Oregon_Ducks_baseball

Oregon Ducks baseball

Oregon Ducks baseball

NCAA Division 1 college baseball team

The Oregon Ducks baseball team represents the University of Oregon in NCAA Division I college baseball in the Pac-12 Conference. The home games are played on campus at PK Park.[2]

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History

Oregon played its first baseball game in 1877 and established the program in 1885.[3]

The UO team made one College World Series appearance, in 1954, and was eliminated from the tournament after losing to Arizona and Massachusetts. A decade later in 1964, in the re-organized Athletic Association of Western Universities, Oregon was once again North Division champions,[4][5][6] but lost at defending national champion USC in the district finals (today's super-regionals).[7]

After the 1981 season, baseball and three other varsity sports were dropped by the university (men's gymnastics, women's golf, and women's soccer) due to a budget crisis,[3][8][9] and baseball became a club sport in March 1983.[10]

In July 2007, the university announced that it would again field a varsity baseball team, beginning with the 2009 season. One reason was the success of the rival Oregon State Beavers,[11][12][13] who had repeated as College World Series champions a month earlier.

In the Ducks' first game in PK Park, they defeated the defending national champions, the Fresno State Bulldogs, 1–0 on a walk-off single by senior Andrew Schmidt. A sellout crowd of 2,777 was on hand for the game.[14] After his eleventh season in 2019, head coach George Horton and the Ducks mutually agreed to part ways on May 28.[15] Two weeks later on June 11, it was announced that Mark Wasikowski was the successor; he was previously an assistant at Oregon from 2012 through 2016, then was the head coach at Purdue in the Big Ten Conference.[16] In his first full season as head coach of the Ducks, they hosted a regional as the 13th seed and finished second behind LSU.

Stadium

Hosting BYU in March 2011

The Ducks previously played baseball at Howe Field (44.041°N 123.074°W / 44.041; -123.074),[9] south of McArthur Court, named in 1936 for Dr. Herbert Crombie Howe (1872–1940), the former chairman of the English department. Howe started teaching at UO in 1901 and was its original faculty representative to the Pacific Coast Conference in 1915, partially responsible for the league's founding.[17] When the university dropped baseball after the 1981 season, the succeeding club team continued at Howe; the field was converted to use by the Ducks' women's softball team in 1987.[18][19] Softball was formerly played at Amazon Park.[20]

Baseball became a club sport in 1983 and Oregon was the only Pac-10 school without a varsity baseball program through 2008. Following the reinstatement of baseball, announced in 2007,[11] the university built PK Park, directly northeast of Autzen Stadium, formerly paved parking spaces. It opened for the Ducks in 2009 and since 2010, the park is also home for the minor league Eugene Emeralds of the short season Northwest League,[2] whose season runs from mid-June through August.

Yearly Awards

Pac-12 Player of the Year

Pac-12 Pitcher of the Year

  • Alex Keudell (2011)

Yearly results

Oregon notes their first year of baseball as 1877, with 1906 as the first recorded season.[21]

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Oregon in the Pac-12 tournament

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Oregon in the NCAA tournament

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Current roster

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Former players

See also

References

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    May, Jacob (January 31, 2008). "Oregon unveils Duck baseball's Field of Dreams". Oregon Daily Emerald. (Eugene). Retrieved June 9, 2008.
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    Rodman, Bob (May 7, 1981). "A gloomy day for Ducks' oldest program". Eugene-Register Guard. (Oregon). p. 1C.
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    Harvey, Paul III (May 23, 1964). "Ducks clinch ND title". Eugene Register-Guard. (Oregon). p. 1B.
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    Strite, Dick (May 25, 1964). "Ducks can be as good as '54 team". Eugene Register-Guard. (Oregon). p. 3B.
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    Harvey, Paul III (May 28, 1964). "Oregon, USC nines seek district crown". Eugene Register-Guard. (Oregon). p. 2B.
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    Harvey, Paul III (May 31, 1964). "USC dumps Oregon". Eugene Register-Guard. (Oregon). p. 3B.
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    "UO axes baseball, gymnastics". Eugene-Register Guard. (Oregon). May 7, 1981. p. 1C.
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    Smith, Jeff (July 14, 2007). "Baseball no longer a dead Duck". The Oregonian. (Portland). Retrieved July 14, 2007.
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    "Schmidt's Walk-Off Upsets Defending Champs". GoDucks.com. February 27, 2009. Retrieved February 28, 2009.
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    James Crepea (June 11, 2019). "Oregon Ducks hire Purdue's Mark Wasikowski, former UO assistant, as baseball coach". www.oregonlive.com. Oregon Live LLC. Retrieved June 12, 2019.
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    "2018 Record Book" (PDF). goducks.com. Oregon Ducks Athletics. pp. 1, 44. Retrieved March 10, 2018.
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    Strite, Dick (May 23, 1954). "Oregon blanks OSC nine for NCAA spot". Eugene Register-Guard. (Oregon). p. 1C.
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    Strite, Dick (June 1, 1954). "Oregon wins regional title". Eugene Register-Guard. (Oregon). p. 2B.
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