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Playing for the fourth straight day and sixth in the last seven, with a rare Thursday night start to a conference series coming up, the Oregon pitching staff needed some relief Monday. Right-hander Brando Tessar obliged, despite pitching on short rest himself. The senior right-hander threw seven scoreless innings for the second straight start, helping the No. 23 Ducks beat visiting San Diego 4-3 at PK Park. The UO baseball team (28-10) takes a six-win streak of nonleague victories into a Pac-12 series against visiting Washington State, a series that begins Thursday on account of the Easter holiday.
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Dominated is one word that could be used for Monday’s Pac-12 series finale between the top-ranked Oregon Ducks and Oregon State Beavers. The Ducks’ offense exploded for 11 runs in just the first inning alone before settling with an 18-0 bludgeoning of their in-state rivals, Oregon State in five innings. The Ducks outscored their rivals 38-7 in the three-game series. Monday’s sweep of Oregon State makes it back-to-back years that the Ducks have swept the Beavers and the first time UO has swept the Beavers in Corvallis since the 1997 season. The 18 runs were the most by any UO (37-5, 11-1 Pac-12) team against its rival. The most runs scored against the Beavers previously, 13, was set in May of 1991 when Oregon won 13-0 over Oregon State (13-20, 3-7 Pac-12) in the first game of a double-header. It was also the most runs Oregon has scored against any Pac-12 foe.