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A pair of schools known as “OSU”, the defending national champions, and the two programs that make up the matchup known as Bedlam made our list of the week’s top performances.
A series win over a consensus Top-5 team gave Kentucky major brownie points, while James Madison’s offense started clicking against a team whose hitting had made headlines, but went cold against the conference’s best pitching.
With congratulations issued to Lehigh’s Fran Troyan and Liberty head coach Dot Richardson on their 800th and 200th career win, respectively, let’s take a closer look at some of the aforementioned performances that set the table and led the way on the scoreboard this weekend…
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Oregon State Beavers
The Beavers earned a series sweep in a Civil War battle on the diamond for the first time in more than a decade, putting the finishing touches on a three-game sweep over Oregon with a victory in a back-and-forth series finale on Sunday.
The Beavers doubled their conference win total with the trio of victories over their in-state archrivals, opening the series with an 8-0 shutout win and outlasting a pair of offensive battles in games two and three of the series.
Laura Berg’s squad posted 14 extra base hits in the series, including a trio of doubles from freshman Maia Rader, who hit .750 with four RBI against the Ducks and Shelby Weeks, who had three hits, three RBI and scored three times for the Beavers.
Oklahoma State Cowgirls
Samantha Show’s mammoth home run and subsequent bat flip made headlines, but lost amidst that fervor was the impressiveness of the Cowgirls’ series sweep over Texas Tech.
With each of the weekend’s three games decided by a single run, the Cowgirls had to come from behind in each one to record the win.
In game two of the series, down by a 7-0 deficit, the Cowgirls scored eight unanswered runs to take the 8-7 final, with a 6th-inning RBI single the difference maker.
Show, for her part, was solid both at the plate and in the circle, batting .500 in the series with two home runs, five RBI, and five walks, while recording 14.0 innings in the circle, scattering thirteen hits and six runs, striking out eight, en route to a 2-0 record on the weekend.
