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Ducks outlast San Diego 5-4 in 11 innings to advance in NCAA tourney

Bryce Boettcher’s 11th-inning home run propels Oregon to a 5-4 win over San Diego in the Santa Barbara regional.

The Oregon Ducks baseball team put the saying “survive and advance” to its limit Friday afternoon.

They watched a 4-1 eighth inning lead evaporate with one swing of the bat, then hold on with runners on the corners with one out in the 11th inning to eventually hold on and defeat San Diego 5-4 in the Santa Barbara regional.

With the win, the 3-seeded Ducks will play the winner of the UCSB-Fresno State game to be played later on Friday.

This wasn’t what coach Mark Wasikowski would have drawn up in order to advance to the winner’s bracket, but a win is a win and the Ducks will happily take it.

Lost in the late-game hoopla was the effort of starting pitcher RJ Gordon, who pitched his best game of the season. He went 7+ innings, allowing three runs on six hits, struck out three and walked four. He led his defense behind him make the plays and left throwing 115 pitched.

But Gordon ran out of gas in the eighth as he allowed the first two Toreros on before the Ducks went to the bullpen. Unfortunately, it wasn’t Brock Moore’s day as he gave up a game-tying three-run homer to San Diego’s best hitter Jakob Christian.

It was back to the bullpen where the Ducks went to Logan Mercado and that was ultimately the right call. The senior closer went the rest of the way, not allowing the Toreros to score in the next four innings to earn the win.

Oregon would eventually pull ahead in the 11th on a Bryce Boettcher blast down the left field line to give the Ducks the 5-4 lead and win.

The Ducks never trailed in the game as Carter Garate got the scoring off to a start with his fourth homer of the season, a 423-foot bomb to right-center field in the fifth.

After San Diego tied the game in the bottom half of the inning, Oregon managed to score on a Maddox Molony fielder’s choice and a safety squeeze pulled off perfectly by Garate. The Ducks made it 4-1 on Garate’s third hit, a double that went to the wall that scored Drew Smith all the way from first base.

Oregon will next play Saturday night at 7 pm PST on one of the ESPN networks.

Oregon baseball given a decent chance at advancing in the NCAA tournament

Oregon baseball has a fighting chance of advancing in the NCAA tournament, according to Parker Fleming.

If there’s one thing everyone learned last season is that the Oregon Ducks baseball team knows how to win on the road.

The Ducks were the 2-seed in the Vanderbilt Regional in 2023 and upset the Commodores to advance to the Super Regionals.

Oregon is in a similar position this season as the NCAA tournament committee put the Ducks in the Santa Barbara Regional as the 3-seed alongside the host Gauchos, Fresno State and their opening opponent, the 2-seeded San Diego Toreros.

According to Parker Fleming, an odds expert, he says the Ducks have a decent chance of coming out on top and advancing to the Super Regionals, just like they did a year ago.

“Oregon baseball has a fighting chance to get out of the Santa Barbara Regional,” he said.

Fleming gives the Ducks a 21.6 percent chance of winning the bracket. Of course, the host Gauchos have the best chance at 42.5 percent and San Diego is given a 29.7 percent chance. It would be a huge upset if the Fresno State Bulldogs advance as they have just a 6.2 percent chance.

Oregon and San Diego opens up the regional on Friday with the first pitch scheduled for 12 pm PST on ESPNU.

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Oregon goes to the Santa Barbara Regional in NCAA tournament

Oregon baseball stays on the West Coast and will head to sunny Santa Barbara to play in the NCAA tournament this weekend.

This is why being on the bubble is so difficult. You have to wait to see when your name is called, if your name is called.

The Oregon Ducks baseball team had to wait nearly the entire selection process until their name finally showed up on a four-team regional bracket on the ESPN2 telecast.

But their name was called and the Ducks will stay on the West Coast as they will head down to play in the Santa Barbara Regional this weekend. Oregon (37-18) will open up with the San Diego Toreros (40-13), the champions of the West Coast Conference, on Friday.

This is Oregon’s fourth straight tournament appearance. The Ducks were able to host a Super Regional last season after winning the Vanderbilt Regional, but lost to Oral Roberts.

Also in the UCSB Regional along with the Gauchos (42-12) is Fresno State. The Bulldogs (33-27) won the Mountain West tournament and became that league’s automatic qualifier.

WBB recap: Big second quarter run propels Ducks into WNIT quarters

Oregon went on a 17-0 run in the second quarter and the Ducks defeated San Diego by 20 and advanced to the WNIT quarterfinals.

With Oregon shooting threes like it did tonight, even Stanford would have had a tough time beating the Ducks.

It wasn’t the Cardinal, but the San Diego Toreros that went down to Oregon 81-61 in the third round of the WNIT. The Ducks now advance to the quarterfinals on Sunday and will play either Washington or Kansas State.

For the game, Oregon was 14-of-32 from the three-point line with Ahlise Hurst leading the Ducks with 23 points on seven treys.

The Ducks also played tough defense for the entire 40 minutes and the Toreros never got their offense going. The members from the West Coast Conference shot just 33 percent from the field and 3-of-13 from long range.

Oregon transfer Eric Williams commits to Steve Lavin and San Diego Toreros

Former Oregon Ducks guard Eric Williams committed to San Diego, joining Jaiden Delaire from the Pac-12 on Steve Lavin’s squad.

Former Oregon Ducks guard Eric Williams has committed to the University of San Diego for his final year of collegiate eligibility, according to a tweet from Jon Rothstein of CBS Sports.

Williams initially entered the transfer portal back in March. He made it clear he was exploring professional opportunities as well as other schools – even indicating he was not planning to return to Oregon regardless.

It was recently revealed he went on a visit to San Diego and he even had a visit scheduled at USC as well.

Williams becomes the second high profile Pac-12 player to join new head coach Steve Lavin at San Diego, following in the footsteps of Jaiden Delaire from Stanford.

Williams averaged 8.4 points in a mostly reserve role for Oregon last year, his second with the Ducks after beginning his career in the A-10 with Duquesne.

Now he’ll head to the WCC, a tough conference to make the NCAA Tournament out of thanks to Gonzaga and Saint Mary’s, but a program where he should get plenty of opportunities to prove himself alongside Delaire in Lavin’s first year back coaching at the D-1 level.

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Beavers complete the season sweep over the Ducks with 4-0 win

Oregon’s team wide slump continues it has lost eight of 10 and five straight to the rival Beavers, including a 4-0 loss Sunday.

Bringing back Oregon baseball in 2009 was supposed to prevent all of this.

But in 2022, Oregon State is as good as ever as the Beavers completed the season sweep over the Ducks with a 4-0 win in Corvallis. With the win, the Beavers improved to 38-9 overall, 18-6 in conference play and will most likely be ranked No. 1 in the country on Monday.

As for the Ducks, they have lost eight of 10 games, fell to 13-11 in Pac-12 play and 28-19 overall. Thankfully for Oregon, its RPI is in the Top 25 so making the NCAA tournament shouldn’t be a problem. However, a few more victories in the last next three weeks would be beneficial.

Oregon has been shut out twice this season and unfortunately, both times came against the Beavers. All Oregon State needed on Sunday were two-run home runs from Matthew Gretler and Jacob Melton. The Duck pitchers held the Beavers to four hits. Oregon’s bats could just muster up four hits themselves. They only got a runner in scoring position once the entire day.

Now the Ducks need to forget the last couple of weeks and move on and first on the docket is San Diego at PK Park for two mid-week games. The Toreros handed Oregon three losses down in San Diego in the first four games, so revenge can be a factor.

But a bigger factor for Oregon needs to be securing the best record possible and making some noise in the Pac-12 tournament. If the Ducks can do that, hosting a regional in Eugene is still in the cards.

Around the horn: Cromwick’s grand slam lifts Oregon past San Diego 21-11

Josiah Cromwick’s grand slam sparked a 12-run eighth inning to help Oregon capture its first win of the year 21-11.

Josiah Cromwick must be a fan of his grandma’s salami sandwiches on rye bread with mustard.

The Oregon Ducks catcher belted a grand slam in the eighth inning to give the Ducks a 14-10 lead and eventually Oregon went on to win 21-11 over San Diego to salvage one win in the four-game wraparound series.

Oregon had been struggling to score this entire weekend against Toreros pitching, but the offense broke out in a big way with 20 hits.

Jacob Walsh also added a two-run homer in the 12-run eighth inning. It was the first of what could be many round-trippers in the careers of both Cromwick and Walsh.

Getting this win in the series finale was very important as the Ducks didn’t want to come home 0-4 to start out the season. While the offense finally broke out, Oregon has to be concerned about the pitching and defense. San Diego scored in double figures in three of the four games and they committed eight errors.

The Ducks will try to figure a few things out before St. John’s comes all the way from New York to Eugene to begin another four-game series that runs from Friday to Monday (Feb. 25-28).

Around the horn: Ducks drop third straight in San Diego

Oregon baseball battled right up until the end, but an eighth-inning run gave San Diego a 5-4 win.

This wasn’t how Mark Wasikowski envisioned his baseball team starting the season. Oregon is on the verge of being swept out of San Diego as the Toreros took Game 3 by the score of 5-4.

It’s the Ducks’ third straight loss to open the season and if they want to come back home with one win in their pocket, they’ll have to rely on freshman Tommy Brandenberg to get the job done on the hill.

Unlike in the first two games, Oregon managed to score first in the initial inning, but San Diego answered with two in the third and two in the fourth to take a 4-1 lead.

But to the Ducks’ credit, the visitors scratched out runs in the fifth, sixth and eighth to knot the game at 4-4. The Toreros took the lead for good in the bottom half of the eighth on a Kolby Somers bases-loaded walk. The Ducks got a runner on in the ninth but couldn’t score.

Around the horn: Oregon is its own worst enemy in 10-4 loss to USD

Oregon dug itself a huge hole in the early innings and couldn’t rally late as San Diego took Game 2 of the series.

Before the game, Oregon knew runs would be at a premium as the Ducks were going to face one of the best left-handed pitchers in the country.

Over 20 scouts were in the stands to watch San Diego starter Brycen Mautz work and he didn’t disappoint. The southpaw went

But the Ducks really didn’t give themselves much of a chance as they were their own worst enemy a lot of the time with walks, errors and wild pitches. At one point, the Toreros had nine runs on just three hits.

Oregon starting pitcher Andrew Mosiello had a rough time finding his control as he lasted just 2.2 innings, allowing eight runs, six earned, four walks, and two hit batsmen.

One bright spot is that the Oregon offense found some rhythm and scored a few runs. The Ducks scored two in the fifth and two in the sixth. But it was too little, too late. They will need to use that offensive momentum for Game 3 of the series Sunday afternoon.