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Ducks Will Look For Series Win On Sunday
04/19/25 | Baseball
EUGENE, Ore. — Jacob Walsh hit a pair of home runs while Mason Neville added another to tie No. 16 Oregon's single-season home run record, but it was not enough as No. 10 UCLA broke open a close game late scoring 10 runs in the final two innings for a 14-4 Big Ten Conference win in eight innings at PK Park.
Neville tied Walsh (2024) and Sabin Ceballos (2023) for the single-season home run mark when he hit his 18th of the season in the first inning. Walsh added homers in the fifth and seventh to run his school career record to 51 long balls.
How It Happened: The two teams exchanged leadoff home runs in the first inning while Oregon (26-11, 13-7 Big Ten) added a second run to take the early lead. Neville hit a 3-2 pitch onto the roof of the player development area beyond the right-field bullpen for his Oregon single-season record-tying home run.
After Drew Smith drew a two-out walk and moved to second on a wild pitch, Anson Aroz picked up an RBI with a base hit to right field and a 2-1 Ducks' lead.
UCLA (29-9, 13-4 Big Ten) regained the lead with a pair of runs in the top of the fourth before Oregon tied the game in the fifth. Walsh blasted the first pitch he saw for a two-out home run. The home run was his 10th of the season and the 50th of his career.
The Bruins regained the lead in the sixth with an unearned run and then scored four more in the seventh on a pair of home runs, before Walsh connected on his second of the day and 51st of his career to cut the lead to four.
UCLA tacked on six in the eighth and then turned a double play in the bottom half of the inning with runners at the corners and one out to end the game via run rule.
Box Score Notes: The announced attendance (3,973) was the 10th-largest crowd in PK Park history and the second-largest this season … UCLA's leadoff home run was the first leadoff homer allowed by a Ducks' pitcher since March 12, 2024 vs. Portland … Neville's leadoff home run was his fifth of the season.
On Deck: The teams play the rubber match of the three-game series on Sunday with a 2:02 p.m. first pitch (Big Ten Network).
Quotes:
Head Coach Mark Wasikowski
On pitching performances today…
"UCLA is a good ball club, and they have good pitchers. Sometimes when you're facing a guy that's throwing 95 to 98 miles an hour with a good slider, you're going to hit a baseball into a double play. That's what happened at the end of the ball game. With good pitching, you're going to get double play balls. Bad pitching you're going to get balls in the gap, hit by pitches and walks. We saw a little bit of both of those things today from both sides."
On takeaways from today's game…
"For the first six innings of the game you feel like you prepared pretty well and then for the last couple innings of that game, I feel like I haven't prepared them at all. It's quite a Jekyll and Hyde right now for us. Every day we take the mentality that it's the biggest game of the year for us. So, tomorrow is clearly the biggest game of the year just like today was and just like yesterday was."
On corrections moving forward…
"It comes down to basic stuff. The stuff that you're seeing get loose on us in the last part of the game were the things that we had under control for the first part of the game. It doesn't really matter the opponent; it's just basic baseball stuff. Are you throwing the ball over for first pitch strikes? Are you winning 1-1 counts where percentages work in your favor? Batting averages against your pitchers are much lower, in some cases 200 points lower than 200 points higher when you lose counts, just basic principles pitching. When you do it, you do it well. You saw that last night with Grayson Grinsell. You saw it in parts today with Collin Clarke. When you don't do it well it's equally as ugly."
On mentality entering final game of series…
"To come out with the right mentality and come out knowing it is a series win on the line, maybe even a lot more. Basically, the challenge I put in front of the team is to come out and show what kind of character you have. Today you have a full house and the way it ended wasn't necessarily a very prideful moment. That's an embarrassing situation. I challenge the guys with what they're going to bring out on Easter Sunday and what kind of makeup they are going to bring to the ballpark. Are you going to let this affect your play or are you going to show up 0-0 tomorrow with the chance to win the series? If you win the series by and large you're going to have some things to look at on the weekend and say, "yes we need to do that better," but you win the series and you're going to feel like you accomplish something."
Neville tied Walsh (2024) and Sabin Ceballos (2023) for the single-season home run mark when he hit his 18th of the season in the first inning. Walsh added homers in the fifth and seventh to run his school career record to 51 long balls.
How It Happened: The two teams exchanged leadoff home runs in the first inning while Oregon (26-11, 13-7 Big Ten) added a second run to take the early lead. Neville hit a 3-2 pitch onto the roof of the player development area beyond the right-field bullpen for his Oregon single-season record-tying home run.
After Drew Smith drew a two-out walk and moved to second on a wild pitch, Anson Aroz picked up an RBI with a base hit to right field and a 2-1 Ducks' lead.
UCLA (29-9, 13-4 Big Ten) regained the lead with a pair of runs in the top of the fourth before Oregon tied the game in the fifth. Walsh blasted the first pitch he saw for a two-out home run. The home run was his 10th of the season and the 50th of his career.
The Bruins regained the lead in the sixth with an unearned run and then scored four more in the seventh on a pair of home runs, before Walsh connected on his second of the day and 51st of his career to cut the lead to four.
UCLA tacked on six in the eighth and then turned a double play in the bottom half of the inning with runners at the corners and one out to end the game via run rule.
Box Score Notes: The announced attendance (3,973) was the 10th-largest crowd in PK Park history and the second-largest this season … UCLA's leadoff home run was the first leadoff homer allowed by a Ducks' pitcher since March 12, 2024 vs. Portland … Neville's leadoff home run was his fifth of the season.
On Deck: The teams play the rubber match of the three-game series on Sunday with a 2:02 p.m. first pitch (Big Ten Network).
Quotes:
Head Coach Mark Wasikowski
On pitching performances today…
"UCLA is a good ball club, and they have good pitchers. Sometimes when you're facing a guy that's throwing 95 to 98 miles an hour with a good slider, you're going to hit a baseball into a double play. That's what happened at the end of the ball game. With good pitching, you're going to get double play balls. Bad pitching you're going to get balls in the gap, hit by pitches and walks. We saw a little bit of both of those things today from both sides."
On takeaways from today's game…
"For the first six innings of the game you feel like you prepared pretty well and then for the last couple innings of that game, I feel like I haven't prepared them at all. It's quite a Jekyll and Hyde right now for us. Every day we take the mentality that it's the biggest game of the year for us. So, tomorrow is clearly the biggest game of the year just like today was and just like yesterday was."
On corrections moving forward…
"It comes down to basic stuff. The stuff that you're seeing get loose on us in the last part of the game were the things that we had under control for the first part of the game. It doesn't really matter the opponent; it's just basic baseball stuff. Are you throwing the ball over for first pitch strikes? Are you winning 1-1 counts where percentages work in your favor? Batting averages against your pitchers are much lower, in some cases 200 points lower than 200 points higher when you lose counts, just basic principles pitching. When you do it, you do it well. You saw that last night with Grayson Grinsell. You saw it in parts today with Collin Clarke. When you don't do it well it's equally as ugly."
On mentality entering final game of series…
"To come out with the right mentality and come out knowing it is a series win on the line, maybe even a lot more. Basically, the challenge I put in front of the team is to come out and show what kind of character you have. Today you have a full house and the way it ended wasn't necessarily a very prideful moment. That's an embarrassing situation. I challenge the guys with what they're going to bring out on Easter Sunday and what kind of makeup they are going to bring to the ballpark. Are you going to let this affect your play or are you going to show up 0-0 tomorrow with the chance to win the series? If you win the series by and large you're going to have some things to look at on the weekend and say, "yes we need to do that better," but you win the series and you're going to feel like you accomplish something."
Team Stats
Pitching:
W: May, Ian (6-2)
L: Sanford, Will (2-2)
Batting:
2B: Cholowsky, Roch 1 ; Salgado, AJ 1
HR: West, Dean 1 ; Cholowsky, Roch 1 ; Hocking, Jarrod 1
RBI: West, Dean 1 ; Cholowsky, Roch 3 ; Levu, Mulivai 1 ; Hocking, Jarrod 5 ; Balsz, Blake 1
SH: Hocking, Jarrod 1 ; Balsz, Blake 1
SF: Hocking, Jarrod 1
Base Running:
RUNS: West, Dean 2 ; Cholowsky, Roch 1 ; Levu, Mulivai 3 ; Martin, Roman 2 ; Salgado, AJ 3 ; Hocking, Jarrod 1 ; Dugger, Cashel 1 ; Call, Phoenix 1
HBP: West, Dean 1 ; Cholowsky, Roch 1 ; Martin, Roman 2 ; Salgado, AJ 1 ; Dugger, Cashel 1 ; Call, Phoenix 1
Batting:
HR: Neville, Mason 1 ; Walsh, Jacob 2
RBI: Neville, Mason 1 ; Walsh, Jacob 2 ; Aroz, Anson 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Neville, Mason 1 ; Walsh, Jacob 2 ; Smith, Drew 1
SB: Cooney, Ryan 1
HBP: Neville, Mason 1 ; Meggers, Chase 1
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