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Host Oregon swept the Pepsi Team Invitational at Hayward Field on Saturday, besting both Kentucky and Washington in a triangular meet before 3,428 fans and a national TV audience watching on Pac-12 Networks. While it’s early in the outdoor season and the Ducks are in the middle of rigorous training, the team fielded most all of its top contenders in both the men’s and women’s competitions. Edward Cheserek and Eric Jenkins led a 1-2 finish in the 5,000 to help the UO men pile up 162 team points, well ahead of both the Huskies (115) and Wildcats (110). On the women’s side, Oregon scored 138 points to best Kentucky (124) and UW (119), with the Ducks getting a strong showing in the middle distances and wins in the field events from the likes of Jenna Prandini in the long jump and Jasmine Todd in the triple jump. “It’s always fun to compete here, jump in front of the crowd and feel a little bit of the Hayward magic,” Prandini said. Hayward Field will host the Oregon Relays beginning Thursday through Saturday, and members of the women’s team will head to the Mt. SAC Relays.
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Junior Kara Hallock won the long jump and both hurdles races with top-10 all-time marks in every event on Friday to lead the Oregon State track & field team at the John Knight Twilight Meet at Western Oregon. A transfer from Lane Community College who graduated from Lebanon High School, Hallock soared 19 feet, 5.25 inches in the long jump to move into third place all-time in that event. It was a season-best by more than nine inches, and led a 1-3-4-5 OSU finish in that event. Hallock shaved .01 seconds off her season PR in winning the 100 hurdles in 14:33, the fifth-fastest time in OSU history. It’s the third time this spring she’s set or lowered her No. 5 all-time mark. It was also a meet record. She later captured the 400 hurdles in 1:02.46, the 10th-best time in school history and a season-best by more than a full second. The meet was also scored as a dual with Portland State, the other Division I participant, and OSU prevailed 91-54 to improve to 3-0 this spring. It also has wins over Utah and Portland. OSU’s next competition is the Oregon Relays, set for April 16-18 at Hayward Field.
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Oregon won in dramatic fashion for the second time in three days Sunday, beating Oregon State 10-9 at PK Park to claim the three-game Civil War series with the Beavers. After early outbursts by each offense, resulting in a 9-9 score after four innings, the pitchers settled down and the game remained tied into the eighth. With one out in the bottom half of the inning, Oregon’s Jakob Goldfarb walked, advanced to second on an error and scored on a single by Phil Craig-St. Louis. That made a winner of UO reliever Josh Graham (2-0), who allowed one earned run over six innings, by far his longest outing of the season. The Ducks (21-16, 4-8 Pac-12) trailed early, as the Beavers scored three times in the second and six in the third, when they chased UO starter Conor Harber and got to Graham before he settled in. Oregon answered OSU’s second-inning runs with an RBI single by Tim Susnara and a two-run single by Goldfarb to tie it 3-3, and the Ducks got within three in the third on Scott Heineman’s RBI double and a two-run home run by Brandon Cuddy. The Ducks play Wednesday at Portland before resuming Pac-12 play Friday at USC.
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A day after wrapping up its first series win over Arizona State since 2005, the second-ranked Oregon softball team completed its first sweep of the No. 19 Sun Devils since 1989 by winning 4-3 on Sunday before 1,138 at Howe Field. How It Happened: After winning by a combined 19-3 over the first two games, the Ducks (35-5, 13-2 Pac-12) found the going a bit tougher in the finale. But first, Oregon used four walks and a groundball out to score twice without the benefit of a hit in the first inning. The Ducks then tacked on two more in the second on a home run by Lauren Lindvall and a sacrifice fly by Jenna Lilley that scored Alyssa Gillespie. The Ducks face Portland State in a doubleheader Tuesday in Hillsboro, before resuming conference play Saturday at Stanford (3:30 p.m., Pac-12 Networks).
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Mikela Manewa hit her fifth home run of the season Sunday afternoon, but the Oregon State softball team (23-17, 4-11) dropped the series finale to the Utah Utes (29-14, 7-8) by a final score of 5-2. The Utes scored in the top of the first, putting four hits together to take a 2-0 lead. The Beavers will return to the field next week when they travel to Tempe, Ariz. to face the No. 19 Arizona State Sun Devils.