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The Resume
The Oregon Ducks come into the NCAA Tournament after receiving an at-large bid and Top 16 seed/Regional Host Site as the second place finishers in the PAC-12, finishing just one game behind #5 national seed Arizona, with a record of 20-10 in the conference, and 37-14 overall.
Despite beginning their season with a canceled series, Oregon enjoyed a four game series split with Seattle, and then proceeded to rattle off series sweeps against no. 15 UC Santa Barbara and no. 17 Oregon State in consecutive weekends. They took a series against Arizona State before dropping two of three to Arizona, the eventual conference champions.
2 down, 1 to go: Cal clinches huge series against UCLA, eyes Oregon
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Baseball seasons are notoriously long and grueling. In college, clubs play more than 50 games during 11 straight weeks. Single games become less important in this scenario, and a solitary heartwarming or heartbreaking performance rarely makes or breaks a season.
Sometimes, however, a season can come down to one game, one inning or one pitch. For Cal, that moment came out on the 2,756th out of the season.
Trailing 2-0 in Saturday’s matchup against then-No. 18 UCLA, Keshawn Ogans hit a screaming liner into the left-center gap on a 3-2, two-out pitch, clearing the bases and giving Cal a one-run lead.
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