Brooke Yanez strikes out 12 in shutout, Haley Cruse goes combined 5 for 6 with a cycle as No. 12 Oregon softball splits doubleheader with No. 7 Arizona
Updated May 09, 2021;
EUGENE Brooke Yanez continued her dominance against the Pac-12′s top hitting team and Oregon outfielder Haley Cruse went 5 for 6 and hit for the cycle over a split Saturday doubleheader with Arizona.
Yanez struck out 12 in a complete game shutout, her fifth of the season, and Cruse went 3 for 3 with a triple and RBI double in a 1-0 win for the No. 12 Ducks over the No. 7 Wildcats in the opening game at Jane Sanders Stadium, ensuring UO no less than a conference series win. Cruse went 2 for 3 with a leadoff home run and the teams traded the lead back and forth in a 4-3 loss for Oregon, its first in a one-run game this season, in the nonconference nightcap.
No. 12 Oregon softball drops series finale to No. 7 Arizona
Updated May 10, 2021;
EUGENE The margin for error between Oregon and Arizona was razor thin all weekend and Sunday was no different.
Neither team got a hit with runners in scoring position and each stranded eight in the process, but a single on a 1-2 pitch followed by a two-run home run by Jesse Harper on an 0-2 pitch from Samaria Diaz is all that decided a 2-0 loss for the No. 12 Ducks to the No. 7 Wildcats in their series finale at Jane Sanders Stadium.
They were two of four hits and two walks allowed by Diaz over 2.1 innings and Brooke Yanez allowed just three hits and struck out four over 4.2 scoreless innings of relief to keep UO in it.
Oregon rallies late to stun Arizona softball, spoil Hanah Bowen’s pursuit of perfection
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Hanah Bowen’s perfect game, then handed Arizona a devastating loss. All in a span of three batters.
Terra McGowan’s two-run walk-off homer lifted the 12th-ranked Ducks to a 2-1 win over the 7th-ranked Wildcats in Friday’s series opener, plating
Haley Cruse who led off the seventh inning by blooping a single into right field, Oregon’s first hit of the night.
It was a quick, cruel twist of events for Bowen, who otherwise showed she is worthy of being Arizona’s ace. Making her first-ever series-opening start against a ranked team, the junior finished with seven strikeouts and generated an abundance of weak contact.
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Story By Justin Grossweiner
It was almost a tough start to an important series for Oregon softball against Arizona following a near perfect game by opposing pitcher Hanah Bowen, but in the bottom of the 7th inning a heroic home run by Terra McGowan gave the Ducks a shocking 2-1 victory over the Wildcats. It was a pitcher’s duel the whole way as Brooke Yanez went toe to toe with Bowen until the 6th inning when she gave up a home run to Redshirt-Junior Hannah Martinez. Besides Arizona’s one big hit Yanez was dominant throughout the rest of the ballgame. She totaled 8 strikeouts and only allowed 2 hits and a walk. It would have been a tough luck loss for Yanez as she did more than enough to keep her team in the game even though she did allow a home run to Arizona’s nine-hole hitter.
Terra McGowan walk-off home run turns tables for No. 12 Oregon softball against No. 7 Arizona
Updated May 08, 2021;
EUGENE Oregon went from no offense at all through six innings to a walk-off winner over Arizona.
Brooke Yanez allowed one run on just two hits and a walk and struck out eight over seven innings yet was in line for the loss until Terra McGowan smashed an 0-2 pitch to left for a walk-off two-run home run as the No. 12 Ducks came back to beat the No. 7 Wildcats, 2-1, Friday afternoon at Jane Sanders Stadium.
“From the moment that our team stepped on the field I could feel them today,” Oregon coach Melyssa Lombardi said. “It was taking us a little bit longer than what we wanted on offense, but it was worth the wait.”