Charles Fischer

14-2 Ducks after eight innings. Toby Twist has been sharp adding another scoreless inning for Oregon. WOW...what an inning! Angel Laya nailed a liner down the first-baseline that bounced off the side wall to give him a very-close double. Drew Smith puts down another perfect bunt to beat out the throw, and move Laya to third. Brayden Jaksa zips one deep to LF to score Laya. Burke-Lee Mabeus slips one past both the third baseman, and the SS to get on-base and score Smith. Then Naulivou Lauaki just crushed a pitch and put it halfway up the lighting tower for a three-run homer! Elijah Cook gets on base with an error, and steals second. Jack Brooks walks, and Ryan Cooney blasts it deep off the LF wall to score Cook and Brooks! Angel Laya doubles and scores a final run with Cooney. Whew!

6-2 Ducks after seven innings. Toby Twist completed a 1-2-3 inning for Oregon, but so did the superb Yale reliever.

6-2 Ducks after six innings. Collin Clarke came in and gave up two walks and a 2-run homer... In came Toby Twist in relief, and facing bases-loaded got a key strikeout to escape the inning.

6-0 Ducks after five innings. Cal Scolari was over 100 pitches and was relieved by Luke Morgan. He was given a jam with only one out and runners at the corners, but two strikeouts kept the shut-out going thus far. Jax Gimenez is back pulled out a walk, and then moved to second base with a passed ball. Jack Brooks does a sac-fly to move Gimenez to third. Angel Laya completes a legendary 14 pitch at-bat with a hit off the RF wall to score Gimenez, and get to third on a overthrow! The PK Park crowd is LOUD, and ROWDY! (And the sixth largest in Duck Baseball history!)

5-0 Ducks after four innings. Cal Scolari gives up two base runners again, but finishes the inning with a strikeout again! Jack Brooks beats out an infield single, and Ryan Cooney shows bunt, but then slashes a hit down the third baseline! Brooks motors from first base and barely beats the throw at home to score! Drew Smith bloops to mid-CF, and scores Cooney! Only bad news again...Oregon strands bases loaded.

3-0 Ducks after three innings. Cal Scolari gives up a double...and then picks him off when he got too big a lead-off. He allows two base runners...but then finishes the inning with a nasty strikeout! Nothing on offense as the Bulldog pitcher is tough...

3-0 Ducks after two innings. Cal Scolari put them down 1-2-3, but we stranded two on base on offense... Burke-Lee Mabeus had a fantastic throw to pick off a runner!

3-0 Oregon, after one inning. Cal Scolari takes the hill for Our Beloved Ducks, as I think they want to save Will Sanford for Saturday vs. the Cougs? He puts down two batters quickly, and then walks three in a row, but gets out of the inning with a strikeout. A pattern I've noticed about him? He likes warm weather, and when he's had bad days? It was rainy. Today is cold, overcast with occasional rain... Angel Laya got in infield single to the left, and Drew Smith laid a perfect bunt down the 3rd baseline with the opposing players set way-back to start. Brayden Jaksa hit deep to LF to score Laya and get a double! Burke-Lee Mabeus walks to load the bases. Naulivou Lauaki gets plinked to score another run! Maddox Molony hits a liner to deep LF to score another! The only bad news...we stranded bases-loaded...

Washington State beat Oregon State this afternoon 3-2, which shakes up the bracket! St. Mary's beat UCLA by the same score of 3-2, and East Carolina beat Tennessee 7-3. Let's FOCUS, Ducks! I Wondered Why was Beavis NOT Given a Regional Hosting?

The Yale pitcher is one of the nations best, according to the stats. (2.72 ERA) and I'm hoping for a good effort from the Oregon starter, (probably Will Sanford) and thus this might be another low-scoring game. Let's Go Ducks! Angel Laya

If you want to see the Eugene Regional Bracket and Game-times, you can click here and see them. And here it is on GoDucks.com as well with proposed game-times. (Scroll down to bottom) Pack PK Park!

Holy Crap! And I thought nobody would ever tune into the Apple Streaming proposed for the old Pac-12.... If Beavis makes a sound in the forest...does anyone hear him?

I have it, but it does not work well, and is incredibly hard to navigate and find what you want. When I was using it many, many months on occasion--I found what I needed only by accident. I ignore it now; I go to the GoDucks.com on my desktop, that's it.

Coach Waz explained in an interview after the Bracket show that this will become the norm. It did not happen before, because we were all in the same conference. But now that Wazzu is in the Pac-12, while Beavis is independent for this year, but in the Pac-12 later, and we're in the Big-10...this kind of thing will be more frequent in subsequent years. I agree with you...

In other Big-10 News...Nebraska's seed dropped from a projected No. 12, to a No. 13 Seed, and I think they have an 8-0 loss to Our Beloved Ducks to thank for that. They did draw a tough No. 2 Regional Seed in Ole Miss, who was projected to be a No. 15 or No. 16 National Seed. But nobody will have as big as home crowd as "the Big-Red" will in Omaha as host... USC was hoping to host, but they are a No. 2 Seed in the College Station Regional, and they could upset Texas A&M--IMHO. Trojans are a good team... The B1G was hoping get Michigan and Purdue in the tournament, but they were left out. Time to Pack PK Park!

Oregon is now ranked the highest they have been all season at No. 11 in the nation, and given a better seed than what we were looking at a few days ago at No. 15 or No. 16. We have the Yale Bulldogs coming to PK Park, and we have a NW Pac-12 renewal regional with Oregon State and Washington State (Beavis and Butthead!) joining us. The humiliation for the Beavers is palpable, but they could spoil our party if they prevailed. Better buy your tickets quick before an Orange Crush fills the stands! UCLA remains as the national No. 1 Seed, and if/when Oregon wins their regional--they would travel to Austin to play the Longhorns in a Super-Regional as they are the No. 6 Seed. They do have UC Santa Barbara in that regional, so if the Gauchos could upset the 'Horns, (they could) and Oregon wins...we could host a Super in Eugene? The Ducks might have some objections to those plans...

See the bottom of this thread starting with the No. 3 post for updated news as of Monday morning. We just have the host locations, no seeding or brackets until Monday morning 9:00 AM on the rollout show on ESPN2. Check out who the hosts are right here, and we'll learn the rest tomorrow. Our Beloved Ducks are hosting! Will Oregon State be in our Regional?

No. 1 Bruins slip by No. 14 Oregon 3-2 on a microscopic hit-by-pitch with bases loaded and two outs...in eleven innings.

2-2 after ten innings. Oregon gets a base runner, but not timely hits after that...yet. Devin Bell comes in the stop the Bruins, but got assisted by another sweet double-play!

2-2 after nine innings. Bruins got a hit off Tanner Bradley to tie it up... On to extra innngs!

2-1 Ducks after eight innings. Nothing on offense as the Bruins have superb relief pitching this time. Tanner Bradley came in and put them down with the help of a double-play!

2-1 Ducks after seven innings. Collin Clarke got it done again for another scoreless inning! Keep in mind that UCLA has won every game in this tournament coming from behind, and has an incredible record doing so. In the LA series...the Ducks had a 6-1 lead that was lost by our relievers... Let's go Ducks!