Ducks open Big Ten Tournament Thursday

B1G Time Debut

It didn't take long for the Ducks to make their mark in the Big Ten Conference, winning the regular-season title during their first season in the league.
Oregon used a sweep of Iowa in the final weekend of the regular season to bring the first conference title back to Eugene since the 1974 campaign.

B1G Time Deal

Oregon head coach Mark Wasikowski was rewarded for an outstanding regular season when he was named the Big Ten Conference Coach of the Year.
Wasikowski led the Ducks to a 41-13 record, matching the most win for UO in his tenure, while claiming the program's first regular-season title since 1974.

Ducks Dominate All-B1G Team

Oregon had a Big Ten best 10 players named to the all-conference teams following the season.
Oregon placed five players on the first team, four on the third team and one on the all-freshman team.
UO's nine players on the first, second or third all-conference teams was three more than any other club.

Ducks dominate All-Big Ten Conference selections

Oregon head coach Mark Wasikowski has been named the conference's coach of the year, while a Big-Ten high 10 Duck players have garnered all-league recognition including a league-best five first-team selections.
SP Grayson Grinsell, RP Seth Mattox, 1B Jacob Walsh, 2B Ryan Cooney and OF Mason Neville claimed first-team honors.
The five first-team selections tied the 2021 team for the most in the modern era of Ducks' baseball and the 10 all-league members are the most ever in Oregon baseball history.
The Ducks placed four players on the conference's third team and one player on the all-freshman team.
SP Jason Reitz, SS Maddox Molony, OF Anson Aroz and DH Dominic Hellman all are on the third team.
C Burke-Lee Mabeus earned a spot on the all-freshman team.

Ducks having a grand ole time

Oregon's eight grand slams this season are three more than the most the Ducks had hit in any previous season (5 in 2019).
The Ducks' JR 3B Carter Garate hit the team's eighth of the season, and his second in 2025, in Oregon's game-one win in a sweep of Iowa last week.
Oregon belted a pair of grand slams at Georgetown on April 14, giving the Ducks seven for the season.
The two grand slams in one game, hit by JR OF Mason Neville (4th inning) and Carter Garate (7th inning), marked the third time Oregon has hit two in a game this season.
Against Rhode Island on Feb. 23, FR C Burke-Lee Mabeus (4th inning) and C/OF Anson Aroz (7th inning) belted a pair of grand slams in a 15-2 win.
In game one of the Columbia series on Feb. 28, JR DH Dominic Hellman's hit two in the same game by himself (2nd inning, 7th inning).
On April 4 against Michigan, Hellman hit a third grand slam which tied him with Shaun Chase (2012-15) for the most in a career by a Duck.

Going, Going, Gone

For the fourth time in the last five years, Oregon has set a new program record for home runs.
The Ducks broke the previous record on Friday at Iowa when LF Anson Aroz hit the teams 102nd of the season, breaking the record set in 2023.
The Ducks' top five home run seasons have all come since 2021.
The Ducks have increased the home run record by 59 long balls in the Mark Wasikowski era.
Heading into his first season at the helm in 2020, the Oregon team record for home runs in a season was 48.
Last year's team fell just three home runs shy of matching the record set by the 2023 squad.
This year's club is averaging 1.98 home runs per game.

No question, another assault on record books

During head coach Mark Wasikowski's tenure at Oregon, the Ducks have rewritten the program's record book on offense.
The Ducks have continued that assault this season breaking a pair of records that the Ducks had previously broke during the Wasikowski era.
Oregon has belted 107 homers topping the 101 set two seasons ago and drove in 418 runs, breaking the RBI record set in 2022.
The 2022 season ended with the Ducks setting records in eight major statistical categories: batting average, hits, runs, home runs, RBI, doubles, total bases and at-bats.
Of the eight records, three broke school records set in 2021 when the team broke long-time records for runs (376 in 2010), home runs (48 in 1974) and RBI (332 in 2010).
In 2023, Oregon re-set four of the records with 101 HR, 142 doubles, 1,057 total bases and 2,167 at-bats.
While the 2024 team did not break any of the previous teams' records, the Ducks did finish second in home runs (98), third in runs (420), RBI (383) and total bases (996), fourth in hits (575) and sixth in doubles (107).
While increasing the home run record by 59 during the Wasikowski era, the Ducks have increased the runs scored record by 76 and the RBI record by 86.

Neville and Walsh in the running for National Player of the Year honors

Both JR CF Mason Neville and SR 1B Jacob Walsh have been named semifinalists for national player of the year honors.
The Dick Howser Trophy released their semifinalists last week and both Walsh and Neville were named to the list.
On Sunday, the Golden Spikes Award released its semifinalist list with Neville among the 25 players selected.

Neville national HR leader as well as Oregon single-season record holder

JR CF Mason Neville has picked up in 2025 where he left off at the end of last season.
The Ducks' leadoff hitter is slashing .302/.446/.774 with a 1.220 OPS while tallying 42 extra-base hits (26 HR, 16 2B), 67 runs scored (2nd in B1G/26th nationally) and 52 walks (2nd in B1G/13th nationally).
The Las Vegas native currently leads the nation in home runs and HR per game.
He has homered in 23 of the 53 games he has played, including three 2-home run games, giving him home runs in 39 of his 89 career starts at Oregon.
The Ducks' centerfielder has hit a home run every 7.7 at-bats through 53 games played this season after belting a home run every 9.3 at-bats last season.
He has extra-base hits in 33 of Oregon's 54 games this season with 15 multiple-hit games.
He is also slugging his way into the Oregon record book.
His 26 homers this season has set a new program record and given him 42 in the last two seasons, second behind teammate Jacob Walsh (59 HR) on the Oregon career list.
Last season, he finished two home runs behind the single-season HR leaders at Oregon.

Walsh back to finish what he started

During his nearly four full seasons at Oregon, SR 1B Jacob Walsh has compiled some staggering numbers that have him either holding a program record or closing in on adding a record to his resume.
The Ducks' first baseman, who already owned the career home run record and the multiple-RBI game records, added the career RBI mark to his resume during the Michigan series.
Walsh's 59 homers are 28 more than former HR record holder Tanner Smith (2019-21), who hit 31 during his career with the Ducks.
Teammate Mason Neville is 17 behind Walsh and has moved past Smith into second, hitting his 34th and 35th in the series vs. No. 10 UCLA before adding seven more since.
The Ducks' first baseman has also cracked the top 10 in hits (2nd), runs (2nd), at-bats (2nd), multi-hit games (2nd), doubles (2nd) and games started (T3rd).
In his fourth year as a starter at first base, Walsh is a career .278 hitter with 57 doubles and 185 RBI.

Cooney living his best life

It's been quite the last three weeks for Oregon SO 2B Ryan Cooney.
The Portland native has been named the B1G Player of the Week twice in the last three weeks before being named first-team All-B1G Ten on Monday.
The Ducks' second baseman closed the season on a tear, improving his batting average by 64 points from March 29 to the end of the regular season.
In Oregon's series sweep of Iowa last week, Cooney earned POW honors after slashing .556/.692/1.444 with a 2.136 OPS to go with two home runs, six RBI and four runs scored.
Two weeks earlier, Cooney earned his first POW award after slashing .462/.533/.846 with a 1.379 OPS while leading the Ducks to a 3-1 record in a midweek win at Oregon State and a weekend series win at Michigan State.
He homered once and doubled twice during the week while going 6-for-13 with four RBI, three runs scored, two walks and a stolen base.
Against Oregon State, Cooney went 2-for-4 with a home run, three RBI and a stolen base while leading Oregon to its first season sweep of the then-No. 7 Beavers since 1972.
In the series win over the Spartans, Cooney led the Ducks batting .444 (4-for-9) with a pair of doubles, one RBI, two runs scored and two walks.
In Oregon's win on Saturday, Cooney went 3-for-5 with a double, an RBI and two runs scored.

Aroz, Hellman and Molony claim All-B1G Ten Honors

Oregon placed nine total players on either the first, second or third All-B1G teams which were announced on Monday.
In addition to Oregon hitters Ryan Cooney, Mason Neville and Jacob Walsh being selected to the first team, JR OF Anson Aroz, JR DH Dominic Hellman and SO SS Maddox Molony were voted to the third team.
Playing left field most of the season, Aroz batted .261 with 16 home runs and 49 RBI
Predominately the Ducks designated hitter, Hellman slashed .304/.407/.550 with 12 home runs, 41 RBI and 40 runs scored in 44 games played (41 starts).
Oregon's every day shortstop, Molony belted 15 home runs while driving in 44 runs, scoring 41 times and swiping 10 bases in 10 attempts.

Grinsell joins 200-K Club while climbing top 10 in career Ks at Oregon

Friday night starter Grayson Grinsell became just the sixth Ducks' pitcher to strike out 200 batters during his career when he surpassed the 200-K mark vs. Rutgers.
The Ducks' lefty enters the Big Ten Tournament with 259 Ks during his first two-plus campaigns with the Ducks.
He passed Alex Keudell (2009-12) for third in his start against Washington and now needs 24 more Ks to move into second and 27 to set a new Oregon record passing former first-round MLB draft picks Tyler Anderson (2009-11) and David Peterson (2015-17).
Last year, Grinsell fanned 99 batters in 79.1 innings finishing the year with the fifth most Ks in a single season at Oregon.
As a true freshman in 2023, Grinsell struck out 67 in 48.1 innings of work while making 30 appearances with 27 coming out of the bullpen.
Grinsell is also moving up the career wins list at Oregon, moving into the top 10 with his win at Iowa.

Friday night guy

For the first time in his career, Grayson Grinsell took the mound as the starter on Opening Day.
The previous names of pitchers who have taken the mound on opening day are impressive with future Major League Baseball pitchers, an MLB all-star, an eventual Pac-12 Pitcher of the Year and high MLB draft picks who have toed the rubber as series game-one starters.
Eleven of the 13 previous opening day starters have been drafted with four of them playing in the big leagues.
Three of the starters (Tyler Anderson, Alex Keudell, David Peterson) earned All-America honors the season they served as the "Friday Night" guy.
Of the 15 seasons played since the return of baseball at Oregon, the Ducks' opening day starter has earned first-team all-conference recognition six times (2010, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2017).
The 13 pitchers who have served as opening-day starters have a combined 10 first-team all-conference selections on the mound during their careers.

Ducks' bullpen has been tough down the stretch

After struggling during a midseason stretch, Oregon bullpen has been lights out the last 15 games.
After allowing 15 runs in 12.2 innings in the final two games against UCLA and a midweek game vs. Portland from April 19 to April 22, the Ducks' pen flipped the switch and finished the regular season allowing just 11 earned runs in 52.2 innings pitched for a 1.88 ERA over the final 15 games.
The Ducks allowed more than one run just twice in that stretch with both of those outings coming in wins over the last two weeks.
In the 15-game stretch, Oregon's relievers have tossed three-or-more innings 10 times, four-or-more innings seven times, while going 4.2 innings, 5.0 innings, 7.0 innings and 8.0 innings once each.
Oregon has gone 14-1 in the 15 games with the only loss a 2-0 setback where Oregon got a complete game out of its starter.
Oregon has used nine relievers during the stretch with Jaxon Jordan (4), Ryan Featherston (5), Santiago Garcia (6), Ian Umlandt (6), Seth Mattox (8) and Cole Stokes (10) all making more than three appearances.
Two have tossed nine or more innings with Umlandt (14.2) leading the way and Stokes (9.0) ranking second.
Five of the relievers have not allowed a run in that stretch.