Ducks drop both ends of twin bill

Saturday, February 25

Eugene, Ore.

11:05 AM

University of Oregon

4-2

UC Santa Barbara

4-2

UC Santa Barbara

Oregon

02/25/23 | Baseball

Box Score 1 Box Score 2 Game 1 Box Score: UCSB 10, #20 Oregon 0 Game 2 Box Score: UCSB 4, #20 Oregon 1

EUGENE, Ore. — Oregon could not get the offense going on Saturday dropping both games of a nonconference doubleheader to UC Santa Barbara, 10-0 and 4-1, at PK Park.

Game One: UC Santa Barbara 10, Oregon 0
The Gauchos jumped to an early lead and then shut down the Ducks allowing just two hits en route to a win in game one of the doubleheader.

How It Happened: UCSB scored on a solo home run in the second, added runs in the fourth, fifth and sixth before hitting three solo home runs in the eighth.

Game One Box Score Notes: The two pitching staffs combined for 28 strikeouts in the game (UCSB 16, Oregon 12) … Both of Oregon hits came in the fourth inning … Rikuu Nishida had his five-game hitting streak snapped … Jackson Jaha and Gus Rogers made their career debuts on the mound … Jaha struck out one in a scoreless 1.1 innings.

Game Two: UC Santa Barbara 4, Oregon 1
The Gauchos (5-2) jumped out to an early 3-0 lead while shutting down Oregon's office for the third straight game.

How It Happened: UCSB scored a run in the second and two more in the fourth before the Ducks finally scored their first run of the day in the bottom of the fourth.

Sabin Ceballos put Oregon (4-3) on the board with a double into the right-field gap that scored Drew Cowley who singled with one out in the inning.

Oregon threatened in the eighth putting the first two batters on with a Tyler Ganus pinch-hit single and a Gavin Grant walk, but the Ducks could not push a run across. Nishida reached on a fielder's choice moving Ganus to third before Tanner Smith and Cowley both struck out to end the inning.

Game Two Box Score Notes: Smith set a new PK Park record for career hits with a sixth-inning single giving him 118 for his career in the friendly confines … Oregon got a hit from seven different players but nobody had a multi-hit game … After combining for 28 Ks in the first game, the two pitching staffs combined for 23 in the night cap (Oregon 12, UCSB 11) … Austin Anderson fanned four in two innings of work out of the bullpen while allowing no runs on one hit with one walk … Ganus gave Oregon its first pinch hit of the season.

On Deck: Oregon returns to action at PK Park on Thursday when the Ducks open a four-game series with San Diego. First pitch Friday is 3:05 p.m.

Quotes

Head Coach Mark Wasikowski

Q: You guys dropped to 4-3 after the series sweep what are your takeaways from the doubleheader?
A: We just have to be a better club this weekend, they outhit us, outcoached us, outpitched us the whole thing and we need to get back to the drawing board and have a great week of practice to get ready for the following weekend.

Q: What was your message to the team in the postgame huddle after a day like today?
A: There were a lot of messages, I probably won't go into all the messages but it was obviously something that was very apparent and the weaknesses that we had exposed.

Q: You guys scored three runs this weekend, 24 straight retired, where do you go offensively from here and what are some things you look to improve on?
A: There's not a lot that you don't look to improve on, two strike hitting, being ready to hit fastballs when you get good fastball counts, plenty of things. The blame isn't with players only it's with coaches, with preparation and obviously we need to improve.