Autzen Zoo » Justin Phillips http://autzenzoo.com An Oregon Ducks Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and more. Sat, 25 May 2013 17:27:12 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 Oregon Baseball: Ducks Win Over Utah as Thorpe Pitches 7 Hit Free Innings, 6-2 http://autzenzoo.com/2013/05/25/oregon-baseball-ducks-win-over-utah-as-thorpe-pitches-7-hit-free-innings-6-2/ http://autzenzoo.com/2013/05/25/oregon-baseball-ducks-win-over-utah-as-thorpe-pitches-7-hit-free-innings-6-2/#comments Sat, 25 May 2013 17:27:12 +0000 Justin Phillips http://autzenzoo.com/?p=5114 Sophomore Tommy Thorpe had quite the performance on Friday night in Utah. He threw 7 innings of no hit ball and helped the Ducks to a win. Meanwhile, Oregon State lost to Washington State and Stanford topped UCLA. Oregon now stands one game back in the Conference with two to play. Things could get interesting [...]

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]]> Sophomore Tommy Thorpe had quite the performance on Friday night in Utah. He threw 7 innings of no hit ball and helped the Ducks to a win. Meanwhile, Oregon State lost to Washington State and Stanford topped UCLA. Oregon now stands one game back in the Conference with two to play. Things could get interesting by the end of the weekend.

Press Release from the University of Oregon:

GoDucks.com

SALT LAKE CITY – Tommy Thorpe threw seven hitless innings to lead No. 7 Oregon to a 6-2 Pac-12 Conference win at Utah in Spring Mobile Stadium on Friday night.

Thorpe (7-4) left the game with a 6-0 lead after the seventh. He struck out five and walked five.  Tyler Baumgartner led the Ducks going 3-for-5 with an RBI and two runs scored. Aaron Payne was 2-for-3 with an RBI, while Scott Heineman went 2-for-5 with a run scored. Ryon Healy drove in two runs to push his season total to 50 RBI.

Oregon scored single runs in the second, third and fourth innings to take a 3-0 lead. Josh Graham drove in Heineman, who led off the inning with a single, on a squeeze bunt in the second. Baumgartner led off the second with a double to right-center field and scored on a Healy fielder’s choice. Healy added a RBI single in the third.

The Ducks (44-13, 21-7 Pac-12) added three runs in the sixth to break the game open and take a 6-0 lead. Baumgartner had an RBI single to start the scoring. He drove in Connor Hofmann who led off the inning with a ground-rule double to right center. Payne picked up with an RBI on the Ducks’ second squeeze bunt of the game, before Mitchell Tolman single to right scoring Baumgartner.

Utah (20-30, 6-22 Pac-12) cut the lead to 6-2 in the eighth while picking up its only two hits of the game. The Utes committed six errors, with three of them coming on Oregon bunts.  

Oregon and Utah will play game two of its series Saturday at 3 p.m. (PT). The Ducks will send freshman Cole Irvin to the mound looking for his 11th win. 

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]]> Oregon Sophomore Lefthander Tommy Thorpe will play ball this summer for the USA Baseball Collegiate National team. For a good part of the season Thorpe has been the Ducks Friday starter and has a 2.39 ERA and a 6-4 record.

According to GoDucks.com, when he has started Friday night games he has a 1.29 ERA and is holding opposing batters to a .208 average.

Eric Evans/GoDucks.com

The Ducks face Utah this weekend in Salt Lake City to finish out the regular season and will find out their post season fate on Sunday. Oregon will likely host an NCAA Regional next weekend at PK Park, with the possibility of a Super Regional the following weekend also in the picture. With several teams ahead of them losing, including Louisville in their conference tournament, Oregon’s RPI of 8 may be enough to get them a National Seed.

Of course a three game sweep of Utah this weekend would only help their chances.
]]> http://autzenzoo.com/2013/05/25/oregon-pitcher-tommy-thorpe-selected-for-2013-usa-baseball-collegiate-team/feed/ 0 Athlon Sports Preseason Top 25 Has Oregon at #3, Winning Pac 12 North http://autzenzoo.com/2013/05/24/athlon-sports-preseason-top-25-has-oregon-at-3-winning-pac-12-north/ http://autzenzoo.com/2013/05/24/athlon-sports-preseason-top-25-has-oregon-at-3-winning-pac-12-north/#comments Fri, 24 May 2013 13:31:22 +0000 Justin Phillips http://autzenzoo.com/?p=5101 There are plenty of Preseason Watch lists that are now starting to appear, one site that I follow quite frequently is Athlon Sports. Their analysis is solid and they seem to know what they are talking about. It was a matter of time as to where the Ducks would end up on their ‘Preseason Top [...]

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There are plenty of Preseason Watch lists that are now starting to appear, one site that I follow quite frequently is Athlon Sports. Their analysis is solid and they seem to know what they are talking about. It was a matter of time as to where the Ducks would end up on their ‘Preseason Top 25′ list.

I’ve been watching the last few weeks and was quite surprised when Stanford came up at Number 7. The Cardinal has the opportunity to play Oregon down on the Farm this year and should be the most circled matchup of 2013, even more than USC(who the Ducks don’t see this season, unless it’s in the Pac 12 Title game). November 2nd will be big.

Oregon returns quite a few starters on Offense and has new Head Coach Mark Helfrich. Athlon Sports takes a look at some of the key players and notes Sophomore QB Marcus Mariota, Running Back De’Anthony Thomas and Cornerback Ifo Ekpre-Olomu.

Nationally, Athlon has the Ducks at #3 and also sees them winning the Pac 12 North.

It’s a ‘Potentially Historic Transition Year’ for the program.

 

Hey Mark, if your reading this…no pressure.

 

Oregon kicks off the 2013 season on August 31st hosting Nicholls State(the team that had travel issues due to a Hurricane in 2012 and faced Oregon State to close out the season last year. The game was played on December 1st to close out the season. Nicholls State was buried 77-3 to then #15 Oregon State, who by the way is on the Athlon Preseason Top 25 list at #25, Arizona State made the list at #23, and of course the already mentioned Stanford Cardinal comes in at #7.
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