Andy Jarvis doubled, homered and drove in four runs to lead Oregon State past Portland 11-1 in non-league baseball Tuesday afternoon at Goss Stadium at Coleman Field. The Beavers (18-10 overall, 2-1 Pacific-10) won their third straight game and have won 14 of their past 18, while the Pilots (11-15, 5-4 West Coast) had a three-game winning streak snapped.
Against Portland, five Oregon State pitchers combined to throw a five-hitter. Junior righthander Joshua Garcia went the first three innings to earn his first win as a Beaver as the OSU quintet combined to walk two and strike out nine. In the last three games, Oregon State pitchers have allowed just two runs on 16 hits over 27 innings.
At the plate, OSU knocked out 11 hits, with five of those going for extra bases. Jarvis extended his hitting streak to 10 games as he went 3-for-5 with his homer, double and four runs batted in. Also for Oregon State, Will Hudson was 2-for-4 with a triple and three RBIs; Tom Creighton was 2-for-4 with a triple; and Chris Biles had a two-run homer in the first inning that put the Beavers in front for good.
Portland took the lead with an unearned run in the top of the first inning. But in the bottom of the first, Pilot righthander Brule Speck then walked Brian Barden with two outs and Biles followed with a drive over the rightfield fence for his fifth homer of the year and a 2-1 lead.
Oregon State made it 5-1 in the second inning with three more two-out runs. With runners at first and third, Hudson lined a ball into the rightfield corner for a two-run triple, then scored on a throwing error on the play. Creighton tripled in the fourth inning and scored on Hudson's infield single for a 6-1 lead. With the two triples on Tuesday, OSU now has 15 for the season; that matches the Beavers' total from all of last year.
Jarvis' homer to right in the bottom of the fifth inning - the big first baseman's fourth homer of the year - put the score at 7-1. The Beavers tacked on another run in the seventh, then Jarvis poked a two-out, bases-loaded double to left-center in the eighth inning to plate OSU's final three runs and make it 11-1.
Meanwhile, Garcia and Don Stykel combined to hold the Pilots hitless from the second through sixth innings, retiring 13 of 14 hitters at one point. Ekstrom struck out two of the three hitters he faced in the seventh inning, then Postlewait struck out the side in the ninth to wrap up the win.
For Portland, Brock Griffin was 2-for-3. The Pilots also got hits from Cory Lunde, Matt Allen and Matt Hollod.
