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USA Today
11-05-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
Oregon baseball wins sixth straight game and takes the series with the Huskies
Oregon baseball wins sixth straight game and takes the series with the Huskies Everything is clicking for the Oregon baseball team right now. The Ducks won their sixth straight game, 6-4, against Washington, taking the weekend series over the Huskies. They will go for the sweep on Sunday. At 37-13 overall, it's Oregon's best record through 50 games since it was 39-11 in 2013. This team is attempting to do what that team failed to do 12 years ago: finally make it to Omaha for the first time in program history. Washington jumped on Oregon starter Collin Clarke right away with a two-run first inning, but the Ducks were able to answer in the second with Maddox Molony run-scoring single to left. Clarke settled down and held the Huskies scoreless until his offense could take the lead. That happened in the fourth thanks to some two-out lightning. With two out and none on, the Ducks tied the game after a hit-by-pitch and a single. Carter Garate's infield hit and a Washington throwing error brought Chase Meggers home to tie the game 2-2. Mason Neville then lined a double into the right field corner to give Oregon a 4-2 lead. That lead didn't last long as the Huskies blasted two homers in the fifth inning, and the game was tied once again at 4-4. But Jacob Walsh gave the Ducks the lead once again, this time for good, as he put one in orbit for his 17th home run of the season. Neville added to the lead in the sixth as he got the green light with a 3-0 count and cranked his nation-leading 25th home run on the year. That was all the Oregon bullpen of Santiago Garcia, Cole Stokes, and Seth Maddox needed. Those three combined to throw four innings of no-hit ball. Maddox pitched a perfect ninth to earn his sixth save of 2025. The win for the Ducks kept the team in the hunt for the Big Ten championship. They currently sit 2.5 games behind Iowa, a team Oregon faces for a three-game set next week. But first, Oregon could use a conference series sweep, and they have that chance Sunday afternoon with the first pitch against the Dawgs scheduled for 12:05 pm at PK Park.
USA Today
31-03-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
Oregon baseball drops in polls after series loss at Ohio State
Oregon baseball drops in polls after series loss at Ohio State No team is immune to some adversity throughout their season, and Oregon baseball is feeling its fair share of adversity right now. The Ducks traveled to Columbus this past weekend to face the last-place and winless Ohio State team, but they lost two of three to the Buckeyes. Oregon captured Game 1 of the series 7-0 on the strength of starter Grayson Grinsell and four homers from the Duck bats. The road team was well on its way to another successful series, but then Saturday's doubleheader came along and it was ugly. The Ducks scored a total of 18 runs in the two games, but it wasn't enough as the Buckeyes took Game 1 by the score of 11-10 and the nightcap 8-6 despite having shortstop Maddox Molony belting out four home runs during the twinbill. As a result, Oregon dropped in the polls. It is now No. 15 in the D1Baseball poll and No. 12 in the USA TODAY Coaches poll. The Ducks are still 20-7 overall and 8-4 in Big Ten action. Oregon goes to Portland on Wednesday for a single game before hosting Michigan this weekend for the first time in history.
