Civil War bb
Visiting Oregon took a Pac-12 baseball Civil War series from Oregon State in Corvallis this past weekend. The Ducks won Friday 7-4, lost Saturday 6-3, but clinched the series on Sunday with a 6-3 win. OSU is at USC this coming weekend.
Pac-12 sb
Oregon State’s softball team beat visiting Arizona State in a Pac-12 series at Corvallis this past weekend. The Beavers won Thursday 1-0, and Friday 4-3. Saturday’s game was cancelled, The Beavers (30-18-1) next play USC Upstate (42-13) in the Auburn Regional Friday, 1:30 p.m. Down in Eugene, Jenna Lilley hit a two-run single in the fifth inning and the Ducks defeated Utah, 3-2, on Saturday to end the regular season with a series win. Senior Cheridan Hawkins was masterful for the Ducks (44-8, 20-4 Pac-12) as well, picking up the complete game win with two runs (both unearned) allowed on five hits and two walks with seven strikeouts. Hawkins also picked up a win in the first game of the series, when the Ducks clinched a fourth-straight Pac-12 title. The four-time Pac-12 champion Oregon softball team was named the No. 5 overall seed in the NCAA championships and will host Baylor, Long Beach State and Fordham in the Eugene regional starting Friday at Jane Sanders Stadium.
Pac-12 tr
The streak of Oregon’s Pac-12 dominance continued on Sunday, as the men’s and women’s track and field team swept the conference meet for the eighth straight year at Husky Track on the University of Washington campus. Each of the team wins marked historic feats, as the men tied UCLA for the most in conference history, at 17. The women, who have extended their streak to eight years, took sole possession of the longest reign in conference history, a feat the men accomplished last season with their ninth straight. Oregon received some star-studded performances including Athlete of the Meet honors for Hannah Cunliffe and Devon Allen, but it was again the depth of the Ducks that earned 155.60 points on the men’s side and 185 for the women. Next up for the Ducks is the road to the NCAA Championships which first goes through Lawrence, Kan., for the NCAA West Preliminary Rounds, May 26-28 before returning to Hayward Field June 8-11. NCAA Preliminary round entries will be announced on Thursday, May 19.