The SIUE transfer led all scorers with 23 points in the victory.
Oregon State tipped off the season and kept Wayne Tinkle's undefeated streak in season openers alive on Monday night with an 80-57 victory over Western Athletic Conference squad Utah Tech at Gill Coliseum. Four players scored in double figures for the Beavers, including SIU-Edwardsville transfer and leading scorerParsa FallahMichael Rataj
, who had 15 on 6-of-12. The offensive effort was roughly equal in both halves, but where Oregon State made the difference was on the defensive end. The Beavers held just a seven-point lead going into the break against the Trailblazers at 38-31, but a lockdown defensive effort in the back end of the second half, specifically over the last nine minutes where Utah Tech didn't get a single field goal, was the reason the game was so lopsided in its result. Looking at the final score doesn't paint a perfect picture of how the game went, however.
It got scary for the Beavers eight minutes into the second period. The Trailblazers temporarily took the lead with 12 minutes left at 48-47, but Oregon State finished the game on a 33-9 run after that point, a stretch in which they completely shut down the Utah Tech offense. The Trailblazers went 1-for-12 to end the game, while Oregon State finished by hitting 6-of-8., who had 14 points on 5-of-11 shooting, including 2-of-6 from beyond the arc.
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