Charles Fischer Administrator No. 1 Share Posted Tuesday at 05:42 PM Hello my Duck-Buddies, My initial suffering, binge, and hangover are now past, and I can step back and be reasonable about the 2025 Baseball Season. We had not won over 40 games in the regular season in a decade until this year, and so many new records shows continued progress, such as the new Home Run record broken again under Coach Waz. Seeing a new attendance record at PK Park is thrilling as well. But something that the coach referred to often in his interviews is how this team has more upside, but is not consistent enough...and that was certainly true. To win a co-championship and a good seed, the Ducks had to win 11 in row, and 16 of 17 at one point. The problem is...they peaked just before the Playoffs. It happens. This was a very good team that did not show their best at crunch time. There was grumbling about Oregon's non-conference schedule as we had four OOC series, and ten conference series. Remember, to make the tournament (64 teams) you have to be in the top 20% in the US out of over 300 D1 Baseball programs. Of the four non-conference series...Columbia made the tournament, and beat No. 16 Southern Miss. Rhode Island was in the tournament, and while Toledo was not, they were in the Tournament Championship game. Our final non-conference series was against Oregon State, of which we swept all four games. Other opponents showed well, such as USC making it to a final regional game before falling to Beavis. (We beat USC three times) St. Mary's beat Beavis in the first round, and we took two from the Gaels. Stunning Playoff Results College baseball was much more balanced this year, as quite a few other national seeds went down in their Regional. The No. 1 Seed, Vanderbilt, lost to Wright State! The No. 2 Seed, Texas, lost to UTSA, and the No. 10 Seed, Ole Miss, lost to Murray State...who advanced! In all, of the 16 national seeds, a total of seven of them lost their regional! Oregon was part of a trend! (Gallows humor) The highly exalted SEC started the Regionals with 13 teams in the tournament, and only advanced four, while the ACC advanced five to the Super-Regionals. In the Future? I See MORE Winning for Oregon Baseball! 1 1 1 Mr. FishDuck Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
30Duck Moderator No. 2 Share Posted Tuesday at 08:08 PM The expression goes, "Leave them wanting more." That was certainly true with our Diamond Ducks. We saw they can clearly compete in the B1G. So now we just have to slog through football and basketball seasons again! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charles Fischer Author Administrator No. 3 Share Posted Tuesday at 08:26 PM On 6/3/2025 at 1:08 PM, 30Duck said: "Leave them wanting more." Boy is that true, as I anticipated a couple more weeks to the season. To have it end so abruptly--is harsh. But...we will be BACK! Mr. FishDuck Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrJacksPlaidPants Moderator No. 4 Share Posted yesterday at 01:21 AM Winning is hard enough. Winning a tournament of this magnitude is a major accomplishment. You have to have talent, but you also have to be on a hot streak. College baseball is a strange animal. I can’t count the number of times I’ve seen a team win by double digits in the first game of a 3-game series only to go stone cold in the final 2 and get eliminated. It happened to Beavis in 2017. I hate to say it but I’m hoping Beavis knocks off FSU. Those boys are a little too cocky for my liking. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
