Ahead of their weekend series with Rutgers, the No. 6-ranked Oregon softball team made a side trip to Seacaucus, New Jersey to visit the studios of the MLB Network, where they met studio analyst Harold Reynolds, a 12-year major league veteran with Seattle, Baltimore and California who grew up in Corvallis.
Reynold's brother Donnie was a Duck running back and baseball player from 1971-74 who averaged 8.1 yards a carry as a sophomore and rushed for 1,002 yards as a junior.
The team posed for pictures on the set and met Reynolds, who chatted infielder-to-infielder with Duck shortstop Paige Sinicki, a Rawlings Gold Glove winner last season. Sinicki bats second for the 29-3 Webfoots, currently a half-game out of first in the Big Ten at 4-1 in league play.
A senior from Henderson, Nevada, Sinicki is batting a career-high .393 for UO this season, with 5 home runs and 27 RBIs, tied for fourth in the league with 15 stolen bases.
Friday's first game with the Scarlet Knights is scheduled for live broadcast on the Big Ten Network, 1 p.m. PDT from Frederick Douglass Field in Piscataway, New Jersey.
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