Lewis Complete Game Leads WSU Past Oregon State in NCAA Regional Opener

Friday, May 29

Eugene, Ore.

Noon

Washington State University

31-26

Oregon State

43-13

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Runs R	Hits H	Errors E
Washington State	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	1	0	3	5	0
Oregon State	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	2	6	1

Lewis Complete Game Leads WSU Past Oregon State in NCAA Regional Opener

May 29, 2026 | Baseball

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By: Washington State Athletic Communications

EUGENE, Ore. (May 29, 2026) – Lefthander Nick Lewis fired a complete game to beat Oregon State 3-2 at PK Park in Eugene Friday afternoon.

Washington State (31-26), making its first NCAA Regional appearance since 2010, beat two-seed and seventh-ranked Oregon State and will advance to play the winner of No. 11 national seed Oregon and Yale Saturday at 6 p.m. WSU's 31 wins are the most wins 2010, their last NCAA Regional appearance and the win is the Cougars first NCAA win since beating Arkansas in the 2010 Regional.

Lewis scattered six hits, struck out one and allowed just two earned runs to pick up his tenth win of the season, the most since Matt O'Brien in 2000.

The Cougars received two-hit games from Max Hartman and Matt Priest as Hartman stole a base and scored twice while Priest had an RBI-single. Dustin Robinson broke a 2-2 tied with an eighth-inning RBI-double down the right field line.

Gavin Roy walked twice and scored a run, breaking the school record with his 44^th consecutive game reaching base, breaking Kyle Manzardo's record of 23 (2019-21).

KEY MOMENTS OF THE GAME
In the first, the Cougars put two runners on after a walk and hit-by-pitch but OSU ended the early threat with a groundout. The Beavers took a 1-0 lead after back-to-back one-out doubles.

WSU evened things up with a run in the fourth inning. Hartman was hit by a pitch and one batter later Dustin Robinson was hit by a pitch to put runners on first and second. One a called strike three, Hartman and Robinson both stole and the throw to third was wide and down the left field line, allowing Hartman to score.

Th Beavers answered an inning later with a leadoff off double and late scored after a sacrifice bunt and sacrifice fly to left field for a 2-1 lead.

The Cougars came right back in the sixth inning, Roy worked a leadoff walk to break the WSU on-base record and Hartman muscled a single into right-centerfield. Priest delivered a two-strike RBI-single through the left side, tying the game at 2-2.

In the eighth, Hartman singled through the right side and Priest followed with a single through the left side. With runners on first and second, Robinson won an eight-pitch pitch battle with an RBI-double down inside the first base bag and down the right field line to score Hartman for a 3-2 lead.

In the bottom of the inning, OSU doubled with one out and moved to third on a groundout but Lewis ended the frame with a flyout to right field. Lewis closed things out with a pair of groundouts and fly out to centerfield in the ninth.

INSIDE THE BOX SCORE
Trevor Smith walked in the 1^st to extend his on-base streak to 16 games
Matt Priest was hit by a pitch in the 1^st to extend his on-base streak to 16 games
Gavin Roy walked in the 6^th to extend his on-base streak to 44 games, breaking the school record set by Kyle Manzardo in 2019-21
Matt Priest singled in the 6^th to extend his hitting streak to 16 games
Smith had his 13-game hitting streak snapped
WSU was hit by a pitch 4 times, pushing its WSU single-season record to 113

ON DECK
WSU will play the winner of Oregon and Yale Saturday at 6 p.m.