Oregon State finds themselves right where we so often find so many Beaver, and other conference teams for that matter, as they head into a big weekend (4 games in 5 days), and a the stretch run of the Pac-12 baseball season, right smack in the middle of what could soon enough be dog-eat-dog conference slug out.
At more or less the mid-way point in the Pac-12 race (the Beavers and 5 other Pac-12 teams are 15 games through the conference schedule, with 5 other teams at 18 games played, but still with a non-conference weekend to go), 10th ranked Oregon State (26-10, 8-7) sits in 4th place, but just 1 game behind conference co-leaders Utah and Washington, with 24th ranked Arizona, the only other Pac-12 team in the top 25 (and with 20th ranked UCSB, one of only 3 ranked teams in the west), wedged in between.