Expectations are high for this year’s Oregon State Baseball team, starting the season ranked eleventh nationally and projected to finish second in the Pac-12. They quickly established their bona fides down in Surprise, Arizona, obliterating the New Mexico Lobos 21-1 in their first game of the season.
After starter Cooper Hjerpe put down the Lobos three up three down in the first, New Mexico broke through in the top of the second. Hjerpe walked a pair of batters, and then a Willie Cano single gave the Lobos the first run of the day. And their last.