STANFORD, Calif. – Junior Caelan Koch homered and finished with four RBI to help lead No. 7 Stanford past Oregon State 10-2 in five innings on Saturday at Boyd and Jill Smith Family Stadium.
Junior Regan Krause (6-2) picked up the victory for Stanford (26-3, 4-1 Pac-12), which won its third in a row and secured a Pac-12 series win for the second straight weekend. Stanford's last conference series with back-to-back five inning run-ruled games was in 2019 in the series against Arizona.
Koch went 2-for-2 with a double and a walk, but her three-run blast in the bottom of the third broke the game open with a 6-1 lead.
Senior Kaitlyn Lim went 2-for-3 with a double and two RBI while senior Taylor Gindlesperger also contributed one hit in two trips to the plate with a double and an RBI.
Krause worked five innings, giving up one earned run on three hits, allowing two walks and striking out three. Krause ranks third in the Pac-12 in hits allowed per seven innings.
HOW IT HAPPENED
The Cardinal led 3-0 after the first inning, with Koch's RBI double kicking off the scoring. Stanford plated two more runs following a wild pitch and fielder's choice.
The Beavers narrowed the lead to 3-1 in the second, but the Cardinal answered with five runs in the third. After Koch belted a three-run shot, Lim scored when Gindlesperger was hit by a pitch and Emily Schultz came around to score on a wild pitch.
Oregon State added another run in the fourth before the Cardinal stretched the advantage to 10-2 in the fourth inning. Stanford added two runs, punctuated by Lim's double to left center.
Stanford will aim for a series sweep in the finale on Sunday, March 26, at 12 p.m.
GAME NOTES
» The Cardinal out-hit the Beavers at a 9-3 clip.
» Stanford went 3-for-9 (.333) with runners in scoring position.
» Krause limited Oregon State to just 1-for-5 (.200) with runners in scoring position.
» Krause faced 22 Oregon State hitters in the game, allowing eight ground balls and four fly balls while striking out three.