Oregon State Beavers Women's Basketball News

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Junior shortstop Liz Santana makes a throw against UCLA on Saturday. Santana has accumulated a .309 batting average and .423 on base percentage this season.

Oregon State celebrates against No. 15 UCLA on Saturday. The Beavers dropped two of three against the Bruins over the weekend, but still qualified for the playoffs on Sunday night.

The Oregon State University baseball team maintained its slim lead over Oregon in the tight Pac-12 race by sweeping three straight games at Stanford over the weekend.

Rick Lund is a news presentation editor at The Seattle Times. He was the paper's assistant sports editor from 2001-2006. Marv Harshman's University of Washington men's basketball program was going through a rare lean period, and his old Northwest coaching nemesis didn't have much sympathy.

Sean Martin, 27, cleans out a barrel at Flat Tail Brewery requiring extremely hot water.

Senior left-hander Matt Boyd releases a pitch in Friday's win at Goss Stadium. Boyd struck out a career-high 12 batters.

PORTLAND Senior pitcher Marina Demore won her 19th game of the season while other Beavers climbed the single season charts as the Oregon State softball team took both ends of a doubleheader at Portland State on Tuesday night.

Ahmad Starks drives the lane against Oregon. Starks will transfer from Oregon State to play his senior year closer to his hometown of Chicago.

One of the most closely contested position battles going on this spring is at the heart of the Beaver defense.

No. 5 Oregon State won the third game of a three-game series against last-place Washington, 8-0, on Sunday.