THE GAMES: The Oregon State men’s soccer team will return to Paul Lorenz Field on Wednesday to take on Sacramento State. The Beavers will follow that up by making a trip to Utah Valley on Saturday.<\/p>\n
FOLLOW ALONG: Wednesday’s game will be available live on the Pac-12 YouTube Channel. Saturday’s game will be carried on ESPN+. Live stats will be available at OSUBeavers.com.<\/p>\n
UP NEXT: Oregon State will close out the regular season Oct. 31 when Gozaga visits Paul Lorenz Field.<\/p>\n
Quick Hitters: The Staff: The Matchups:
\n– Oregon State will honor Wyatt Borso<\/a>, Paul Fecteau<\/a>, Diego Rodriguez<\/a>, Orial Vidal, Mark Wieder<\/a> and Jacob Zapien<\/a> in a postgame Senior Day ceremony.
\n– The Beavers enter this week tied with Cal Baptist for first place in the Pac-12
\n– Oregon State leads the Pac-12 in total goals and total assists.
\n– The Beavers have scored three goals or more in eight of their 14 matches this season.
\n– Wyatt Borso<\/a> leads the Pac-12 and is fourth in the nation with 10 goals this season.
\n– Oliver Hernandez Parra<\/a> leads the Pac-12 in assists, while, Michael Nesci<\/a> and Gavin Wolff<\/a> are all tied for third.
\n– Twenty-two of the Beavers’ 31 goals this season have come from transfers or freshmen (including redshirt freshman Max Eisenberg<\/a>).
\n– Oregon State was picked to finish first in the Pac-12 Preseason poll.
\n– Jacob Zapien<\/a>, Wyatt Borso<\/a> and Aidan Marquez<\/a> were named to the Pac-12 Impact List
\n– Oregon State’s squad features 16 newcomers this season.
\n– Fourteen Beavers have been selected in the last nine MLS SuperDrafts, including seven selections over the last three years.
\n– Oregon State will play just seven home games during the 2026 campaign.
\n– This season will mark the return of Oregon State to the Pac-12 conference. As part of a the Pac-12 – Big West soccer partnership, Cal Baptist, Cal Poly, UC Riverside and UC San Diego will join Oregon State, Gonzaga and San Diego State in the Pac-12 for men’s soccer. The Beavers will also play three “Big West Crossover” matches as part of this arrangement, facing Sacramento State, Cal State Bakersfield and Utah Valley.
\n– The Beavers have made six-straight NCAA Tournaments<\/p>\n
\n– Jarred Brookins took over as Wicks-Street Oregon State head men’s soccer coach prior to the 2025 season, leading the team to the Tournament in his first campaign. Brookins served as an assistant for the Beavers during the 2023-24 seasons, helping the team to two of the most successful campaigns in program history, including the team’s first ever College Cup run in his debut season with the squad.
\n– Prior to Oregon State, Brookins also served as an assistant at Davidson and Mercer.
\n– Judy and Jim Street made a leadership gift to the OSU Foundation in November that created a permanent endowment for the Oregon State Wicks-Street Head Men’s Soccer Coach.
\n– Matt Bersano joined the Oregon State staff prior to the 2025 season, following a nine-year professional career – primarily in MLS. Bersano played goalkeeper at Oregon State from 2011-14.
\n– Michael Behonick is in his first season with the Beavers, and brings a wealth of experience. Most recently he served as head coach of Western Oregon and has also been an assistant coach at Penn State and Virginia.
\n– Oscar Zepeda is in his first season Director of Operations.<\/p>\n
\n– Oregon State is 13-3-2 all-time against Sacramento State. The two teams have not met since 2018
\n– The Beavers have faced Utah Valley on three occasions, earning two wins and a draw.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"THE GAMES: The Oregon State men’s soccer team will return to Paul Lorenz Field on Wednesday to take…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":501464,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122],"class_list":["post-501463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=501463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/501464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}