30Duck Moderator No. 1 Share Posted April 14 SIDEARM Integrations GODUCKS.COM Oregon's 38-4 record is the best in program history. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
30Duck Author Moderator No. 2 Share Posted April 14 On 4/14/2025 at 12:20 PM, 30Duck said: Oregon's 38-4 record is the best in program history. I did not realize that this is a better start than any of White's teams had. Incredible. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
HDuck No. 3 Share Posted April 14 I believe the 2017 season started 37-4, then was 38-6 when it got the 38th victory. Don't mean to diminish the 2025 accomplishment, but 2017 was playing Pac12 softball competition. 2017 final rankings 3-UW 4-Oregon 5-UCLA 9-Arizona 14-Utah 23-ASU 26-Cal 2025 current ranking 4-Oregon 7-UCLA 23-Nebraska 24-Ohio St 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charles Fischer Administrator No. 4 Share Posted April 14 If football did not begin to build resentment from the Old Guard in the B1G toward Oregon....the spring sports will most certainly generate some gnashing of Midwest teeth. Mr. FishDuck Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
30Duck Author Moderator No. 5 Share Posted April 15 On 4/14/2025 at 2:01 PM, HDuck said: Don't mean to diminish the 2025 accomplishment, but 2017 was playing Pac12 softball competition. You know, if it was just based on numbers, 2017 is definitely superior, Pac-12 Softball was a beast. But numbers had the Seattle Mariners of 2001 poised to be the greatest team ever after a 116-46 regular season, but they didn't even make it to the World Series. Who's to say which team would prevail in a 3 gamer between 2017-2025? That 2017 team was in the middle of a historic run. When Lombardi got to Oregon, in 2018, the team was in shambles, now it's 38-4, The Jane is rockin' again! No way can they be diminished. 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charles Fischer Administrator No. 6 Share Posted April 15 On 4/14/2025 at 2:01 PM, HDuck said: Don't mean to diminish the 2025 accomplishment, ...but you are. I am going to choose to celebrate tremendous accomplishments by all Oregon Sports, without looking hard for something negative to tarnish the successes. 1 Mr. FishDuck Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JB89 No. 7 Share Posted April 15 (edited) On 4/15/2025 at 7:11 AM, 30Duck said: You know, if it was just based on numbers, 2017 is definitely superior, Pac-12 Softball was a beast. But numbers had the Seattle Mariners of 2001 poised to be the greatest team ever after a 116-46 regular season, but they didn't even make it to the World Series. Who's to say which team would prevail in a 3 gamer between 2017-2025? That 2017 team was in the middle of a historic run. When Lombardi got to Oregon, in 2018, the team was in shambles, now it's 38-4, The Jane is rockin' again! No way can they be diminished. 30Duck, I think you are a long time fan of the softball team as am I. I went back and looked at the 2017 roster just to refresh my aging memory. I would take the 2017 team to win the series against this 2025 team. I am very impressed with the talent that Lombardi has assemble for the 2025 team. The pitching talent has finally gotten the Ducks back to an elite level and the freshman class is unbelievably talented and productive. The 2017 team had Jenna Lilley, Nikki Udria, Shannon Rhodes, Alexis Mack, Gwen Svekis, Haley Cruse and pitcher Miranda Elish just to name a few. Those players are why I would choose the 2017 team. The Mike White era was a great time to be a Duck Softball fan. I hope Oregon can win the series against UCLA this weekend and make the title game of the Big Ten conference tournament. Unfortunately they will probably need to have that type of success to receive a top 8 seed. The non league wins over Tennessee and FSU will help in seeding but the home losses to OSU and LMU hurt just as much as those wins help. We must beat OSU tomorrow. Under Lombardi, I felt we deserved to host a regional a couple of times but we were relegated to a #2 regional seed instead. The year they sent us to Texas just to have a match up with Mike White's Texas team was very frustrating. Given the selection committees past history of over looking Coach Lombardi lead Duck teams they must continue to win because the committee will look for any reason to not give us a top 8 seed. Edited April 15 by JB89 spelling error 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
30Duck Author Moderator No. 8 Share Posted Wednesday at 01:21 AM On 4/15/2025 at 3:12 PM, JB89 said: The 2017 team had Jenna Lilley, Nikki Udria, Shannon Rhodes, Alexis Mack, Gwen Svekis, Haley Cruse and pitcher Miranda Elish j That team, and the years before it was so good. Udria was my favorite, Mack, the slap hitter. The element about those teams I'll always remember was whenever a team, tied it up, or somehow took the lead, the next inning, the Ducks set it right again. '17 probably would win the series between '25. But that just says how unbelievably good they were. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
