Diamond Ducks: WSU Series Goes Awry

(Image from Daily Emerald) Baseball is a ridiculously unpredictable game. Oregon is a good, but hardly elite, team with occasionally great pitching, a weak line-up, and good-but-not-dominant relief pitching. What’s that all add up to? Frustrating unpredictability.   I alluded to as much last week. This is a team capable of going 7-2 when faced against a [...]

Diamond Ducks: Five Down, Five to Go

Oregon is not supposed to be this good. 24-10? That other team in the Willamette Valley, maybe. But not the Ducks. No, these Ducks lost too much in the offseason to be 24-10, and replaced it with too much youth, and suffered too many injuries, and can’t hit the ball, and are only playing baseball [...]

Robby Rowland commits to Oregon

Rivals.com had reported that Robby Rowland committed to Oregon. There has been speculation over whether he committed to play baseball, basketball, or perhaps even both. Ducks Attack talked with Rowland to figure out what exactly happened. DA: Did you commit to Oregon? Rowland: I did commit! Just signed my NLI about an hour ago. DA: What sport did you [...]

Ducks Crumble in Second Half Lose to Trojans

UO MEDIA RELEASE EUGENE, Ore. – USC guard Dwight Lewis scored a career-high 26 points to help lead USC to an 83-62 Pac-10 Conference win over Oregon on Friday afternoon in Eugene. The Ducks dropped to 6-7 overall and 0-1 in league action, while the Trojans improved to 10-3 on the season and 1-0 in [...]

Former UO Baseball Coach Krause Dies

Former Oregon Baseball coach Mel Krause passed away on Friday after a fight with acute myeloid leukemia.  Krause, the second winningest coach in UO baseball history, was a huge contributor in the restoration of the baseball program.  Krause, 80, was part of the program in every way possible, he was a player, a coach, and someone [...]

LeBlanc Named Baseball Assistant Coach

Oregon Baseball head coach George Horton has announced the hiring of Bryson LeBland as volunteer assistant coach for the newly restored baseball program at University of Oregon. LeBlanc has been focusing lately on working with coach Horton and assistant coaches Jason Hill and Andrew Checketts on the Oregon Baseball Camps which will be going on [...]

Baseball Lands 2009 Commit

This is the first commitment to our knowledge here at Ducks Attack and hopefully the start of things to come for the baseball program. Michael Becker of The Press-Enterprise newspaper has reported in their blog that the Ducks have landed Jake Marisnick of Riverside Poly High School in Riverside, CA. Marisnick, a 6’4 200 pound [...]

Second Duck Drafted In MLB Draft

Justin LaTempa, a 6’5 205 pound Right handed pitcther out of Golden West College who is signed on to transfer to Oregon in the summer to play baseball for the Ducks next spring has been drafted by the Arizona Diamondbacks in the 22nd round at pick number 678. Here is some of the comments on [...]

Duck’s Baseball Recruit Drafted

Ty Morrison the number 1 ranked player by BaseballAmerica.com in Oregon was selected 1st to start off the 4th round by the Tampa Bay Rays. Morrison is a 6’2 center fielder and star player of Tigard High school in the Portland area. It is not known if Morrison will stick with Oregon or will sign [...]

Ducks Unveil 2009 Baseball Schedule

In Less than nine months Oregon baseball will return to the diamond for the first time in 28 years where the Ducks will embark on a 56 game slate under the direction of Head Coach George Horton who brings College World Series experience to the program. The Ducks open play on Feb. 20, 2009 at [...]

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