Beautiful weather. Beautiful results.
The Oregon Club Sports Women’s Ultimate Frisbee team finished second at last weekend’s Northwest Regional tournament in Santa Cruz, Calif., and secured a berth at the national championship tournament in Boise on May 27 through 29.
The Ducks played seven games in two days, losing only once to eventual tournament champ UC-Davis.
Behind the excellent play of senior Corrie Nichols, Emily Dietzman and Anna Meraas, Oregon bounced back from its loss to the Aggies on Sunday afternoon with a down-to-the-wire 11-10 hard-cap win against Stanford.
“We had a great time,” team member Laura Bartross said. “We played really well together. Corrie, Emily and Anna played awesome for us.”

Baseball wins two of three
Humboldt State baseball players knew they were playing against a completely different Oregon team than they had the last time when their first two runners got thrown out by Oregon catcher Keyonosh Maljai.
The Lumberjacks ousted the Ducks (6-5) from the post-season tournament last season, so Oregon coach Rich Fay said before this season started that Humboldt was the team the Ducks most wanted to beat.
Not only did Oregon beat them twice in the three-game series, but the Ducks also beat them in very different ways.
In the first, Zach Ross handed the Lumberjacks’ first loss of the season by allowing only one run and striking out six. The next game the Ducks scored 16 runs on 16 hits to end a roller coaster game, in which Humboldt tied the game twice. The first tie was at 9-9 and the second tie was 14-14.
But Maljai’s two-run home run in the ninth proved once again that the Ducks can win close contests. The second win secured the Ducks’ first winning season since 1993.
“We should have ended the game in the seventh inning when we were leading 14-9,” Fay said. “But we just couldn’t finish it. When the players begin to feel comfortable with the lead, they tend to lose their concentration on defense.”
Besides Maljai who drove in four runs, shortstop Kerry Jenkins scored three runs; outfielder Ross scored four times; and first baseman Ty Cademartori had three runs on three hits.
The next day Oregon lost the third game 11-3. Fay admitted that the team did not have the mental edge because they had already won the two games the previous day. Fay said the team feels confident that it can compete against any team if it is healthy. The Ducks still have injured players and Fay hopes many of them will be available this weekend when Oregon plays a three game series against either Western Washington or Humboldt to determine a spot in the Nationals in Utah. Two wins secure a spot in the tournament and three wins give a first seed to the Ducks.
“Though we beat both teams in a way that our players may feel comfortable playing against them,” Fay said. “They are both dangerous teams.”