By Jonah Bruneau

The No. 25 Oregon Ducks looked to bounce back Tuesday night against the No. 2 Oregon State Beavers after dropping two out of three this past weekend at home against Washington State. In a valiant effort to take down the leaders of the PAC-12, the Ducks fell short by the final score of 4-2. Oregon had an opportunity with the tying run at the plate in the bottom of the ninth inning, but back-to-back fly-outs dashed away that last chance for a late-game comeback. The Ducks have now dropped three straight at home after winning seven of eight before the Washington State series.

Christian Ciuffetelli (Junior) got the call to start Tuesday's game against Oregon State, his first start of the season. Ciuffetelli looked good as he managed three innings of work giving up two hits, no earned runs, no walks, and two strikeouts. He is credited with the loss however as he left the game with OSU up 1-0 after a run scored on a double play in the top of the first inning. Stone Churby (Junior) on the other hand did not fare so well. Churby took over the mound in the fourth and was unable to complete the inning, as he gave up three hits with one of them being a two-run home run off the bat of Justin Boyd. With two outs still in the inning, Churby was taken out of the game and replaced with Dylan Sabia (Senior) to get Oregon out of the jam. As for the offense, both Drew Cowler (Junior) and Anthony Hall (Sophomore) had 2-4 nights at the dish. Jacob Walsh (Freshman) had a tough night at the plate as he hit into three double plays, along with a strikeout in his third at-bat to make up his 0-4 game. 

With this loss, Oregon falls to 26-14 on the season and 11-8 in the conference as they now look ahead to this weekends three game series at home against the 20-20 Cal Berkeley Golden Bears. Game One is set for Friday April 29 with first pitch scheduled for 6:00 PM PT live from PK Park.

Audio Story by Austin Ota

Coach Mark Wasikowski