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12-6 Illinois after seven innings. Burke-Lee Mabeus gets a grounder through the left IF for a leadoff hit. Naulivou Lauaki gets a hit in shallow LF, and Jack Brooks lines up to bunt a bunch of times, but gets walked. So we have bases loaded with no outs, when Brayden Jaksa gets a high-bouncing grounder to penetrate the left infield to score Mabeus and Lauaki! Unfortunately, we left bases-loaded stranded after that. A real chance to put this game out of reach was lost... And then one of the worst nightmare half-innings ever for Oregon... Bottom line is that our relief pitching was awful; walks, hits, errors by the pitcher as we saw Luke Morgan get shelled, Michael Meckna give up runs on back-to-back wild pitches, hits given up by Toby Twist, and then I think Waz is waving the white flag with Gabe Howard coming in. This game was lost by an absence of timely hitting, (Last I saw there was 14 runners left on base) and terrible relief pitching.

Everything Dan Lanning Said After Oregon's Spring ScrimmageOregon Ducks coach Dan Lanning spoke about the team's latest spring scrimmage with the Spring Game around the corner. Oregon Ducks On SIEverything Dan Lanning Said After Oregon's Spring ScrimmageThe Oregon Ducks are inching closer to their 2026 Spring Game at Autzen Stadium. The Ducks held another spring scrimmage on Saturday, with just a week before ho

4-4 after six innings. Nothing on offense... Big 6'3" 230 pound pitcher from Grants Pass, Oregon's Luke Morgan comes out in relief, and got two strikeouts and a flyout.

4-4 after five innings. Angel Laya walks, and then Maddox Molony absolutely blasted a hanging breaking ball over the LF wall to score two and tie it up! Collin Clarke had 97 pitches, but came back out to quickly end the inning with a flyout and a sweet double-play by Drew Smith at 3rd, and Ryan Cooney at second--who zipped it to first.

4-2 Illinois after four innings. The ton of stranded base runners comes back to haunt the Ducks. We had nothing on offense this inning, but Collin Clarke gave up hits and walks, but the primary problem was routine short fly-balls that got blown by the wind at the last moment to make our fielders miss it. The wind was responsible for three of the four runs by the Illini this inning. Back to work!

2-0 Ducks after three innings. OMIGOSH! Oregon had bases-loaded with NO outs...and did nothing with it. Fortunately, Collin Clarke kept the Illini scoreless while giving up a hit, but created two flyouts and a strikeout.

2-0 Ducks after two innings. Maddox Molony nailed a liner to CF, and later stole second base. Burke-Lee Mabeus walks, and then Jack Brooks hits a low grounder to RF to score Molony and move the speedy Mabeus to third. Brooks steals second, and Jax Gimenez got plinked to bring us to Ducks-on-the-Pond! (Bases Loaded) Brayden Jaksa got walked to score Mabeus, and then we squandered the remaining bases loaded...but two runs is a good start. Boy that wind looks like it is now blowing hard out to RF, and you can see it whipping the sleeves of the pitchers. Oregon's Collin Clarke had two strikeouts, and a grounder fielded sweetly by Drew Smith for a 1-2-3 inning.

0-0 after one inning. Illinois starts Mitch Dye, who has an ERA of 4.99 and kept the Ducks scoreless in the first inning. Collin Clarke gave up a hit and a walk, but dispensed with the rest on fly balls.

My moral question is . . . what is a moral?

Yesterday we had a massive wind blowing hits out for homers, and today Waz reports that the wind is blowing inward thus far? Yesterday was 80 degrees, and today it is freezing, and with the wind...Coach Waz thinks it is a wind-chill below 40 degrees. The turf at this field is a slow bounce, and something to adjust to as well. I am curious to see how Collin Clarke bounces back after he got abused by Nebraska last week--really the first time that has happened this season. He does not throw a high mph fastball; he depends on hitting the corners with them, a nasty curve/drop-ball and he has the best changeup pitch on the staff. But these pitches have to be ON to today...and that is why we play the game. His ERA is still quite good at 3.52 and today will be an interesting test for him. Collin Clarke

Now it is official, jasper committed

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Long Ball Lauaki - 496' Home Run - Mercy! Oregon Ducks On SIOregon Baseball's Naulivou Lauaki Jr. Turns Heads With Nu...During the 16-6 blowout win against the Illinois Fighting Illini in Champaign, Illinois, redshirt freshman infielder and right-handed pitcher Naulivou Lauaki Jr

Allow me to put my answer in Con-Text. An easy decision for me, I'm The Guy in the USA without a Cell Phone! 🤪 Mr. Baseball, Charles Fischer's answer is spot on. Except for Bama in football, the quality of a loss in college sports matters. Fun post. Thanks.

I have had to change my attitude about Beavis in Baseball. While everyone knows that I love to lampoon the hapless university to the north, I also acknowledge that the more success they have in baseball, the more it helps our RPI for when we play them to help us get an NCAA Regional at the end of the season. See how I twisted that into something good for an Oregon fan?

The McDonald's app on my phone presents all kinds of offers to entice me to purchase their goods. The enticement most common during the winter has been a free breakfast sandwich if the Blazers score over a 100 points the previous day. I'm not much of a Blazers fan (or the NBA in genera), but I've felt free on the occasional Saturday to accept this offer. Lately however, they've been throwing out an enticement for a free breakfast sandwich if beavis stikes out 10+ opponents the previous day. Now for the moral question: Being a devoted, life-long Ducks fan, do you accept the offer or do you quickly get pissed off and swipe it from your phone? Please feel free to express yourself in the comments. 😆😂🤣

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Yup looks like prehm jumped the gun. Im still holding out for edmead and lewis to land on top of Jasper. They shouldnt have let them leave campus without committing imo and now NCST thinks they have a real chance at landing edmead. No clue where mikey lewis stands after his visit to vanderbilt.

OREGON ATHLETIC COMMUNICATIONS FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE | FRIDAY, APRIL 17, 2026 BASEBALL | @OregonBaseball Ducks Break Out the Bats in Run-Rule Win Champaign, Ill. — No. 19 Oregon belted four home runs while piling up 19 hits in a 16-6 (7 inning) win over Illinois in Big Ten Conference action on Friday at Illinois Field. Freshman Naulivou Lauaki Jr. hit a pair of tape-measure home runs and drove in a career-best five runs, while Ryan Cooney went 5-for-5 with three runs scored and Maddox Moloney added four RBI and a home run while going 2-for-5 at the plate. Drew Smith slugged Oregon’s first home run, a two-run shot in the first inning, while going 3-for-5 with a pair of RBI and two runs scored. Lauaki’s blasts both traveled more than 470 feet and had exit velocities in excess of 110 miles per hour. His first, a three-run shot, was measured at 496 feet and came off the bat at 114 miles per hour. The second went over the batter’s eye in center field, going 471 feet with an exit velocity of 112 miles per hour. Both Smith’s and Molony’s homer were no-doubters as well, with Smith’s traveling 441 feet and Molony’s covering 407 feet. Will Sanford (6-1) and Tanner Bradley combined to hold Illinois (19-17, 7-9 Big Ten) to six runs on a day where the wind was blowing straight out to left field in excess of 25 miles per hour. The Illini hit five home runs, but Sanford and Bradley were able to limit them to four solo home runs and one two-run shot. How It Happened: The teams traded runs over the first two innings. Smith belted a two-out, two-run home run after Cooney delivered his first base hit, to give Oregon (27-10, 11-5 Big Ten) the lead in the top of the first. The Illini matched Oregon with a two-run homer in the bottom of the first to tie the game. Moloney crushed a line-drive over the wall in left-center field in the second inning, but once again Illinois countered with a solo shot of its own in the second to tie the game heading into the third. The Ducks broke it open with five runs in the top of the third while hitting for the cycle as a team in the inning. Brayden Jaksa led off the frame with a triple into the right field corner before scoring on a Cooney double into the right-center field gap. Smith singled to move Cooney to third, before the Ducks’ second baseman was retired after getting caught in a rundown on an Angel Lay ground ball. After a strikeout, Burke-Lee Mabeus plated Smith with a base hit to center for a 5-3 lead, bringing Lauaki to the plate with two on. The Ducks’ designated hitter made it 8-3 with a laser over the left-center field wall. RS Freshman Naulivou Lauaki Jr. Oregon tacked on three more runs in the fourth inning to push the lead to 11-3. Molony picked all three RBI with a bases loaded double to left field that bounced over the left-fielder’s head allowing Laya to come all the way around from first. Illinois climbed back too with five runs with solo home runs in the bottom of the fourth, fifth and sixth innings but Oregon put the game away with five runs in the seventh to secure a run-rule victory. Mabeus led off the seventh and scored on Lauaki’s second home run of the day. Jax Gimenez reached on a one-out triple, before scoring on a wild pitch. Jaksa and Cooney put together back-to-back singles before coming around to score on a Laya two-bagger that landed inside the left-field line. Box Score Notes: Molony’s home run was his 31st career long ball, tying Tanner Smith (2019-23) for third all-time in program history ... Smith’s was his 24th, tying him for ninth all-time in program history with Anson Aroz (2022-25) and Kenyon Yovan (2017-21) … Gimenez extended his reached base streak to 27 games with his seventh-inning triple … Oregon’s 19 hits tied for the second most this season, behind only the Ducks’ 20 hits at Purdue on March 8 … Oregon scored in double digits for the 11th time this season, with the 16 runs ranking as the third most this season … Oregon’s four home runs tied for the eighth most in a single game in program history … It was the sixth time this season that Oregon hit four homers in a game … Eight of Oregon’s nine starters had at lead one hit, with six having multiple hits … Six of Oregon’s starters drove in at least one run with four players having multiple RBI. On Deck: Game two of the series is on Saturday with a 1:02 p.m. (PT) first pitch.

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Ducks Run-Rule Illinois 16-6 after seven innings. Tanner Bradley finished things off, and I hope he still has innings in him left this weekend! A get-right game we needed.... Official Game Recap will come in 2-3 hours on this thread.

16-6 Ducks after seven innings. Man...just a sliced mis-hit that normally would be caught mid-LF gets blown over the wall today. No lead is safe! Burke-Lee Mabeus gets a lead-off single in shallow RF, and then Oregon's RS Freshman Naulivou Lauaki hits his second HR of the day, a two-run blast that cleared the massive wind-screen that had to be 20-25 feet high. Regardless of the wind...this 6'5" 258 pound freshman can HIT. Jax Gimenez gets a triple by zinging a pitch to the RF corner--his speed got an extra base. Then a wild pitch scores him! Brayden Jaksa hit a missile to shallow LF, and Ryan Cooney got his first FIVE-HIT game with a liner to CF. Then Angel Laya sliced a pitch down the 3rd baseline to score Jaksa and Cooney!