Keys wins Decathlon
The University of Oregon’s Dakotah Keys, from Sweet Home, won his third-straight Pac-12 decathlon championship, Sunday in Pullman, WA, leading a group of four Ducks at the multi-event championships, each of whom brought home valuable team points. The win for Keys continues the Ducks’ dominance in the event at the conference level, as he and Ashton Eaton have combined to win the decathlon six of the past seven years. The Ducks were successful in that category. The 10 points earned by Keys, combined with third- and fourth-place finishes by Mitch Modin (7,310) and Alec Fellows (7,081), respectively, give Oregon a total of 21 heading into the Pac-12 Championships next week. Those 21 points is the most scored by Oregon in the decathlon since putting up 25 in 2004.
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After dropping the second game of the series last night, the No. 1 ranked Oregon softball team rebounded to take the rubber match at Arizona in impressive fashion, 14-3, in five innings on Saturday afternoon at Hillenbrand Stadium in Tucson, AZ. The Ducks (49-71-1, 20-3-1), who clinched the Pac-12 championship on Thursday, claimed the series with the game three win on Saturday and finished the regular season with 14 runs on 16 hits with no errors on Saturday while the Wildcats (41-13, 14-10) posted three runs on four hits and one error.
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The Oregon softball team, fresh off winning its second straight Pac-12 title, will be the No. 1 overall seed in the NCAA tournament, ESPNU announced during Sunday night’s selection show. Oregon is the No. 1 national seed for the first time in program history after taking over the top spot in both the NFCA and USA Softball top-25 polls for the last five weeks. The Ducks edged out No. 2 overall seed Alabama, No. 3 seed UCLA and No. 4 seed Georgia. The Ducks (49-7-1) will play host to Albany, Utah Valley and Wisconsin in the Regional round at Howe Field, with games starting on Friday, May 16 and running through Sunday, May 18. Albany (33-11) won the America East Conference tournament, 8-1 over Stony Brook, to earn its league’s automatic bid while Utah Valley (18-40) earned the WAC bid after winning its tournament, 7-6, over New Mexico State. Wisconsin (34-18) is an at-large choice after finishing second in the Big Ten.
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Oregon rallied for four runs in the ninth but the Ducks left the tying run at second base as Arizona State held on for an 8-6 Pac-12 Conference win at Packard Stadium in Tempe, AZ on Sunday. UO (36-16, 14-10 Pac-12) trailed 8-2 heading into the final inning but mounted a comeback thanks to some shaky relief by Sun Devils’ closer Ryan Burr.
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Freshman Kiki Pepi had the best outing of her young career, going 4-for-4 with her first career home run, as an eight-run fifth inning lifted the Oregon State softball team to a 13-9 season-ending win over Stanford Saturday afternoon in Stanford, Calif. The victory gave the Beavers (18-31, 5-17) their first series win over the Cardinal since 2007.
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Junior left fielder Michael Conforto homered twice and broke the school career RBI record on Sunday as No. 2-ranked Oregon State (38-8, 20-4), routed UCLA 11-2 at Goss Stadium in Corvallis to complete a weekend sweep of UCLA of the defending NCAA champions.