The Oregon State baseball team has collected a little individual hardware since it clinched a berth to the College World Series.
Three Beavers have earned All-American accolades this week, as multiple college baseball organizations have recognized the team’s season-long success.
Aiva Arquette has been named a Second Team All-American and Third Team All-American by Perfect Game and the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association, respectively. Gavin Turley has earned Second Team All-American honors from the NCBWA. And Dax Whitney has been honored as a First Team Freshman All-American by Perfect Game.
Whitney and Arquette also were named Second Team All-Region selections by the American Baseball Coaches Association.
Arquette and Turley have fueled the Beavers’ powerful offense all season, providing both consistency and monster production while hitting back-to-back in the heart of the batting order. Arquette, a junior shortstop who transferred from Washington last offseason, leads the Beavers in batting average (.354) and doubles (17), while ranking second on the team in home runs (18) and RBIs (65). The impressive statistics have come as he’s also played sensational defense up the middle, producing a .982 fielding percentage.
Arquette, who is widely considered one of the top prospects in the 2025 MLB draft — perhaps even a No. 1 overall selection — is a finalist for the Brooks Wallace Award, given annually to the nation’s best college shortstop.
Turley, meanwhile, has produced his finest individual season in what has been a record-setting three-year career at Oregon State. The junior left fielder leads the Beavers in homers (19) and RBIs (66), while ranking second in batting average (.346). Earlier this season, Turley became the Beavers’ Home Run King and career leader in RBIs, and he’s considered a top 100 prospect in the MLB draft.
But while Turley and Arquette are seemingly nearing the end of their college careers, Whitney is only starting his. The player dubbed a “freshman phenom” since he stepped foot on campus has backed up the widely-held notion that he’s a budding superstar with Big League talent.
The 6-foot-5 right-hander used four dominant pitches — including a 98 mph fastball — to go 6-3 with a 3.66 ERA and 111 strikeouts in 71 1/3 innings as the team’s Saturday night starter.
He’s the first Oregon State freshman to be named an All-American since Turley (2023) and the first pitcher since Ryan Brown and Jacob Kmatz (2022).
— Joe Freeman | jfreeman@oregonian.com | 503-294-5183 | @BlazerFreeman | @freemanjoe.bsky.social
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