Just with another dominant win added to their already impressive record.
In a 20-1 victory over the Rutgers Scarlet Knights, No.6 Oregon produced all the same hallmarks of a win less than 24 hours prior.
The offense was explosive, the pitching was suffocating, and, well, Oregon is a lot better than most teams in the nation—especially Rutgers.
It took the Ducks a little longer to get going — a 12-run fifth inning made the score as lopsided as it was — but Oregon was never really challenged throughout.
Paige Sinicki and Rylee McCoy epitomized the offensive outburst, with the latter blasting the first of her two homers in the first to kick off her 3-4 day.
Sinicki, Remmington Hewitt, Stefini Ma’ake and Kedre Luschar connected for the other big blasts on the day — all four of which came in the 12-run fifth.
Oregon tallied 20 hits on the day — a new program record. The Ducks also belted six home runs — the most of the Melyssa Lombardi era,
Elise Sokolsky got the start and allowed two runs in 2.2 innings. Taylour Spencer and Lyndsey Grein combined to go the rest of the way for the Ducks, who were able to spread out the pitching staff’s workload well over the weekend.
Oregon will head into a matchup on Wednesday against Oregon State — one of the three teams that have defeated the Ducks in 2025 — the added rest of the two blowout wins will certainly be welcomed.
To defeat the Beavers, Oregon will need to rely on its offense which went a combined 20-34 on Saturday. The Ducks brought 19 runners to the plate in the fifth.
Rutgers scored just three runs over the weekend’s two games. Oregon had five innings with three or more runs scored over the pair of contests.
Scarlet Knights’ starter Laurelai DePew was tagged for seven runs over 2.2 innings in her start. Kelsey Hoekstra didn’t fare much better, allowing li10 runs — four earned — in her outing.
Rutgers’ two runs came in bottom of the third on a home run by LA Matthews.
The Ducks scored two runs in the first and third innings, before scoring an incredible 12 runs to end the game offensively.
Oregon emptied the bench in the closing innings as 17 different Ducks saw action.
Oregon traveled 2,909 miles away from its home to take a form of extended batting practice. The Ducks will look to take this momentum into their Wednesday matchup in Corvallis.
