Maryland Up Next for No. 15 Oregon

ON DECK
No. 15/17 Oregon heads to the East Coast for its first visit to Maryland. The Ducks and Terrapins play a three-game series Friday through Sunday at Maryland Softball Stadium. Friday's game is on Big Ten Network. The two teams have played six times with Oregon holding a 4-2 lead. The teams last met in 2024 when the Ducks and Terrapins split a pair of games in the Jane Sanders Classic.

NUMBERS
* 12 - Oregon is No. 12 in the current RPI rankings.
* 15 - Oregon has 15 come-from-behind wins this season.
* 16 - Oregon has played the 16th most difficult schedule nationally.
* 27 - Oregon leads the NCAA with a program-record 27 sacrifice flies.
* 28 - 28 of Oregon's 35 games have come against teams in the top 75 of the RPI (28 vs. the top 100).

* 6 - Elon Butler broke Big Ten and Oregon single-game records with 6 hits vs. Iowa.
* 12 - Oregon has won 12 straight Big Ten series, dating back to last season.
* 16 - Elon Butler leads the Big Ten and is third nationally with 16 doubles.
* 18 - Lyndsey Grein has won 18 games, second in the Big Ten and fifth nationally
*139 - Lyndsey Grein has 139 K's which is second in the Big Ten (13th nationally).

IOWA POWER SURGE
In the three-game series with Iowa, Oregon hit .404 (36-of-89) with 30 runs, five doubles, four triples, five home runs and 28 RBI. The team slugged .719 and had a .471 on-base percentage.

CYCLE POWER
Elon Butler hit for the cycle April 4 against Iowa. She is the first Duck in program history to hit for the cycle. Butler singled in the first, tripled in the second, homered in the fourth and doubled in the seventh. She also set a Big Ten and UO record with six hits against the Hawkeyes. She was named Softball America National Player of the Week and Big Ten Player of the Week after hitting .583 with a double, a triple, two home runs and five RBI. She slugged 1.333 and had a .583 on-base percentage as the Ducks swept Iowa. She currently leads the team in batting (.325), doubles (16), hits (52), home runs (12), RBI (48), runs (46), on-base percentage (.527) and slugging percentage (.924).

HO NAMED FRESHMAN OF THE WEEK
For her efforts in Oregon;s sweep of Iowa, Tayrn ho was named Big Ten Freshman of the Week (Aoril 6). Ho hit .556 (5-of-9) with a triple and five RBI in the three-game sweep. She singled and scored a run in Oregon's 10-1 win in the opener. Saturday, she helped Oregon come from behind and win, 14-13, in eight innings. Down 7-4 in the third inning, Ho hit a two-run triple to bring the Ducks within one. She then singled and scored in the fifth inning and drove in a run with her third hit of the game in the sixth inning. Her RBI ground out in the seventh inning brought the Ducks to within 13-12, before the next batter, Stefini Ma'ake, tied the game. She had a hit and an RBI in Oregon's 6-2 game three win and also tagged two runners out at third base on a double play that ended the top of fourth inning. She was perfect in the field with five put out, nine assists and no errors.

CONSISTENT K-DUB
Kaylynn Jones - aka K-Dub - has been Oregon's most consistent hitter this season. Currently with a .387 average, she's hit .300 or better every weekend (and .350-plus at all five tournaments): Week 1 - .400 (NFCA Leadoff Classic), Week 2 - .462 (Cardinal Classic), Week 3 - .353 (Mary Nutter Classic), Week 4 - .364 (Oregon Classic), Week - .375 (Jane Sanders Classic), Week 6 - .300 (Penn State), Week 7 - .353 (Purdue/Indiana), Week 8 -.444 (Northwestern) and Week 9 - .400 (Iowa).

BUTLER CLEANS UP ON DOUBLES, RBI
Elon Butler leads the Big Ten and is third nationally with a career-high 16 doubles. That's tied for fifth on the UO single season list and just two off the school record. She also has three six-RBI games this season and a fourth game with five runs driven in to lead the Ducks with 48 RBI. With 12 home runs this season, Butler now has recorded double digit home runs all four years in college.

GETTING THE RUNNER HOME FROM THIRD
Oregon leads the NCAA with a program tying 27 sacrifice flies. Emma Cox leads the team with six. Amari Harper and Stefini Ma'ake have five apiece. Rylee McCoy has three and Addison Amaral, Elon Butler and Kaylynn Jones all have two.