It was a run-rule whitewash in Grimy City as the Ducks 25-2 softball nine drubbed Washington on the road 9-0. Starting pitcher Lyndsey Grein recorded her fourth straight game without giving up an earned run to bring her season record to 14-0, striking out 11, surrendering just two hits and walking three.
Offensively, third basewoman Katie Flannery drove in five runs with a pair of home runs, her fifth and sixth of the year. She's hitting a robust .377 this season while piling up 29 RBI batting in the three-spot. Cleanup hitter and first sacker Rylee McCoy blasted her tenth homer of the season in the fifth, the Ducks' top hitter at (gulp) .482.
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It was the Big Ten season opener for both teams. Oregon outhit Washington 13-2 for a 1-0 start in conference play. Afterward head coach Melyssa Lombardi told goducks.com, "I think it's important that we can handle the road. This is a tough venue to play at."
They've won four in a row since a 5-2 loss at home to Oregon State on March 8. Saturday's game two of the three-game road series starts at noon PDT, televised on the Big Ten Network.