Charles Fischer

After seven innings it is 19-11, Oregon after Dominic Hellman hit his second GRAND SLAM of the day! Whew!

15-7 Ducks! (After six innings)

After four innings, 13-4 Ducks! Good gosh the freshman catcher Burke-Lee Mabeus is on fire going 3-3 already this game with two doubles and a perfect bunt. Whew! Grinsell righted the ship with three straight outs and I suspect he will go another inning.

8-3 Ducks! (After three innings) Anson Aroz is such an athlete who can play catcher and the outfield. He made an incredible catch on the run!

After two innings, it is 7-3 Ducks! Grinsell has not looked great, and got hit a ton more than we would have thought... But then Our Beloved Diamond Ducks went to work. Burke-Lee Mabeus continued with his torrid streak to hit a double and score two. This might the major "confidence-building" moment for Dominic Hellman, as he hit a GRAND SLAM home that bounced off the scoreboard! Whew! All this is happening without our best hitter, Mason Neville who is not playing, and I have to assume is injured. One of our best hitters of last year, Chase Meggers, still hasn't played yet this year, although Burke-Lee Mabeus has done as good or better at catcher. A seven run inning? Whew!

Check the bottom of this thread for a game summary! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Coach Waz explained in the pregame presser that he wants to schedule teams who are either favored to win their conference, or win 30 games this year. That competition helps our team, and he spoke of how he has not had the complete team on the field yet. Part is due to early season and not clicking completely, but the other is due to injury. He said that transfer "Parker Stinson is probably our best hitter, and our fans have not even seen him play yet." There are other examples of that, but the depth that Waz has recruited has come through. He stated also "this team has not come even close to their potential yet," which speaks volumes about what he has seen, and what he expects yet this season. Columbia has won the Ivy League title six years in a row, and is predicted to do so again...

I am in the process of talking to everyone who indicated interest to begin to get the information to them. Bottom line is that we gotta make arrangements NOW or be left with few, and expensive options later. I am calling you to discuss lodging and head-count, and we do have a shuttle from the Hampton Inn to the game and back. I am working on a shuttle of some type from the airport to the Hampton Inn, and then back on Sunday. The shuttle Joe has arranged to the game and back from the Hampton Inn on Saturday will cost somewhere between $70.00 and $100 per person for the round trip. (We'll know accurately when I get the final head-count) And the shuttle company has invited us to their tailgate at the stadium! This is going to be fun, my friends! Joe, (NJDuck) has been incredible in all the research he has done, and he got four tickets to the game yesterday for him, his wife, son and I for $350 each, and they are on the 40 yard line. (Unbelievable!) Good tickets in decent locations remain, but they are selling VERY fast. You need to get your football tickets and airline arrangements immediately. Yesterday, I booked the last seat on the 6:50 AM Southwest Airline flight out of Eugene, so I would get on it NOW. I need to know everyone's arrival time in the Pittsburg International Airport so we can coordinate shuttles to the Hampton Inn. Let me know asap at charles@fishduck.com or call me. The three sites to buy football tickets on are Vivid Seats, Geek Seats and StubHub. Joe got ours on Vivid Seats, and the link to that site and the game tickets are right here, and again, I would do this TODAY. Our gang of four are in the upper deck Section WFU Row 78, on the 40 yard line. Other sections around ours are WJU, WHU, WGU, WDU, WCU, WBU, and WAU. On the other side of the stadium there are sections EJU, EHU, EGU, EFU, EEU, EDU, ECU, EBU, and EAU.

Jon...I had no idea that Clemson was that loaded for 2025. Your research is amazing, and I have to admit former state of Oregon QB, Sam Leavitt, looked pretty darn good for a freshman last year. Great information!

That 2021 Georgia team was so incredible...one of the best ever in CFB. The timing for Lanning was perfect... Thank you Mario!

This will be a break-out year for Stewart because, 1) it needs to be for his NFL future, and 2) I'd like to think we will be throwing long a little more often this year. He can make the 50/50 Catch...

Xavier Lherisse is a Rivals 4-Star, and was offered a scholarship from Oregon, Georgia, Notre Dame, Alabama, Penn State, USC, Michigan, Tennessee, Miami, Oklahoma, Texas A&M, LSU, Florida State...you get the idea, as he was highly sought after. Xavier Lherisse | DuckSportsAuthority N.RIVALS.COM Xavier Lherisse - 2026 4 Star Nickel for Eau Gallie (Melbourne, FL) on Rivals.com

Nevada, you do not understand. We are not taunting Beck or your Georgia heritage, but the thought that Mario Cristobal will take a quarterback and help him improve? After all that we had seen at Oregon, and what he did to the quarterback, who ended up transferring to Wisconsin? We did not see anything more from Cam Ward in Miami that we saw in the Pac 12 when he played at Washington State. This is the coach who wasted Justin Herbert! It is an absolute riot to think that he will do anything, but deteriorate under Mario Cristobal. My apologies, my Georgia friend… Charles

I hear you, as another poll has them at No. 13...

EUGENE, Ore. – A day after being recognized by the Big Ten Conference, Lyndsey Grein and Rylee McCoy picked up some national honors on Tuesday. Grein was selected as the Wilson/NFCA National Pitcher of the Week, while McCoy was named the Freshman of the Week nationally by D1 Softball. Grein was also singled out at one of Softball America’s “Stars of the Week.” Grein is the first Duck to win NFCA Pitcher of the Week since Brooke Yanez in 2021. McCoy and Grein helped lead Oregon to a 5-0 record at the Mary Nutter Classic for the first time since 2020. The Ducks defeated five teams that played in the 2024 NCAA Tournament – California, No. 5 Tennessee, Utah, No. 25 San Diego State and No. 22 Missouri. At 15-1, the Ducks are off to their best start since 2021 (24-1). Oregon opens the home portion of the 2025 schedule with two games Friday – San Diego (3:30 p.m.) and Portland State (6 p.m.). Grein threw 18.0 shutout innings and won four games. She pitched in all five games and allowed five hits while striking out 24. Opposing batters hit just .088 against her. She pitched the final 3.1 innings against No. 5 Tennessee, striking out five and allowing no hits in the Ducks' 1-0 win in eight innings. In 4.2 innings in relief against No. 22 Missouri, Grein went 4.1 innings and gave up one hit while striking out eight. She struck out six, walked none and allowed just one hit in the Ducks' 2-0 win over Utah. Grein has not allowed a run in her last seven appearances (24.1 innings) and is 9-0 on the season, which leads the nation. She is second in the Big Ten and fifth nationally with 62 strikeouts and fifth in the Big Ten with an 0.95 earned run average. McCoy, who was also named tournament MVP by D1 Softball, hit four home runs at the Mary Nutter Classic. She hit two homers in the Ducks' 11-3 win over No. 22 Missouri and also had home runs against California and Utah. She hit .438 for the tournament (7-of-16) and slugged 1.313. On the season McCoy is tied for second in the Big Ten with seven home runs, is third in slugging percentage at 1.114 and eighth in batting average (.457).

Oh Yeah!

Amen: Decision-making is what separates QBs in my opinion. They all have talent, but when to throw and where....

That Michigan was in the 'Natty championship games as recent as 2019...points to cold weather teams as "possible" as Oregon State has done three times.

Those are the throwbacks to 1954, the last time we made the College World Series and I love them too. Jacob Walsh

I agree with you, as I am often stunned at the superb coverage on B1G+ of Wrestling, Hockey....and Lacrosse! The former Pac-12 teams are going to complement the B1G, by bringing our power to sports they have been traditionally weak at. Besides Baseball, the four former Pac-12 schools will DOMINATE in softball, and I am OK with this as we can schedule non-conference to build our RPI, and have enough credibility before joining the B1G to host our own regional if we win as much as before. We are cold-weather teams, and always have been, thus Oregon fits in fine. Mason Neville hit a stunning home run this last weekend in the driving rain. That's a Duck!

His first week playing, and gets conference freshman of the week already? "Greatness and Weakness Emerge Early" ----------------------------------------------------------------------- EUGENE, Ore. – Coming off a series win over Rhode Island, Oregon catcher Burke-Lee Mabeus has been named the Big Ten Conference Co-Freshman of the Week. Mabeus (Henderson, Nev.) started a pair of games behind the plate for the Ducks leading Oregon to wins in both games while slashing .444/.500/.778 with a 1.278 OPS. He slugged his first career home run, a grand slam, while driving in a team-high eight runs with two runs scored and a stolen base. In a 19-12 win in game two of a doubleheader on Saturday, the Ducks’ freshman went 1-for-4 with two RBI and a run scored. Mabeus tied the game at eight in the bottom of the fourth when he was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded, before adding an RBI single in the Ducks four-run fifth inning. On Sunday in Oregon’s 15-2 series clinching win, Mabeus went 3-for-4 with a home run, six RBI, a run scored and a stolen base. He gave Oregon the lead in the bottom of the first with a two-run single before swiping second base. After adding a leadoff single in the third inning, the Ducks’ catcher broke the game open belting a two-out grand slam to push Oregon’s lead to 8-4. Mabeus is Oregon’s first baseball player to earn a conference weekly honor from the Big Ten Conference in its inaugural season in the league. He is also Oregon’s first ever freshman of the week award winner. The Pac-12 Conference did not recognize a freshman of the week, but Mitchell Tolman did win Pac-12 Player of the Week honors on May 6, 2013 as a true freshman. Mabeus’ six RBI were the most RBI by a Ducks’ freshman since Tolman did it vs. Seattle in Everett, Wash., on April 30, 2013, which eventually led to the player of the week honor. All-Time Big Ten Conference Freshmen of the Week Burke-Lee Mabeus (2/24/25) All-Time Pac-12 Conference Players of the Week Jacob Walsh (3/11/24; 4/3/23) Drew Cowley (5/1/23) Gabe Matthews (4/13/21) Kenyon Yovan (3/9/21) Spencer Steer (4/15/19) Scott Heineman (5/25/15; 4/15/13) Shaun Chase (5/5/14) Mitchell Tolman (4/14/14; 5/6/13) Ryon Healy (4/29/13; 2/19/13) Aaron Payne (5/7/12; 4/29/12) Brett Thomas (4/9/12) Danny Pulfer (5/16/11) Aaron Jones (3/21/11) Eddie Rodriguez (5/17/10; 3/8/10) Damn good recruiting by Coach Waz, as this is a great freshman class. Four freshman pitchers who have done well already besides this catcher!