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‘You always want to go out and beat Oregon State,’ Connie McMurren (14-14) says.
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and beat Oregon State,” sopho
more pitcher Connie McMurren
(14-14) said. “We needed those
two games [against Arizona] to put
us in better standing in the Pac-10,
but were going to go out and get
them like we were before.”
The Beavers are also coming
into the game with a bad taste in
their mouths, having dropped the
final game of their home stand to
No. 4 Arizona State, 6-0. That loss
last three games. However, Gamez
is not overly concerned with the
lack of production, since the
Ducks faced three of the top pitch
ers in the conference by facing
Kirsten Voak, }ennie Finch and
Becky Lemke.
“We were being a lot more pa
tient later in the ball game (against
Arizona],” Gamez said. “But
when we have runners in scoring
position we have to make sure to
make good solid contact.”
Despite having faced some of
the best pitchers in the nation, the
Ducks still need to be more disci
dropped Ure
gon State half a
game behind
the Ducks in the
conference
standings.
“They are in a
situation where
they need to get
a couple of
wins, like we
are,” Gamez
(i They are in a
situation where they
need to get a couple of
wins, like we are.
Rick Gamez
head coach
plined at the
plate and not
swing at pitch
es out of the
zone because
the pitchers in
the Pac-10
know how to
capitalize on
mistakes,
Gamez said.
“ W o ’ r o
said. “So they are going to do what
ever they need to get some. ”
Despite the two losses, the Ducks
sit in fifth-place in the midst of the
standings. And McMurren, for one,
knows how important a strong sec
ond is to her team.
“We could easily have come
away 3-0 [last weekend}, so that
makes it a little hard to swallow
when you come away 1-2,” Mc
Murren said. “But I think we’re
doing a good job and we’re com
ing on strong late in the season and
that’s important.”
The first time these two teams
met in April, Tarrah Beyster got
the better of McMurren, 2-0. Both
hurlers threw great games, but an
error cost the Ducks the victory.
“Last time they played us here,
Connie gave them a run on a cou
ple walks and an error,” Gamez
said. “That hurts us, but we still
need to come out and swing the
bats better.”
Oregon is in the middle of a col
lective slump that has only pro
duced eight hits and one run in the
i...
swinging at pitches that are out of
the zone and pitches that we’re
taking are in the zone,” he said.
“We’ve got to be more aggressive
early in the count so we don’t
chase the pitches later in the
count.”
And there is no better way to
work out of a slump than in live
game action, Gamez said. The best
thing the Ducks can do is forget
about the past and concentrate on
the games ahead of them. Oregon
will host California and Stanford
this weekend.
“Now it just becomes a matter of
do we practice or do we play,"
Gamez said. “We’re just playing
another game, [and] we would
have been practicing anyway. ”
Both McMurren and freshman
Andrea Vidlund (16-4) continue to
throw well for the Ducks. McMur
ren picked up both a win and a
loss during the weekend, while
Vidlund got a loss despite throw
ing seven innings of three-hit ball
against No. 2 Arizona.
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