Oregon State ace pitcher Luke Heimlich, on the eve of the start of the NCAA baseball tournament super regionals, has been identified as a registered sex offender by The Oregonian.
According to the paper, Heimlich, 21, had to register as a sex offender after arriving at the university, stemming from a guilty plea in 2012, when he admitted to sexually molesting a 6-year-old female family member in Puyallup, Washington, when he was 15 years old.
The Oregonian, while doing a routine background check on Heimlich for a feature story, discovered Heimlich was cited for failing to update his sex offender registration status in April.