Oregon Ducks Baseball Ranked Highly In Preseason Polls
The Oregon Ducks are making highly ranked appearances in several preseason baseball polls as the 2016 season is getting closer.
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The year has not yet come to an end but the Sports Calendar is always moving forward. As we say goodbye to College Football over the next few weeks, Spring sports begin to enter the calendar and College Baseball is among them. Earlier this week, Collegiate Baseball Today released their Top 40 to start the season (which begins in February 2016) and the Oregon Ducks are inside the Top 15, ranked 14th.
Oregon will face 17 teams that were ranked in the poll and return three experienced Starting pitchers with Matt Krook, Cole Irvin and David Peterson, all lefty starters.
Stephen Nagosek and Cooper Stiles return to anchor the bullpen for Oregon in 2016. Phil Craig-St. Louis and Matt Eureste will lead a talented Offense on the field. Craig-St.Louis hit close to .300 last season and was on a hot streak from the mid point of the season till the end leading the team to an NCAA Tournament appearance.
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Oregon State(8), UCLA(10), and Cal(13) are slotted ahead of the Oregon Ducks in the Collegiate Baseball poll. The regular season for George Horton’s team begins on Friday, February 19th at San Diego State. The home slate, which includes 27 home games begins the following week with a four game series hosting Illinois State starting on February 25th. The Pac-12 season begins March 18th beginning with the Utah Utes at PK Park.