Charles Fischer

Those are great story lines to follow, and I would add watching the young-guns on the defensive line--are they ready to step up?

The Direction of Oregon Mens Basketball?

Ducks lose 13-9...fourth loss to the Pilots in a row. Un-fricken-believable.

13-8 Pilots after seven innings. Too ugly to report as both Luke Morgan and Michael Meckna gave up three-run homers.

7-5 Pilots after six innings. Toby Twist gave up a couple of hits and a run. Luke Morgan came in to pitch for the Ducks, and closed out the inning.

6-5 Pilots after five innings. Nothing on offense of consequence, and Toby Twist came in for relief for Oregon and easily retired the side.

6-5 Pilots after four innings. Both teams went down 1-2-3...

6-5 Portland after three innings. Jax Gimenez got plinked, and Brayden Jaksa hit to shallow LF for a hit. Ryan Cooney sac-flies out to move both runners up, and then Drew Smith blasted a 3-run homer over the LF wall. But geez...Miles Gosztola got beat up. He gave up a plinked batter, two walks, two hits to tie it up. Oregon's Tanner Bradley came in to give up a double that scores another Pilot run.

2-2 after two innings. RS freshman Naulivou Lauaki is playing DH and hit the ball to the wall for a double, and Burke-Lee Mabeus hit deep down the RF line to score Lauaki. Miles Gosztola had a bad inning with giving up a plinked batter, two walks, two hits and two runs.

1-0 Ducks after one inning. Freshman Brayden Jaksa got a beautiful swing and knocked the pitch over the LF wall for a solo homer! Pitching for Oregon is Miles Gosztola, who gave up a hit, but dispensed with the rest. Miles Gosztola

Agreed. We should not have lost the series last year at Ohio State, and now at Michigan. We cannot change the B1G schedule, and we will have back-to-back road series, but Waz has learned to not add mid-week games which add to the energy drain. (I hope)

In short....travel. Oregon played great in California beating San Diego in two mid-week games, and then a tight series with Santa Barbara. Between being on the road for nearly a week, and the emotional intensity of the games--they were spent when they returned home. In the loss to Portland, (3-0) our pitching was good, but the hitting was off. Then, due to weather...the Michigan series got moved up to Thursday, and the team arrived in Ann Arbor at 2:00 AM on Thursday...and played terrible later in the day. Flat effort pitching, and flat effort hitting in the 10-0 loss. Oregon was better on Friday, but still not up to their usual in their win. On Saturday--the Ducks stranded 13 base runners and could not get the timely hits, nor the pitches in the 4-3 loss. Too much traveling over ten days, and loaded with intense, energy-draining games as well. Coach Waz learned from this and I am sure he will not schedule future mid-week games on away trips...especially when we have two travel weekends in a row. I am concerned about the game at Portland later today at 5:00 PM, and am hoping that being back in their own beds for a few days will return the sharpness needed. After Portland beat us last week...they traveled to Seattle Pacific and lost the series. ☹️ Oregon dropped in the rankings with D1Baseball, (rightly so) to No. 20 and we play No. 19 Nebraska this week at PK Park. Time to turn it around!

Holy Crap! That is the FIRST Mens Championship in any NCAA sport that Washington has won in over 130 years of existence. Their first nine championships were all done by the women. (Softball, Rowing, etc.) Damn. There goes my favorite joke.... "The Men of Washington are Proven to NOT be Championship Caliber."

Great information, as the Big-10 winning Mens and Womens Basketball AND Football? Currently UCLA is No. 1 ranked in Baseball...

Hall is a Rivals 4-Star, and besides Oregon had quite an offer list containing Alabama, Ole Miss, Texas, Georgia, Ohio State, Texas A&M, Auburn....etc. Now you got me excited!