Softball team ends season Saturday
Photo by Mark Pynas
Oregon sophomore Mercy Sowa and her
teammates conclude their season this
weekend with double-headers against
Lewis and Clark, and Chemeketa.
By Paul Danzer
Of lha Emarald
Losers of six straight and nine of their
last 10, the Oregon softball team hopes
to end its season on a high note this
weekend
The Ducks hope to vent their
frustrations on Chemeketa Community
College and Lewis and Clark in home
double-headers Friday at 3 p m and
Saturday at noon
The Ducks will wrap up their season,
and hope to rap a few hits, as they try to
make their 6-13 record a little more re
spectable before it goes into the record
book
Lewis and Clark will be a welcome
sight for the Ducks, who have had
offensive troubles during their losing
streak In its only meeting with Lewis
and Clark this year, Oregon came up
with its most convincing win of the
season, 13-0 in Portland. The Ducks
have not played Chemeketa this
season
Portland State managed just two runs
in two games Wednesday at Erv Lind
Stadium in Portland, but that was all
the Viking women needed to sweep
a pair of 1-0 games from the strug
gling Ducks
Clutch pitching from Janet Wright and
Stephanie Heisler stifled the Vikings,
who will compete in the AIAW Division II
national tournament next week. But
when the Ducks got their turn to swing
the bats it was the same old story — no
output.
The only rattling Oregon’s bats did all
day was in the bat bag while they drove
home on Interstate 5 The Ducks com
pleted their four games at Erv Lind
Stadium this season without touching
home plate
The closest any Duck got to seeing
home was third base, as June Liu and
Vickie Hogan managed to get that far in
the third and fourth innings of the second
game But unfortunately for the Ducks,
none of their four hits came with people
in scoring position.
"We didn’t do that badly," said Oregon
coach Charles Sylvester, “we just didn’t
hit the ball." In comparison to their first
appearance at Erv Lind this spring, the
Ducks improved defensively on Wed
nesday, perhaps easing the coach’s
frustration.
In the opener Wright pitched herself
out of tight spots in the second, third,
and fourth innings before leadoff hitter
Patti Perkins lined a shot down the left
field line for a home run.
The Viks most serious threat before
that came when they loaded the bases
with one out in the third The threat was
squelched when Duck third baseman
Katie Hickey nabbed a hot shot off the
bat of PSU’s Karen Danko and threw to
the plate for the second out. Wright
struck out Whitney James to end the
inning
The Ducks’ only hit in the opener came
when Krista Parent beat out a bunt with
one out in the sixth. Meanwhile, PSU
mound ace Deb Fitzhugh was mystifying
Duck hitters, combining a lively fastball
with a tempting change-of-pace to strike
out 11 Oregon batters.
The Ducks found themselves behind
early in game two, as Perkins led off the
bottom of the first with a single, went to
second when Lisa Venneri reached base
on a throwing error by Duck shortstop
Hogan, and eventially scored on a
Delores Krumm sacrifice fly.
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