After a close 2-0 win over No. 8 Florida State on Friday night, No. 12 Oregon softball (21-2) fell to in-state rival Oregon State (10-12) in its second of five showings at the 2025 Jane Sanders Classic.

All good things must come to an end.

Oregon softball’s 16-game winning streak was no exception to that rule, and the Oregon State Beavers took their shot in a 5-2 win.

Beaver starting pitcher Logan Hulon (7.0 IP, 6 H, 1 ER, 8 K, 0 BB) came out hot with three strikeouts in the first inning. Even with Oregon’s notorious base stealer Kai Luschar advancing to third on two stolen bags, Hulon settled down and struck out the side.

Sophomore pitcher Taylour Spencer made her sixth start of the year in the circle for the Ducks. At the top of the second, she let up her third long ball of the year when OSU designated player Tristian Thompson took the first pitch she saw deep into left field for a two-run homer — 2-0 Beavs.

The Ducks had a couple of great looks with runners on in the bottom of the second, one of which was a line drive from catcher Braisey Rosa that tiptoed the right-field foul line and very well could have scored Katie Flannery from first base if it had stayed fair. Hulon and her nerves of steel held strong, striking out Rosa and Remington Hewitt for the last two outs of the second. 

Spencer (2.1 IP, 3 H, 2 ER, 2 K, 2 BB) was replaced by Elise Sokolsky (2.2 IP, 2 H, 0 ER, 5 K, 0 BB) in the third inning after Spencer gave up a full-count double to Beaver third baseman Samantha Gutierrez.

Sokolsky took care of the damage despite giving up a hard-hit single to shortstop Jaeya Butler. She struck out the final two batters of the inning and stranded Gutierrez at third.

Sokolsky brought the Ducks back to the plate right away with a three-up, three-down top of the fourth, throwing just 11 pitches in the inning.

Then chaos ball ensued at the bottom of the fourth.

Rosa and Kaylynn Jones both ripped hard-hit ground balls off third baseman Gutierrez to reach safely. Ayanna Shaw then came in to pinch run for Rosa. A passed ball advanced both runners to second and third before a high fly ball from Hewitt looked like it was going to drive in a runner with a sac fly.

Instead, Beaver outfielders Jada Lewis and Morgan Howey crashed into each other going for the flyout. The ball found grass while Shaw and Jones flew around the bases and tied the game at two.

The Ducks had switched the momentum in their favor thanks to the chaos of the fourth inning. However, Hulon had other plans. In her fifth inning of work, she retired Oregon’s 2-3-4 hitters in order and grabbed her seventh strikeout of the game, firing up her teammates on her way back to the dugout.

“Understanding when [Hulon] is throwing up [in the zone] like that to make an adjustment quicker,” head coach Melyssa Lombardi said of Oregon’s rushed at-bats in the fourth inning, “To be able to lay off the pitch that's up or be able to do a better job of getting on top of it and putting the ball down on the ground … I think we just kept doing the same thing over and over, and we were not making the in-game adjustment soon enough.”

Oregon State first baseman Lici Campbell took to the plate to start the sixth, smacking the first pitch she saw into right field for a single.

Lyndsey Grein (2.0 IP, 2 H, 2 ER, 4 K, 3 BB) came in to replace Sokolsky with a runner on first and no outs, ending Sokolsky’s outing. Grein struck out the first batter she faced before Nicole Donahue and Thompson worked a pair of walks to load the bases.

Grein was thrown right into the thick of a tie game and struggled to command the zone the way she had been leading up to this moment. With the bases loaded and one out, Grein walked second baseman Paige Bambarger to give the Beavers a 3-2 lead.

“Today we were making things a little too hard,” Lombardi said of Grein’s two innings of work. “Thought we had a hard time getting in and out of the strike zone and just commanding the ball the way we needed to.”

Another strikeout put Grein one out away from ending the inning when center fielder Lewis doubled into left field and plated two more runs to give the Beavers a 5-2 advantage.

The bottom of the sixth inning signaled what was to come. It was Oregon State left fielder Howey. After colliding with Lewis in the fourth inning, Howey made a spectacular diving catch on a Flannery fly ball. The catch was part of a three-up, three-down inning for the Beavers and put them three outs away from a massive upset.

Grein got through the top of the seventh with just one runner on before the Ducks took things into the bottom of the seventh down 5-2 with three outs to work with.

Jones led off the inning with a rip to center field, where Lewis — the other half of the Beavers’ fourth-inning disaster — made a sprinting catch over her left shoulder, matching Howey’s make-up catch from the inning prior.

A Hewitt flyout and a Luschar lineout ended the game. The Beavers poured out of the dugout and celebrated an upset win over their in-state and former conference rival.

The big storyline in the Beavers’ dugout was Hulon, whose last outing before the game was against Florida State on Friday night, where she was lit up to the tune of 11 hits and eight earned runs across five innings.

“I honestly don't think it was Hulon,” Oregon shortstop Paige Sinicki said of their offensive performance against Oregon State. “We beat ourselves in that game. I don't think she was doing anything special … We’re ready to come back tomorrow and prove that our bats are going to be hot.”

Against the Ducks on Saturday, Hulon pitched what many would call her best game of the season, given the caliber of hitters she faced — an outing that should spark a lot of confidence in both herself and the Beavers’ pitching staff.

The outcome snapped a 16-game winning streak for the Ducks and was just their fourth game scoring two or fewer runs so far this season.

Oregon State snapped a two-game losing streak and grabbed its first win in the 2025 Jane Sanders Classic over the hosting school.

Oregon softball looks ahead to a doubleheader on Sunday — first against No. 8 Florida State, then against Abilene Christian to cap off Day 3 of the Jane Sanders Classic.