The 2011 Oregon State Beavers baseball team represented

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in the

2011 NCAA Division I baseball season The 2011 NCAA Division I baseball season, play of college baseball in the United States organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) at the Division I (NCAA), Division I level, began on February 18, 2011. The season progress ...

. The team participated in the

Pacific-10 Conference The Pac-12 Conference is a collegiate athletic conference, that operates in the Western United States, participating in 24 sports at the NCAA Division I level. Its football teams compete in the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS; formerly Division ...

. They were coached by Pat Casey and assistant coaches Marty Lees, Pat Bailey, and Nate Yeskie. They played their home games in

Goss Stadium at Coleman Field Goss Stadium at Coleman Field is a college baseball park in the northwest United States, on the campus of Oregon State University in Corvallis, Oregon. It is home to the Oregon State Beavers of the Pac-12 Conference. Through the 2014 se ...

. The Beavers finished the season with a 41–19 overall record, and came in third in the Pacific-10 Conference Championship with 17 wins and 10 losses. The team was selected to host a Regional in the

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, and as such were seeded #1 in the Corvallis Regional. The Beavers won all three of their games in the Corvallis Regional and went on to play the #6 national seed Vanderbilt in the Nashville Super Regional, where they lost in 2 games.

Previous season

Oregon State finished the 2010 regular season as the #8 team in the

, and lost to the

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in the Gainesville Regional. Many players returned from last year's team to play for the 2011 team.

Highlights

*The pitching staff finished the season with a team ERA of 3.14 in 2011, which is the lowest since 2005 and the second-lowest since 1979. *Six pitchers were selected in the first nine rounds of the Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft, the most ever in Beavers' history.

Schedule

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, , No. 26 , , Goss Stadium at Coleman Field • Corvallis, Oregon , , W 6–3 , , 17–5 , , – , - align="center" bgcolor="#ddffdd" , 23 , , March 26 , , UC Santa Barbara , , No. 26 , , Goss Stadium at Coleman Field • Corvallis, Oregon , , W 11–5 , , 18–5 , , – , - align="center" bgcolor="#ffdddd" , 24 , , March 27 , , UC Santa Barbara , , No. 26 , , Goss Stadium at Coleman Field • Corvallis, Oregon , , L 3–8 , , 18–6 , , – , - , - align="center" bgcolor="#ffdddd" , 25 , , April 1 , , at No. 17

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, , W 7–5 , , 31–8 , , 11–2 , - align="center" bgcolor="#ddffdd" , 40 , , April 30 , , at No. 13 UCLA , , No. 6 , , Jackie Robinson Stadium • Los Angeles, California , , W 2–0 , , 32–8 , , 12–2 , - , - align="center" bgcolor="#ffdddd" , 41 , , May 1 , , at No. 13 UCLA , , No. 6 , , Jackie Robinson Stadium • Los Angeles, California , , L 2–5 , , 32–9 , , 12–3 , - align="center" bgcolor="#ffdddd" , 42 , , May 3 , , Oregon , , No. 4 , , Goss Stadium at Coleman Field • Corvallis, Oregon , , L 2–7 , , 32–10 , , – , - align="center" bgcolor="#ddffdd" , 43 , , May 7 , , No. 24

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, , No. 2 , , Goss Stadium at Coleman Field • Corvallis, Oregon , , W 7–2 , , 38–12 , , 17–5 , - align="center" bgcolor="#ffdddd" , 51 , , May 21 , , USC , , No. 2 , , Goss Stadium at Coleman Field • Corvallis, Oregon , , L 3–8 , , 38–13 , , 17–6 , - align="center" bgcolor="#ffdddd" , 52 , , May 22 , , USC , , No. 2 , , Goss Stadium at Coleman Field • Corvallis, Oregon , , L 3–4 , , 38–14 , , 17–7 , - align="center" bgcolor="#ffdddd" , 53 , , May 27 , , at Oregon , , No. 6 , ,

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, , L 1–4 , , 38–15 , , 17–8 , - align="center" bgcolor="#ffdddd" , 54 , , May 28 , , at Oregon , , No. 6 , , PK Park • Eugene, Oregon , , L 1–4 , , 38–16 , , 17–9 , - align="center" bgcolor="#ffdddd" , 55 , , May 29 , , at Oregon , , No. 6 , , PK Park • Eugene, Oregon , , L 0–6 , , 38–17 , , 17–10 , - , - , - ! style="" , Postseason (3–2) , - valign="top" , - align="center" bgcolor="#ddffdd" , 56 , , June 3 , , , , (1) No. 13 , , , , , , 39–17 , , 1–0 , - align="center" bgcolor="#ddffdd" , 57 , , June 4 , , (2) No. 25 Creighton , , (1) No. 13 , , Goss Stadium at Coleman Field • Corvallis, Oregon , , W 5–1 , , 40–17 , , 2–0 , - align="center" bgcolor="#ddffdd" , 58 , , , , (3)

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