“We have so much left to do,” Oregon head coach Melyssa Lombardi said. 

Version 8 got another series win on Sunday, and an important one for where they will place in the standings. With playoff aspirations, and the hope to host, the rubber-match win will be a huge factor in deciding where Oregon will be in May. 

No. 14 Oregon softball (38-10, 18-3 Big Ten) wrapped up its series with Ohio State (24-25, 11-10 Big Ten) with a 8-0 win on Sunday, Oregon’s 15th straight Big Ten series win.

Oregon flipped the script in Game 3 from its first two games. A hot start to the offense, a strong day in the field and never faltering through the five innings helped wrap up an 8-0 win. A much needed day at the yard before their final series next weekend against UCLA.

“The main goal is to have fun, and to know that we take each game at a time,” Kaylynn Jones said. “Our biggest goal is to get back on this field for a regional.”

Starting senior day in the circle was senior pitcher Lyndsey Grein. She was tagged with the loss in Game 1 after three runs scored (two earned) over her seven innings pitched. She had the Buckeyes’ number in the strikeout column though as got 10 out via the K. 

On Sunday, Grein tossed a clean first frame and registered a strikeout. Taylour Spencer took the circle in the second and got two K’s

“Taylour was tremendous. Tremendous,” Lombardi said. 

Spencer (4.0 IP, 1 H, 6 K)  remained in the circle and only gave up one hit through her four innings of work. She wrapped the day up with a game-sealing strikeout

“It felt really good coming out and doing what I know I can do,” Spencer said.

Amari Harper got her Senior Day moment quickly. A first inning solo shot to left field gave the Ducks a 1-0 lead, their earliest all series. Jones followed that up in the second with another solo home run that landed on top of the scoreboard in right field. 

“It felt good,” Jones said. “Our girls were working great in the dugout, trying to pick things and they did it just in time.”

The offense that had been stagnant in the early stages of both games woke up in the early stages of Sunday’s matinee; Ayanna Shaw walked, Katie Flannery doubled off the wall, a passed-ball scored Shaw and Elon Butler hit a sacrifice fly to score Flannery. The Ducks put up a four spot through the first two innings. 

The rout wasn’t done yet. Emma Cox launched an opposite-field solo home run to lead off the bottom of the third and give the Ducks a 5-0 lead.

Defensively the Ducks were a mess on Saturday, especially in the third inning. If the defense is loud, it should be for a good reason, and in Game 2 it was for all the wrong ones. The mistakes in the field put the Ducks down early, something that could’ve knocked them out of the game early. It didn’t, and the defense came back stronger in the finale.

A double play in the fourth demonstrated that. Jones fielded a groundball at second base, fired to Ho at second who whipped the ball to first to end the inning.

“Taryn and I, it’s great. It’s just like Paige (Sinicki) and I last year,” Jones said. “To have that comfort from a freshman and me, even being a sophomore, I’m ready for more years with her.

For good measure, the Ducks put more runs on the board in the bottom of the frame. Butler laced a single to score Jones from third and Harper launched her second home run of the day but was called out as she ran ahead of Butler on the base paths. 

While Harper’s run didn’t count, Butler’s and Presley Lawton’s (pinch running after a Flannery single) did. Harper’s home run was scored as a single.

After the hectic situation, the Ducks led 8-0. Spencer finished off the game in the fifth, and the Ducks had their seventh run-rule win of the 2026 season.

“What this last series does for us, for (the) Big Ten and also for postseason is really important,” Lombardi said.

Oregon will take on the Big Ten leading No. 7 UCLA Bruins in Los Angeles next weekend. The three game set will kick off Friday May 1st at 7 p.m.. The games are yet to have a TV broadcast (see Go Ducks for updated TV broadcast), but they will have a radio broadcast via KWVA.