Oregon State shortstop Tyler Inge has taken his academic cheating case to court, filing a petition Friday that seeks review of the school’s ruling that he cheated on chemistry exams this spring and will be academically ineligible for next year.
The 30-page writ of review was filed in Benton County Circuit Court and asks for a stay of Oregon State’s finding of academic misconduct, along with the four zeroes he received on online tests in general chemistry. According to the filing, those penalties would leave him academically ineligible for the 2026-27 school year, after which he could enter the MLB Draft.
Inge’s court filing says he also failed another course this spring quarter, but that a passing grade in general chemistry would have given him the six credit hours needed for NCAA academic eligibility. Through the filing and his appeal letter, he says he had “no prior academic-integrity violations at OSU, his former university (Michigan), or his high school” and no disciplinary history as a player at Oregon State or Michigan.
The school’s case centers on its Proctorio-based testing procedures and the way Inge handled them. Oregon State’s Academic Integrity Violation Report, which is referenced in the filing but not included among the exhibits, alleges repeated problems such as “inadequate room scans, failure to display permitted materials, restrictive camera positioning, rapid completion times, frequent downward glances, and the detection of an iPhone microphone.”
Inge’s attorney, Tara Davis of New York-based Nesenoff & Miltenberg, pushed back hard on that interpretation. “Those observations could support an allegation that (Inge) did not comply fully with a proctoring instruction, they did not establish that (Inge) received unauthorized assistance or accessed or used unauthorized materials,” Davis writes.
“... A possibility or suspicion does not satisfy the preponderance-of-the-evidence standard.”
In a July 6 letter, OSU associate dean of academic and student affairs Jessica Siegel laid out the school’s reasoning for the cheating finding. She wrote that each exam “repeatedly” required a room scan and the display of work materials, which Inge did not do, and said he finished the first test in six minutes while the class average was 41 minutes.
“Coupled with the lack of room scanning and the camera angle up at the chin, the evidence suggests cheating took place,” Siegel wrote to Inge.
Siegel also told him he could replace the failing grade by retaking the course, which was offered online this summer. The filing does not say whether Inge took that route.
Inge’s petition argues the punishment was “arbitrary and capricious” and too harsh, pointing in part to what he says happened to two teammates who “were found to have used ChatGPT to complete academic papers” but received lesser sanctions.
His July 10 appeal also says Oregon State violated its own Code of Student conduct in the process. Among the claims: the school did not give him video evidence before or during his June 30 academic integrity conference with Siegel, the meeting came less than 24 hours after he got the written report, and his first three chemistry exams were only revisited after his final exam was examined.
Inge also says he was diagnosed with anxiety in February and prescribed propranolol, which he describes as “relevant context for physical behaviors” that were flagged during the online tests. He asked for his earlier exam scores from the first three tests to be restored, for any punishment to apply only to the final exam, and said he would complete any academic integrity educational activity assigned.
OSU associate vice provost of undergraduate education Steve Wuhs issued the school’s final decision on August 13, upholding the academic sanctions.
Inge, the son of former Major Leaguer Brandon Inge, hit .277 with 17 RBIs in 49 games and made 40 starts for the Beavers last season. He is expected back as Oregon State’s starting shortstop, even with Fullerton College’s Diego Vazquez and Linn-Benton CC transfer Bryant Starr also added at the position this offseason.
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