| Oregon Ducks baseball | |
| Current: | 2024 Oregon Ducks baseball team |
| Founded: | 1877, |
| University: | University of Oregon |
| Conference: | Big Ten |
| Location: | Eugene, Oregon |
| Coach: | Mark Wasikowski |
| Tenure: | 5th |
| Stadium: | PK Park |
| Capacity: | 5,000 |
| Nickname: | Ducks |
| Cws: | 1954 |
| Regional Champ: | 2012, 2023, 2024 |
| Ncaa Tourneys: | 1954, 1964, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 |
| Conference Tournament: | 2023 |
| Conference Champion: | 1918, 1928, 1934, 1935, 1937, 1939, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1946, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1957 |
The Oregon Ducks baseball team represents the University of Oregon in NCAA Division I college baseball in the Big Ten Conference. The home games are played on campus at PK Park.[1]
Oregon played its first baseball game in 1877 and established the program in 1885.[2]
The UO team made one College World Series appearance, in 1954, and was eliminated from the tournament after losing to Arizona and Massachusetts. A decade later in 1964, in the re-organized Athletic Association of Western Universities, Oregon was once again North Division champions,[3] [4] [5] but lost at defending national champion USC in the district finals (today's super-regionals).[6]
After the 1981 season, baseball and three other varsity sports were dropped by the university (men's gymnastics, women's golf, and women's soccer) due to a budget crisis,[2] [7] [8] and baseball became a club sport in March 1983.[9]
In July 2007, the university announced that it would again field a varsity baseball team, beginning with the 2009 season. One reason was the success of the rival Oregon State Beavers,[10] [11] [12] who had repeated as College World Series champions a month earlier.
In the Ducks' first game in PK Park, they defeated the defending national champions, the Fresno State Bulldogs, 1–0 on a walk-off single by senior Andrew Schmidt. A sellout crowd of 2,777 was on hand for the game.[13] After his eleventh season in 2019, head coach George Horton and the Ducks mutually agreed to part ways on May 28.[14] Two weeks later on June 11, it was announced that Mark Wasikowski was the successor; he was previously an assistant at Oregon from 2012 through 2016, then was the head coach at Purdue in the Big Ten Conference.[15] In his first full season as head coach of the Ducks, they hosted a regional as the 13th seed and finished second behind LSU.
The Ducks previously played baseball at Howe Field (44.041°N -123.074°W),[8] south of McArthur Court, named in 1936 for Dr. Herbert Crombie Howe (1872–1940), the former chairman of the English department. Howe started teaching at UO in 1901 and was its original faculty representative to the Pacific Coast Conference in 1915, partially responsible for the league's founding.[16] When the university dropped baseball after the 1981 season, the succeeding club team continued at Howe; the field was converted to use by the Ducks' women's softball team in 1987.[17] [18] Softball was formerly played at Amazon Park.[19]
Baseball became a club sport in 1983 and Oregon was the only Pac-10 school without a varsity baseball program through 2008. Following the reinstatement of baseball, announced in 2007,[10] the university built PK Park, directly northeast of Autzen Stadium, formerly paved parking spaces. It opened for the Ducks in 2009 and since 2010, the park is also home for the minor league Eugene Emeralds of the short season Northwest League,[1] whose season runs from mid-June through August.
Oregon notes their first year of baseball as 1877, with 1906 as the first recorded season.[20]
| Year | Coach | Record | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1906 | ||||
| 1907 | ||||
| 1908 | ||||
| 1909 | 6–3–1 | |||
| 1910 | Tom Kelly | 6–4–1 | ||
| 1911 | Tom Kelly | 9–6 | ||
| 1912 | 8–0 | |||
| 1913 | Homer Jamison | |||
| 1914 | Hugo Bezdek | 11–3 | ||
| 1915 | Hugo Bezdek | 6–3 | ||
| 1916 | Hugo Bezdek | 5–4 | ||
| 1917 | Hugo Bezdek | |||
| 1918 | 10–2 | |||
| 1919 | 1–6 | |||
| 1920 | Shy Huntington | 11–9 | ||
| 1921 | 6–13 | |||
| 1922 | George Bohler | 2–15 | ||
| 1923 | George Bohler | 3–15 | ||
| 1924 | 6–12–1 | |||
| 1925 | William Reinhart | 5–7 | ||
| 1926 | William Reinhart | 4–4 | ||
| 1927 | William Reinhart | 3–9 | ||
| 1928 | William Reinhart | 11–4 | ||
| 1929 | William Reinhart | 8–9 | ||
| 1930 | William Reinhart | 15–7 | ||
| 1931 | William Reinhart | 8–10 | ||
| 1932 | William Reinhart | 5–10 | ||
| 1933 | William Reinhart | 7–6 | ||
| 1934 | William Reinhart | 16–6 | ||
| 1935 | William Reinhart | 14–8 | ||
| 1936 | 13–11 | |||
| 1937 | Howard Hobson | 13–3 | ||
| 1938 | Howard Hobson | 17–9 | ||
| 1939 | Howard Hobson | 20–7 | ||
| 1940 | Howard Hobson | 17–11 | ||
| 1941 | Howard Hobson | 15–6 | ||
| 1942 | Howard Hobson | 20–5 | ||
| 1943 | Howard Hobson | 15–7 | ||
| 1944 | Howard Hobson | |||
| 1945 | Howard Hobson | |||
| 1946 | Howard Hobson | 18–9–1 | ||
| 1947 | Howard Hobson | 19–7 | ||
| 1948 | 12–6 | |||
| 1949 | Don Kirsch | 18–7 | ||
| 1950 | Don Kirsch | 12–11 | ||
| 1951 | Don Kirsch | 14–14 | ||
| 1952 | Don Kirsch | 19–12 | ||
| 1953 | Don Kirsch | 15–4 | ||
| 1954 | Don Kirsch | 18–8 | 11–5 in PCC North Div., 1st place,[21] District 8 champion (now super regional),[22] College World Series, 7th (tie) | |
| 1955 | Don Kirsch | 18–8 | ||
| 1956 | Don Kirsch | 18–8 | ||
| 1957 | Don Kirsch | 24–9–1 | ||
| 1958 | Don Kirsch | 19–8 | ||
| 1959 | Don Kirsch | 19–11 | ||
| 1960 | Don Kirsch | 12–7 | ||
| 1961 | Don Kirsch | 19–9 | ||
| 1962 | Don Kirsch | 29–9–1 | ||
| 1963 | Don Kirsch | 25–7 | ||
| 1964 | Don Kirsch | 31–11 | 11–5 in AAWU North Div., 1st place, runner-up in District 8 (now super regional) | |
| 1965 | Don Kirsch | 27–8–1 | ||
| 1966 | Don Kirsch | 21–18 | ||
| 1967 | Don Kirsch | 16–14 | ||
| 1968 | Don Kirsch | 25–15–1 | ||
| 1969 | Don Kirsch | 22–19 | ||
| 1970 | Don Kirsch | |||
| 1971 | 19–18 | |||
| 1972 | Mel Krause | 24–13 | ||
| 1973 | Mel Krause | 23–13 | ||
| 1974 | Mel Krause | 26–19 | ||
| 1975 | Mel Krause | 20–19 | ||
| 1976 | Mel Krause | 20–18 | ||
| 1977 | Mel Krause | 14–27 | ||
| 1978 | Mel Krause | 23–24 | ||
| 1979 | Mel Krause | 29–27–1 | ||
| 1980 | Mel Krause | 19–21 | ||
| 1981 | Mel Krause | 16–21 | does not include 2 wins vs. Lane CC – dropped program | |
| No varsity team from 1982–2008 (27 seasons), club sport only | ||||
| 2009 | 14–42 | 4–23 in Pac-10, 10th place | ||
| 2010 | George Horton | 40–24 | ||
| 2011 | George Horton | 33–26 | 11–16 in Pac-10, 8th place | |
| 2012 | George Horton | 46–19 | 19–11 in Pac-12, 3rd place, hosted Regional and Super Regional | |
| 2013 | George Horton | 48–16 | ||
| 2014 | George Horton | 44–20 | 18–12 in Pac-12, 4th place, second at Regional | |
| 2015 | George Horton | 38–25 | 16–14 in Pac-12, 6th place, third at Regional | |
| 2016 | George Horton | 29–26 | 14–16 in Pac-12, 8th place (tie) | |
| 2017 | George Horton | 30–25 | 12–18 in Pac-12, 8th place | |
| 2018 | George Horton | 26–29 | 12–18 in Pac-12, 8th place (tie) | |
| 2019 | George Horton | 27–29 | 10–19 in Pac-12, 9th place | |
| 2020 | 8–7 | 0–0 in Pac-12, *Season cancelled due to Covid-19 | ||
| 2021 | Mark Wasikowski | 39–16 | 20–10 in Pac-12, 2nd Place, hosted Regional | |
| Mark Wasikowski | 36–25 | 18–12 in Pac-12, 4th place, third at Regional | ||
| 2023 | Mark Wasikowski | 41–22 | 16–14 in Pac-12, 6th Place, hosted Super Regional | |
| 2024 | Mark Wasikowski | 40-20 | 19–11 in Pac-12, 3rd Place, Super Regional | |
| 2022 | 0-2 | .00 | 4th | |
| 2023 | 4-0 | 1.00 | 6th | Tournament Champions |
| 2024 | 0-2 | .00 | 4th |
| 1954 | 3–2 | District 8 champion, College World Series (7th) | |||
| 1964 | 0–2 | District 8 runner-up (super regional) | |||
| 2–2 | finished second in Regional | ||||
| 2012 | 4–2 | 5 | Regional and Super Regional host | ||
| 2013 | 3–2 | 8 | Regional host | ||
| 2–2 | finished second in Regional | ||||
| 1–2 | finished third in Regional | ||||
| 2021 | 2–2 | 13 | Regional host | ||
| 2022 | 1–2 | finished third in Regional | |||
| 2023 | 4–2 | Super Regional host | |||
| 2024 | 3-2 | ||||
| TOTALS | 25–22 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name | Number | Position | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Isaac Ayon | 1 | Right-handed Pitcher | Sophomore |
| Jack Scanlon | 2 | Catcher | Sophomore |
| Brennan Milone | 3 | Infielder | Sophomore |
| Josh Kasevich | 4 | Infielder | Sophomore |
| Gavin Grant | 5 | Infielder | Junior |
| Christian Ciuffetelli | 7 | Right-handed Pitcher | Junior |
| Sam Novitske | 9 | Infielder | Junior |
| Taylor Holder | 11 | Outfielder | Redshirt Freshman |
| Matt Dallas | 12 | Right-handed Pitcher | Junior |
| Drew Cowley | 15 | Infielder | Junior |
| Bennett Thompson | 16 | Catcher | Freshman |
| Chase Meggers | 19 | Catcher | Freshman |
| Logan Mercado | 20 | Right-handed Pitcher | Sophomore |
| Jace Stoffal | 21 | Right-handed Pitcher | Sophomore |
| Andrew Mosiello | 23 | Right-handed Pitcher | Sophomore |
| Kolby Somers | 24 | Left-handed Pitcher | Senior |
| Jacob Walsh | 25 | First Baseman | Freshman |
| Colby Shade | 26 | Outfielder | Sophomore |
| Josiah Cromwick | 27 | Catcher | Sophomore |
| Bryce Boettcher | 28 | Utility | Sophomore |
| Rio Britton | 30 | Left-handed Pitcher | Sophomore |
| Tanner Smith | 31 | Outfielder | Junior |
| Jacob Hughes | 33 | Right-handed Pitcher | Freshman |
| Scott Ellis | 34 | Right-handed Pitcher | Sophomore |
| Anthony Hall | 35 | Outfielder | Sophomore |
| Caleb Sloan | 36 | Right-handed Pitcher | Junior |
| Tyler Ganus | 37 | Utility | Sophomore |
| William Riley | 39 | Utility | Senior |
| Garrett Cutting | 41 | Infielder | Freshman |
| Logan Paustian | 43 | Catcher | Freshman |
| Dylan Sabia | 45 | Right-handed Pitcher | Senior |
| Aiden Van Rensum | 46 | Infielder | Freshman |
| Tommy Brandenburg | 47 | Right-handed Pitcher | Freshman |
| Cho Tofte | 50 | Right-handed Pitcher | Freshman |
| Adam Maier | 51 | Right-handed Pitcher | Sophomore |
| Stone Churby | 52 | Right-handed Pitcher | Junior |
| RJ Gordon | 66 | Right-handed Pitcher | Sophomore |
| Anson Aroz | 77 | Catcher | Freshman |