After three months, 54 games and a road-heavy independent schedule unlike any other, the Oregon State Beavers ended the 2025 college baseball season right about where they started:
Firmly inside the top 10.
The Beavers on Monday were a near-unanimous top 10 selection in the latest batch of national college baseball polls, which were unveiled two days after the end of the regular season.
Oregon State is ranked No. 7 in D1Baseball Top 25 and USA Today Coaches Poll, No. 8 in the Perfect Game Top 25 and National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association Poll, and No. 11 in the Baseball America Top 25.
The LSU Tigers were the unanimous No. 1 team
The Beavers (41-12-1) opened the season as a unanimous top 10 in all five major college baseball polls, including No. 7 in the D1Baseball poll, which The Oregonian/OregonLive uses for its rankings.
The acclaim comes after a widely successful regular season in which Oregon State reached the 40-win mark for the 13th time in program history, and finished strong, going 9-1-1 in May.
They defeated the Portland Pilots 5-3 in a midweek matchup Tuesday, then swept a three-game series against Long Beach State over the weekend, dismissing the Dirtbags by a combined score of 27-9 at Goss Stadium. After escaping with a 2-1 win in Thursday’s opener, OSU bashed its way to a pair of explosive wins to end the regular season, defeating Long Beach State 12-8 on Friday and earning a 13-0 run-rule win in seven innings on Saturday.
The Beavers battered Dirtbags pitching throughout the series, pounding out 34 hits, including seven home runs and five doubles, as the lineup built a little mojo heading into the postseason. In the finale, nine OSU players recorded at least one hit and seven drove in at least one run, as the Beavers belted two homers and four doubles.
Senior catcher Wilson Weber stayed hot in the series, finishing 5 for 13 with a homer, double, triple, four RBIs and four runs scored. He’s hitting .381 (16 for 42) with six homers, three doubles, 22 RBIs and 11 runs scored in May.
Also, a pair of OSU starters also broke out of slumps. Junior outfielder Easton Talt had three hits in the final two games, ending the regular season by going 2 for 5 with a homer and three RBIs. Heading into Friday, Talt had not recorded a hit since April 21, laboring through a 14-game hitless streak. Trent Caraway, meanwhile, went 4 for 8 with a homer, double and five RBIs in the final two games against the Dirtbags, putting a six-game hitless streak to rest.
Amid all the fireworks, the Beavers’ starting pitching was exceptional, as Eric Segura, Dax Whitney and Ethan Kleinschmit combined to allow just one run and three hits, while striking out 19.
Kleinschmit punctuated the near-perfect weekend by pitching seven shutout innings, during which he allowed one hit and recorded seven strikeouts.
When it was all said and done, the Beavers not only maintained their standing as a top 10 team, but also cemented their status in the RPI, finishing the regular season with a No. 6 ranking.
Now they just have to wait to learn their postseason fate. Teams across the country will play in conference tournaments this week, when OSU will be idle, and the NCAA baseball tournament field will be unveiled next Monday.
Oregon State is a lock to earn a top 16 national seed, which would make Corvallis a host site for a four-team regional when the march to Omaha begins later this month. But the Beavers are on the bubble for a top eight seed and home-field advantage through the super regionals.
— Joe Freeman | jfreeman@oregonian.com | 503-294-5183 | @BlazerFreeman | @freemanjoe.bsky.social | Subscribe to The Oregonian/OregonLive newsletters and podcasts for the latest news and top stories.
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