CORVALLIS, Ore. — Tres Tinkle scored 19 points to lead Oregon State to a 70-57 victory over Oregon in a Pac-12 Conference opener on Sunday night.
Olaf Schaftenaar had 13 points and a career-high eight rebounds, and Gary Payton II added 12 points and six assists for the Beavers (10-2, 1-0 Pac-12), who won their fourth-straight game and broke a four-game skid against the Ducks.
Chris Boucher scored 14 points to lead the Ducks (11-3, 0-1), who had a four-game winning streak snapped. Dillon Brooks added 13 points.
Oregon State outrebounded Oregon 37-32, and limited the Ducks to 35.8 percent shooting, compared to 44.4 percent for the Beavers.
Oregon State led 18-10 after a seven-point run, capped by a Stephen Thompson Jr.’s 3-pointer at the 10:44-mark. At that point, the Ducks had already committed five turnovers, which led to half of the Beavers’ points.
A 10-0 surge put the Beavers up 31-14 with 4:56 remaining in the first half.
Oregon State led 34-19 at the break, and Payton, the team’s top player, hadn’t scored.
The Ducks went on a 12-3 run early in the second half, capped by a Boucher tip-in, to pull to 40-31 with 13:30 left. Oregon never got closer than eight points the rest of the game.
The game was the 345th meeting between the teams, making the Civil War the most-contested matchup in college basketball. The series dates back to 1903 and the Beavers hold a 185-159 edge in the rivalry.
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Oregon: Dillon Brooks, a sophomore, has scored in double figures in nine straight games. . The Ducks have already seen 22 games missed to injury this season, compared to three for the 2014-15 campaign. . Oregon is in the midst of a schedule that includes 23 of 28 games against teams currently in the ESPN top 100.
Oregon State: The Beavers’ 13-day stretch between games was the longest since a 14-day break in 1980. . Entering the game, Oregon State’s second, third and fourth leading scorers were freshmen Tres Tinkle (11.6 points per game), Stephen Thompson Jr. (9.3) and Drew Eubanks (8.5). Thompson finished the game with 10 points and Eubanks had four points and five rebounds.
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