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Around the Horn: Opening night jitters doom Ducks in 11-1 loss to San Diego

The 2022 Oregon Ducks baseball season opener didn’t go as planned with San Diego coming out on top 11-1.

The college baseball season isn’t a marathon, but it’s not a sprint either. So losing on opening night isn’t the worst thing that will happen to the Oregon baseball team this season.

But lose they did as Friday night starter Adam Maier showed some butterflies on the mound, allowing a two-run homer to the second hitter of the game and San Diego cruised from there to win 11-1.

Maier settled down to get through the fifth inning, but the Toreros blew the game wide open with seven insurance runs in the seventh.

Thankfully for Oregon, it’s just one game, and the Ducks can come right back tomorrow and try for their first victory of the season.

Coaches say Duck baseball is slated for a fifth place finish

The Pac-12 baseball coaches picked Oregon to finish fifth in the conference for the 2022 season.

Year 3 of the Mark Wasikowski Era of Oregon Ducks baseball is just about here and the Pac-12 coaches say Oregon should be around the middle of the Pac.

In the pre-season poll, Wasikowski’s fellow conference coaches picked the Ducks to finish 5th in one of the best baseball leagues in the country. Oregon was 39-16 last season and was one win away from its first-ever College World Series appearance.

Stanford was picked to win the conference with 98 total votes and eight first-place votes. Oregon State is expected to continue with its winning ways with a second-place finish. Arizona and UCLA were selected to finish third and fourth, respectively, with the Bruins receiving two first-place votes.

In the first USA TODAY Sports coaches poll, Stanford is the highest-ranked conference team at No. 5. Arizona at No. 15, Oregon State at No. 20 and UCLA at No. 22 were also in the poll.

Oregon just missed the first Top 25 as the Ducks received 31 votes. They open up the season Feb. 18 with a four-game series at San Diego.

Oregon Ducks baseball earns pre-season Top 20 ranking

Oregon baseball is set to open the 2022 season with a Top 20 ranking as Perfect Game USA ranks the Ducks 19th in the nation.

 

It’s hard to believe that baseball season is right around the corner. But here we are.

Basketball is had trouble finding their footing this year with the cancellations, but hopefully with baseball being an outdoor sport, they won’t have as much trouble.

That answer will be found out in a little over a month.

Mark Wasikowski’s Oregon Ducks baseball team will see the diamond in 41 days when they open the 2022 season Feb. 18 with a four-game series at San Diego.

The Ducks will be a Top 20 team when the season begins as Perfect Game USA ranked Oregon No. 19 in their pre-season ratings.

Oregon’s ranking is deserving as the Ducks were just one game away from advancing to the program’s first College World Series last year before LSU eliminated the Ducks in the Super Regionals.

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