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Oregon advanced to the NCAA Softball Super Regional next week after winning the Eugene Regional Saturday, 6-1, over North Dakota State. The Ducks (49-6)
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The Oregon men and women’s track and field teams pulled together to sweep the Pac-12 Championships for seventh-straight season, Sunday at Drake Stadium on the campus of UCLA. The men’s team finished with 152 points for conference record ninth-straight title, 31 ahead of second place USC while the women’s team edged out the Trojans by three points, 185-182. The meet had its fair share of drama as both the Men and Women of Troy, who entered the meet with No. 5 and No. 2 rankings by the USTFCCCA, surged to temporary leads late in the day after the running of the 200 meters, where USC scored big points. The Ducks however, had too much firepower in too many different events and responded with the men scoring in the triple jump, discus, 5,000 and 4×400 to regain the lead while women had enough left with nine points in the 5,000 and eight more in the 4×400. The men’s team race was not decided until the second-to-last race on the track when the men’s distance crew slammed the door with a dominating performance in the men’s 5,000. The women, however, came down to the wire as Oregon needed a third-place finish in the 4×400 and did one better, finishing second. Next up for the Ducks will be the NCAA West Preliminary Round in Austin, Texas, May 28-30 before the NCAA Championships in Eugene, June 10-13.
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The Oregon baseball team swept a Pac-12 series for the first time this season by beating Utah 5-1 on Sunday, and the Ducks’ timing couldn’t have been better. It was the team’s sixth straight win, with a spot in the postseason possibly on the line given a strong final week to the regular season. The Ducks entered the final month of the regular season knowing they needed to pad both their win total and their RPI in order to get onto the postseason bubble, and they’ve gone 9-3 so far in May. They entered Sunday with an RPI of 72 according to d1baseball.com, and can improve that with four games against ranked opponents in the final week of the regular season. The Ducks (34-22, 14-13) play a nonconference game at No. 23 Oregon State on Tuesday, then return home to close out the regular season with a three-game series against No. 2 UCLA at PK Park beginning Friday.
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Gabe Clark homered, KJ Harrison drove in two and Joe Gillette had three hits as No. 19 Oregon State defeated Stanford, 12-3, Sunday afternoon at Sunken Diamond. The win gave the Beavers a sweep of the Cardinal and pushed Oregon State’s record to 36-14-1 overall and 17-9-1 in Pac-12 Conference play. The sweep is the Beavers’ third straight over the Cardinal. The win was Oregon State’s 11th straight over Stanford. It also marked the Beavers’ 10th straight at Sunken Diamond dating back to the 2009 season. Oregon State returns home next week and opens with Oregon Tuesday night at Goss Stadium at Coleman Field.