Oregon baseball takes midweek series with St. Mary's College with 8-1 win

USA Today

08-05-2025

Oregon baseball takes midweek series with St. Mary's College with 8-1 win
During the stretch run of the season, you want your team to be playing their best as the postseason is right around the corner.
Oregon is one of those teams.
The Ducks just won their fourth straight game, sweeping St. Mary's College in a brief two-game series with an 8-1 win over the Gaels. Oregon is now 35-13 overall with just six regular-season games left.
After a close Game 1 victory, the Ducks left no doubt in the series finals over the Gaels. Oregon cracked the scoreboard in the third inning with a Jacob Walsh fielder's choice and a sacrifice fly from Drew Smith to make it 2-0.
It remained 2-1 until the bottom of the sixth inning, when the Ducks scored six runs to blow the game open. Chase Meggers started the fireworks with a simple ground ball to first base, where he beat out the throw. Ryan Cooney and Carter Garate both scored on the infield hit to make it 4-1. The throw to get Carate went to the backstop and everybody advanced a base.
Smith walked to force in a run to make it 5-1, and then Maddox Molony smacked a left-center to score two more runs to make it 7-1. The scoring barrage ended with Parker Stinson's liner to right field.
On the mound, Ryan Featherston had his best outing of the season in relief. He threw 3 1/3 innings, giving up just one run on two hits and struck out three. Julien Hernandex started the game and went three innings of his own and struck out five.
Oregon will now host Washington for a Big Ten three-game set, the last series at PK Park for the regular season.