Beavers blank Bears twice for Series spot.Byline: From Register-Guard and news service reports REGIONAL ROUNDUP CORVALLIS - Brianne McGowan allowed only two hits and Vanessa Iapala's sacrifice fly in the first inning held up as Oregon State defeated California 1-0 Sunday to advance to the NCAA NCAA abbr. National Collegiate Athletic Association Women's College World Series The Women's College World Series (WCWS) is the final portion of the NCAA Women's Softball Tournament for college softball in the United States. The tournament is conducted in an eight-team, double-elimination format. . The seventh-ranked Beavers (43-14) are among eight teams who will play for the national championship in Oklahoma City Oklahoma City (1990 pop. 444,719), state capital, and seat of Oklahoma co., central Okla., on the North Canadian River; inc. 1890. The state's largest city, it is an important livestock market, a wholesale, distribution, industrial, and financial center, and a farm . Oregon State will open with No. 3 Arizona (49-10) on Thursday. The sixth-ranked Bears (48-14) opened the Super Regional with a 2-1 victory over the Beavers on Friday, and after heavy rain Saturday postponed the event, the Beavers took both games on Sunday. ``All year the team has had the confidence to come back,'' McGowan said. ``Even if we were down by three or four runs, it doesn't really matter because we know we have the ability to come back.'' The loss snapped Cal's streak of seven straight trips to the World Series. ``It was great to see these athletes take hold of a goal and go for it,'' Beavers coach Kirk Walker. ``They were absolutely determined, it was going to be everything we had and go to Oklahoma City - it was just phenomenal.'' McGowan (29-7) had a no-hitter until a one-out single by Chloe Kloezman in the top of the fifth. The Bears put runners on base in both the sixth and seventh. McGowan struck out nine in her second shutout of the day and 10th of the season. Kristina Thorson (36-10) allowed the one run on six hits with eight strikeouts. In the opening game, Mia Longfellow had three hits and drove in a run as Oregon State defeated Cal 3-0. Oregon State jumped out to a 2-0 lead on RBI RBI abbr. Baseball runs batted in Noun 1. rbi - a run that is the result of the batter's performance; "he had more than 100 rbi last season" run batted in singles from Lisa Allen and Iapala in the first inning. McGowan allowed six hits in the complete game shutout. She struck out eight. Oregon State to host baseball regional event CORVALLIS - Oregon State lost 3-1 to UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX in its final game of the regular season Sunday. The day wasn't a total loss for the Beavers, who found out they will host one of 16 NCAA Regional tournaments that start Friday. The field and pairings will be announced at 9:30 a.m. today on ESPN ESPN Entertainment and Sports Programming Network . Chris Kunda doubled twice Sunday for the Pac-10 champion Beavers, who closed the regular season 39-14 overall and 16-7 in conference games. General admission tickets for the regional go on sale at 8:30 a.m. today at www.osubeavers.com. Reserved tickets and any remaining general admission tickets go on sale at 8:30 a.m. Tuesday online, by phone at (541) 737-4455 or 1-800-GO-BEAVS, or in person at the OSU (Open Source UNIX) Refers to the Unix variants that are maintained as open source, which were primarily BSD Unix and Linux until Sun made its Solaris operating system open source in 2005. athletic ticket office in Gill Coliseum Groundbreaking for the Gill Coliseum Annex project is scheduled for March, with a completion date of early 2008. The Annex will be located between Gill Coliseum and the Tommy Prothro Football Complex. . All tickets sold in advance will be on a full-tournament basis at $90 for reserved seats, $60 for adult general admission and $48 for student general admission. Single-game tickets will not be available until the day of the game. Lower Columbia bounces Lane from tournament LONGVIEW, Wash. - Lane (24-20) was eliminated from the Northwest Athletic Association of Community Colleges The Northwest Athletic Association of Community Colleges commonly called the NWAACC (pronounced N-Wack)is a sports association for Community Colleges in the states Washington, Oregon, Idaho and British Columbia. baseball tournament Sunday after a 10-0 loss to Lower Columbia. Cort Carpenter hit two home runs, and Oregon State signee sign·ee n. One who has signed a document, such as a contract or petition. Josh Keller and Kyle Beitey combined on a three-hitter for Lower Columbia. CAPTION(S): Oregon State players celebrate after the 1-0 victory that gave them a spot in the Women's College World Series. |
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