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Oregon’s men lost 85-77 to Wisconsin in the NCAA basketball tournament at Milwaukee, Wisconsin Saturday. The Ducks end their season at 24-10, while the Badgers advance to the round of “Sweet 16.”
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There was very little Sydney Wiese wanted to say when it was noted that Oregon State won its first NCAA tournament game in nearly 20 years. Wiese spoke plenty with a second-half shooting display that added another benchmark to the revival of the Beavers program. Wiese made six 3-pointers and the freshman scored a career-high 26 points, and ninth-seeded Oregon State stymied eighth-seeded Middle Tennessee State in a 55-36 win in the first round on Sunday. She couldn’t miss for most of the second half and Middle Tennessee had no solutions for stopping her midway through the second half, when she hit five 3s in a six-minute span as the Beavers (24-10) blew the game open. Wiese made 7 of 15 shots, had five rebounds and four assists.
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Arizona State scored four runs in its final two innings to defeat No. 4 Oregon State on Sunday in the rubber game of their Pacific-12 Conference series before a crowd of 2,961 at Goss Stadium. ASU (12-10 overall, 3-3 Pac-12 Conference) took the final two games of the series to hand OSU (19-5, 4-2) its first back-to-back losses since Feb. 21-22, when Oregon State fell to Nebraska and Michigan State in its first two games at the Aramark Pac-12-Big Ten Challenge at Surprise, Ariz. The Beavers then went on a 15-1 tear before losing on Saturday.
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A home run by Shaun Chase lifted Oregon to a series sweep over Utah on Sunday, and lifted the spirits of family a thousand miles away who dodged tragedy 10 days earlier. Chase, a junior catcher from Phoenix, hit a pinch-hit, two-run homer to break a one-all tie and help the UO baseball team to a 3-1 victory over the Utes in PK Park. Watching online from Arizona, as always, was Chase’s father, Russ, who suffered a heart attack on March 13. Chase’s dramatics made a winner of UO starter Jeff Gold for the sixth time in six starts this year, and gave the No. 12 Ducks (17-5, 5-1 Pac-12) their third series sweep of the season.
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On a day when the usually strong Oregon pitching staff was struggling, Alexa Peterson and the Ducks’ bats led the way in a 12-7 win over Utah on Sunday afternoon in a Pac-12 conference game. The No. 3 ranked Ducks (25-3, 2-0 Pac-12) scored 12 runs on a season-high 18 hits with one error while the Utes (11-11, 1-3) tallied seven runs on 12 hits with four errors.
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Freshman Alexis Gonzalez hit her third home run of the season, but the Oregon State softball team could not overcome a powerful Wildcat offense, as No. 7/9 Arizona defeated the Beavers 13-1 Sunday evening in Tucson. Gonzalez’ blast came in the fourth inning, and brought her season total to a team-high 18 RBIs. Freshman Kylie Padilla finished the day 1-for-2, while junior CJ Chirichigno walked, giving her seven bases-on-balls this year. Arizona (27-6, 2-3 Pac-12) opened the scoring with five runs in the first inning, in a frame that was powered by a pair of home runs. The Wildcats would add two more runs on a second-inning home run, before senior Isabelle Batayola made a nice defensive play in right field to end the frame. Junior Ya Garcia made a lunging play to catch a line drive for the first out of the third inning, but the Wildcats still managed to score six runs in the frame to stretch the edge to double-digits. Gonzalez pulled one back for Oregon State (11-16, 2-3) with her long-ball in the fourth frame, but it was not enough to prolong the game, as the contest ended in five innings. The Beavers will close out the series Monday at noon, in a game that will be aired on Pac-12 Networks.
Preview Meet
Former North Bend athlete Sammie Clark won the women’s Pole Vault at the Oregon Preview Meet Saturday in Eugene. Clark cleared 13-7 on her final attempt to take first place with a personal record.