At PK Park, it was difficult to score early in the day, but as it got going, the floodgates opened and No. 11 Oregon won both ends of a doubleheader.
Mason Neville had two home runs and four RBIs, Jacob Walsh and Jack Brooks each drove in three, and the Ducks won 19–12 on Saturday afternoon after Dominic Hellman delivered a walk-off single in the first game, which ended in a 1-0 victory in 11 innings.
In the first game, neither team was able to generate any offensive output.
The UO bullpen combined for one hit and four strikeouts over 4.0 IP, while Collin Clarke gave up four hits, one walk, and five strikeouts over 7.0 innings in a no-decision.
Hellman hit a two-out grounder to short in the eleventh, Maddox Molony went two for three, and the throw to first was deemed a walk-off error, but it was ruled wide.
Anson Aroz’s two-run home ball in the first inning of game two gave Oregon (5-2) the lead right away.
Following a series of consecutive RBI singles, a hit batter, a walk, and another single to finish the day for Jason Reitz (1.1 IP, five runs on five hits, three walks, and one hit batter), Rhode Island (3-3) scored five runs in the top of the second inning before adding another RBI single.
In the bottom of the inning, UO scored a run to tie the score at three.
In the top of the fourth, Ian Umlandt made a mistake and singled two runs, making it 8-3. However, the Ducks scored eight runs in the bottom of the inning to take the lead again. Hellman was struck by a pitch, Neville drew an RBI walk, Walsh doubled for two runs, and Burke-Lee Mabeus was struck by a pitch. Three more were added by a fielder’s error, sacrifice fly, and choice, bringing the score to 11-8.
Umlandt (2-0) gave up one more run before departing with two outs in the fifth inning after giving up four runs, one earned, on six hits, one walk, and a hit batter over 3.1 innings.
Neville hit a home run in the sixth to make it 16-9 after Oregon added four more runs in the fifth on a sacrifice fly, RBI walk, Mabeus single, and another double by Walsh.
Nine out of ten pitchers that appeared in the game gave up runs, and each team added three more runs in the seventh and eighth innings.
At 12 p.m. on Sunday, the teams wrap off their four-game series.