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Four Ducks named to all-regional team; Nishida Most Valuable Player

Four Ducks were named to the All-Nashville Regional team with Rikuu Nishida as the Most Valuable Player.

Whether it’s a wood bat or an aluminum bat, it’s all the same to Oregon right fielder Rikuu Nishida.

The junior from Japan and three other Ducks were named to the All-Nashville Regional team after Oregon went 3-0 and advanced to the Super Regional round.

Nishida was also named Most Valuable Player of the regional after hitting .500 (6-for-12) with three runs driven in. He was joined by Sabin Ceballos, Drew Cowley and Grayson Grinsell on the all-regional squad.

Ceballos just went 2-for-13 with a homer and four RBIs, but it was his defensive prowess on the hot corner that earned him this honor. His barehanded play in the seventh inning to end a Vanderbilt rally alone probably got Ceballos on the team.

Without that play, the Commodores might have come back and beat the Ducks and Oregon might not be in the Super Regionals.

Cowley was a star at the plate as he went 6-for-13 with six RBIs, including a home run.

Grinsell appeared in two of the three games and was great. In Game 1 against Xavier, the lefty freshman threw two innings of relief where he was a bit wild with three walks, but he held the Musketeers in check.

Things went a lot better in the second and deciding game with Xavier where Grinsell started and threw four scoreless innings, giving up just three hits and striking out seven. His effort gave the Oregon offense time to get hot in the fifth with three runs in the fifth and six more in the sixth for the 11-2 win.

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Oregon-Arizona final has questions that need to be answered tonight

Questions will be answered tonight as Oregon plays Arizona for the Pac-12 tournament title.

Raise your hand if you expected an Oregon-Arizona final in the Pac-12 baseball tournament in Scottsdale, Ariz.

There would most likely be very few hands raised because these two teams weren’t exactly hitting on all cylinders coming into this tourney. Oregon was a 6-seed and Arizona was an 8-seed for a reason.

The Ducks were losers of five of their last seven, including being swept at home by Washington, the team they just defeated 12-7 in the semifinals. If Oregon hadn’t won its last two games over last-place Utah, this might be a very different article.

As for the Wildcats, they entered the Pac-12 tournament with a losing conference record of 12-18. But with the way they have pounded the baseball over the course of this week, that record probably should be flipped to 18-12.

Arizona had a tough month of April with the month ending with a sweep to the Beavers in Corvallis. But once the calendar flipped over and the weather became warmer, the Wildcats’ bats heated up at well. That 21-20 win at Stanford should have been an indication of what the Wildcats had in store for the tournament.

They’ve scored in double figures in each of the Wildcats’ three games, including the 14-4 win over the Cardinal in the semifinals.

Oregon and Arizona are not strangers to one another. The Ducks went down to Tucson in early April and swept away the Wildcats. Jacob Walsh earned Pac-12 Player of the Week after that series.

But these two teams are very different now than they were almost two months ago. Here are a few things to look out for in tonight’s title game.

 

Ducks advance to Pac-12 finals with big victory over Washington

Oregon defeats rival Washington 12-7 to advance to the Pac-12 tournament final where the Ducks will play either Stanford or Arizona.

That three-game sweep at the hands of the Huskies in PK Park seems so long ago now.

Oregon managed to get some revenge over its rival with a 12-7 win over Washington in the Pac-12 semifinals. The Ducks will now play for the title against either No. 1 seed Stanford or 9-seeded Arizona Saturday night in Scottsdale, Ariz.

Sabin Ceballos, who is in line to be the tournament’s Most Valuable Player, led the way with six runs batted in, including a two-run homer to right.

Oregon jumped on the Dawgs with three runs in the first and three more in the second inning to take a very early 6-0 lead. But Scottsdale Stadium is the college baseball version of Coors Field, so a six-run lead is far from safe.

Washington was able to get the bats going in the bottom of third as it scored five runs after the first two batters went out.

But the Ducks never gave the lead up. They scored five runs in the fifth to effectively get those runs back they gave up in the third. Drew Smith’s triple scored Tanner Smith and Seballos’ two-run single ended the rally to give Oregon an 11-5 lead.

Washington cut the lead to 11-7 in the bottom half and that was it. Oregon brought in reliever Greyson Grinsell and he shut the Huskies down. In his longest outing of the year, the freshman went 3 2/3 inning, gave up just two hits, struck out six and he earned his much-deserved second win of the year.

Whether the Ducks win or lose tomorrow night, they can go into the NCAA tournament with some momentum on their side. This was a team coming off losing five of their last seven games before winning at least three games in the Pac-12 tournament.

Baseball recap: Ducks extend win streak to 10 with big win over Pilots

Oregon’s winning streak reaches 10 games after a 9-1 victory over Portland and just ahead of a big series with the Beavers.

There’s no better way to enter into a huge three-game series with your in-state rival than in the midst of a 10-game winning streak.

The Oregon Ducks baseball team hasn’t lost since the middle of last month and is coming off a 9-1 victory over Portland at PK Park. The Ducks will now prepare for a conference series with Oregon State Thursday-Saturday.

Sabin Ceballos crushed a three-run homer in the first inning and that was more than enough to defeat the Pilots. Oregon added three more runs in the fourth thanks to Bennett Thompson’s two-run double.

The Ducks sent four pitchers to the mound and held Portland to just one run and six hits. Oregon improved to 19-7, while the Pilots dropped to 17-11 overall.