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Bats Catch Fire in 17-0 Series-Clinching Win Over Fresno State

WSU clinched its fifth-straight series win with a 17-0 victory Saturday.

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PULLMAN, Wash. (May 2, 2026) – Washington State used 17 hits to score a season-high 17 runs in a series-clinching 17-0 victory in front of 1,254 fans at Bailey-Brayton Field Saturday evening.
 
The Cougars (25-21, 13-7 Mountain West) clinch their fifth straight weekend series win for the first time since 1999.
 
Ten Cougars collected hits led by Cam Macleod's three hits including a double, homer and six RBI. Ollie Obenour added three hits, drove in three and scored three runs while Ryan Skjonsby scored three times, Matt Priest had three hits and three runs scored while Max Hartman homered. Kyler Northrop added two hits to extend his hitting streak to 15 games and Gavin Roy added two hits to extend his on-base streak to 33 games, the seventh-longest on-base streak in WSU history.
 
WSU starter Griffin Smith fired six scoreless innings, striking out five and allowed just three hits before Erik Rodriguez worked a scoreless seventh to seal the run-rule win.
 
Fresno State dropped to 12-31-1 overall and 1-15-1 in conference play.
 
KEY MOMENTS OF THE GAME
The Cougars sent 12 men to the plate and used seven hits to score seven runs in the first inning. Matt Priest and Dustin Robinson each singled home a run, Ollie Obenour and Cam Macleod followed with back-to-back two-run doubles before Trevor Smith capped the scoring with an RBI-sacrifice fly.
 
WSU added four more in the second after an Obenour RBI-single and a long three-run homer to left field from Macleod for an 11-0 lead.
 
Trevor Smith had an RBI-single in the fourth before WSU blew things up with five more runs in the fifth. Hartman led off the inning with a solo homer to right field, Skjonsby doubled home a run, Dane Chavez had a pinch-hit two-run double down the left field line and Macleod picked up his sixth RBI of the night with an RBI-groundout.
 
INSIDE THE BOX SCORE
Gavin Roy singled in the 1st to extend his on-base streak to 33 games, the 7th-longest on-base streak in WSU history
Max Hartman was hit by a pitch in the 1st to extend his on-base streak to 13 games
Kyler Northrop singled in the 1st to extend his on-base streak to 28 games and hitting streak to 15 games
 
ON DECK
The series wraps up Sunday at 12:05 p.m.