Ducks sweep Huskies on Senior Day, with a bouquet for the moms

When fans park in the slots beyond the right field fence at PK Park with Mason Neville leading off for the Ducks, they do so at their own risk.

Sunday he ripped the first pitch he saw beyond the wall, endangering a Camry and a pickup.

In the last home game of the regular season the Ducks went over 90,000 attendance, a school record.

They proceeded to dust the Dawgs with five early runs and some stubborn relief work by Jaxson Jordan in the 8th, pitching out of a bases-loaded jam.

Jason Reitz (4-0) pitched six scoreless innings for the win, striking out five while scattering two hits.

He struck out two in the first inning, and got the cleanup hitter to hit a lazy fly to Anson Aroz for a scoreless first inning. He got ahead of every hitter in the inning; the last three fell behind 0-2.

Mason Neville set the tone by depositing the first pitch he saw over the fence for 1-0 lead, his nation-leading 26th home run.

Dominic Hellman and Drew Smith hit balls on the screws, well-hit shots, but Hellman lined to third and Smith's hot smash was handled by the UW shortstop.

Malakhi Knight walked on five pitches to lead off the Husky second. The Ducks got one out on a fielder's choice, then catcher Chase Meggars erased the baserunner with a sharp throw to second.

Reitz walked another runner with two outs, but struck out Trevor Kole with a 94 mph fastball.

Anson Aroz led off the second smashing a ball to right, with his 15th home run of the year. Maddox Molony followed by ripping a double to left center, the Ducks tattooing ball after ball.

Meggars fell behind 0-2 but lined a home run to right center, his first of the season. His two-run shot gave the Ducks a 4-0 lead.

Cooney kept up the pressure with a well-placed bunt for a single, taking second on a throwing error by the third baseman. The Ducks chased Washington freshman pitcher Justin Tims before he could get an out in the second.

Neville broke the Oregon single-season record for walks when the Huskies passed him intentionally, his 51st free pass of the year.

After two innings the Ducks had 24 hits in the series compared to eight for Washington, outscoring them 15-4.

Reitz, the 6-11 righthander from Pioneer High School in San Jose, Calif. pitched a 1-2-3 third, getting out of the inning on seven pitches, a flyout and two ground outs.

In the fourth he gave up a leadoff single but got Bower to foul out to third baseman Carter Garate, a nice play near the fence. A popout to Cooney got him out number two. Another popout to short ended the inning, the Huskies stranding a runner on second in three of the first four innings.

Reitz sailed through the fifth, still scoreless, inducing two flyouts before striking out Blake Wilson looking. He'd thrown just 72 pitches.

Hellman led off the Oregon fifth with an infield single, the 6-6, 250 designated hitter legging out a slow roller up the middle. Walsh ripped a single through the right side, two on and no out.

Drew Smith showed bunt but walked to load the bases. An one-out sacrifice fly to the warning track by Molony brought Hellman home for a 5-0 lead.

In the 6th the Huskies managed a two-out single but Reitz blew a 3-2 pitch past Bower to end the inning. He sailed through six innings on 91 pitches, scattering three hits.

Washington pitcher Isaac Yeager did a great job of quieting Oregon's bats, holding them to just one run over five innings of relief, keeping them in the game. Shortstop Sam DeCarlo had all three Washington hits and made three wide-ranging plays at short.

Nothing doing for the Ducks in the sixth. Ian Umlandt came in to pitch for Oregon. In 50 innings of work this year the junior from Sherwood has posted a 1.97 ERA, tops in the Big Ten.

Malakhi Knight led off the UW 7th with a double down the line past Garate, taking third on an errant pickoff attempt. Umlandt struck out Hotchkiss, but the gave up a homer down the left field line that made it 5-2. A hanging breaking ball, hammered.

Ryan Featherston took the ball with one out. He painted the black with a 2-2 pitch to get the Ducks seven outs away from the sweep. He snuck a high fastball by Wilson to end the 7th.

Gunnar Nichols took to the hill for the Dawgs after the 7th inning stretch. He struck out two and got Smith to ground out to second.

The Ducks took their three-run lead into the eighth, Featherston still pitching. He gave up a single to Taggart before giving away to fireballer Cole Stokes.

A grounder to the first base bag got Taggart to second. Five outs away.

With the count 1-1 Stokes hit DeCarlo with a pitch, then hit Bower to load the bases, the tying run on first, still only one out. Pitching coach Blake Hawksworth came out to talk to him.

A wild pitch went to the backstop. Taggart scored. Stokes walked another batter to load the bases again, go-ahead run on first.

With a game well in hand suddenly tense, Jaxson Jordan came in to pitch, who had walked one and struck out 15 over 11.1 innings.

Two fastballs got him ahead 1-2. Hodgkins fouled off a breaking ball, then lifted a harmless fly to shallow right, two outs, runners hold.

It became the situation a boy whispers to himself pitching to a chalk square on the side of the shed: Bases loaded, two outs, count three and two, leading 5-3.

Jordan blew a slider past Whitton, preserving the lead.

In the 8th the Ducks went down in order. The two runs would have to do.

Jordan got Kole to ground out to Garate, but lost the No. 9 hitter on four pitches. Sophomore lefthander Toby Twist took over, just his second outing all season.

Lefty versus lefty, Casen Taggart at the plate for UW. He checks his swing to reach 2-2, then 3-2, then lifts a warning track fly ball to left. Aroz squeezes it.

With a righthanded batter due up Hawksworth went to the pen again, bringing in Seth Mattox, who pitched a scoreless 9th Saturday for a save. This time he needed just one out.

The transfer from California Baptist quickly fell behind AJ Guerrero 3-0, but clutched up to find the strike zone twice, 3-2, but a line drive single up the middle put runners at the corners.

Sam DeCarlo due up, 3-3 on the day with three singles and a hit by pitch. Mattox worked ahead 1-2.

Chase Meggars threw out the runner trying for second to end the game. It was his second hose-out of the game to go along with his two-run homer.

UCLA swept Illinois in Champaign to stay one game ahead of the Ducks in second in the Big Ten at 20-7. The Ducks play first-place Iowa in a three-game series beginning Thursday, needing to sweep to have a shot to win the league.

The Ducks have played, objectively, the hardest schedule in the Big Ten. They've faced all five of the other top teams in the conference.

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