Along with bats, gloves, Big League Bubble Gum and some scattered sunflower seeds, the Baylor softball team seems to also carry some good Duck hunting gear.
For the second time in three tries this season, the Baylor Bears defeated the Ducks, this time at Sunday’s championship game of the Troy Cox Classic in Las Cruces, N.M.
Oregon (14-8 overall) won its first four games of the weekend, but could not find it’s offensive groove against Baylor, falling 3-0.The win was the 11th straight for the Bears, a school record.
Through five innings, the game was scoreless. But a two-run homer by Baylor catcher Ryan Stukel in the top of sixth broke the stalemate. Unwilling to go down quietly, Oregon loaded the bases in the bottom of the seventh, before Alyssa Laux grounded out to end the game.
The Ducks and Bears split a pair of games in a tournament in Texas earlier this season.
On Saturday, the Ducks defeated Iowa State, 6-2, and Houston, 6-0. Sophomore Andrea Vidlund improved to 5-2 on the year with the win over the Cyclones.
Freshman pitcher Anissa Meashintubby made her second start of the season against Houston and didn’t give up a hit in five innings of work to pick up her second win.
Laux and sophomore Lisa Wangler paced the Ducks offensively. Wangler was 5-for-7 on the day with four runs and one RBI. Laux was 5-for-6 with one run and two RBIs.
“This is the type of softball we are capable of playing,” Oregon head coach Rick Gamez said Saturday. “It’s nice to see that we have been able to put together our offense and defense on back to back games.”
UO loses final game at tourney
Daily Emerald
February 25, 2001
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