Oregon State third baseman Trent Caraway (44) rounds second base after a home run against USC on Monday, June 2. Courtesy photo: Emma Calimag-Sisson

The No. 8 Oregon State baseball team (48-15-1) will be facing elimination for the sixth time this postseason, falling 6-2 to No. 13 Coastal Carolina (55-11) at the 2025 Men’s College World Series on Sunday, June 15.

The Beavers will face Louisville (41-23) for the second time in Omaha at 11 a.m. on Tuesday, June 17 in an elimination game. Oregon State faced the Cardinals on Friday, picking up a 4-3 win thanks to Beavers outfielder Gavin Turley’s walk-off double in the ninth inning that scored shortstop Aiva Arquette.

OSU is 5-0 this postseason in elimination game, winning four games in the Corvallis Regional and then winning a deciding Game 3 in the Super Regionals over Florida State at Goss Stadium.

Coastal Carolina’s win marked its 25th-straight victory, with head coach Kevin Schnall’s squad undefeated since April 22. The Chanticleers’ next action will come at 11 a.m. on Wednesday, June 18, against the winner of Oregon State and Louisville’s Tuesday rematch.

“(We) made a lot of uncharacteristic mistakes,” Beavers head coach Mitch Canham said. “It was just, you know, not clean baseball. And (Coastal) had a good (pitcher) on the bump going. I thought we had eight or nine really hard-hit balls that the wind knocked down, but thats part of the game, too. They dealt with it, so did we.

“The beauty is, I trust these guys to go out and take the path that we’ve chosen to take all year and battle through the other side of the bracket.”

While Oregon State out-hit Coastal Carolina 7-5, Chanticleers starting pitcher Logan Morrison (12-0) dominated the Beavers.

The Sun Belt Conference’s Pitcher of the Year allowed just five hits and one run — a solo homer by Beavers outfielder Easton Talt to lead off the third inning — in 7.2 innings of work Sunday night, earning the win.

After Talt’s blast, the redshirt sophomore right-hander retired 16-straight batters, working from the third to the eighth inning without surrendering a hit or walk and racking up seven strikeouts. Eighth-inning singles from Oregon State centerfielder Canon Reeder and third baseman Trent Caraway broke up the streak and, after 109 pitches, ended Morrison’s day.

“(Morrison) was mixing well,” Talt said. “(He was) hitting spots (and) had a lot of confidence, too, but was just mixing (his pitches) really well.”

Morrison’s outing was his 10th this season working six-or-more innings and allowing one run or less. He joins former LSU right-hander and No. 1-overall draft pick Paul Skenes (who had 12 such games) as the only two Division I starters to accomplish the feat in the last five years.

Beavers’ left-handed sophomore Ethan Kleinschmit (8-5) took the loss, with Coastal Carolina’s offense jumping out to a 3-0 lead in the first inning. Kleinschmit allowed just one hit in that first frame, a bases-clearing double, after an error on Arquette, a walk and a hit-by-pitch loaded the bases for the Chanticleers.

All six of Coastal’s runs in the game came against Kleinschmit, only two of which were earned. Right-handed relievers Zach Kmatz (1 IP, 2 H, 2 BB, 2 K), Laif Palmer (1.1 IP, 1 K) and Zach Edwards (2.0 IP, 1 BB, 3 K) combined for 4.1 scoreless innings of relief.

Coastal Carolina’s left-handed reliever Hayden Johnson (1 IP, 1 H, 1 ER, 2 K) let up a ninth-inning solo home run to Turley as well as a single to second baseman AJ Singer and a walk to first baseman Jacob Krieg.

The Chanticleers turned to closer Ryan Lynch for the final out, striking out Reeder to end it and earn his ninth save of the season.

Oregon State will face Louisville at 11 a.m. on Tuesday, June 17, for a win-or-go-home matchup at Charles Schwab Stadium in Omaha.

“What a great opportunity we have to go out and fight,” Canham said. “Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, if we do our job and we play together as a family — like I know we can — we’re going to play Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. And then jump in the championship series. And, at that point, it’s all about getting hot. We’ve still got air, we’re still in it.”