South African phenom, Nicole Louw, will be coming to Oregon. Nicole will be a freshman next year. Our women’s distance program has gone global. The comparisons to Jessica Hull seem inevitable!

Congratulations Nicole and welcome to Track Town!!!

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Mike and Adam give their answers in this week's Fact or Fiction

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Might be some issues at MSU

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/s...ommitted-multiple-ncaa-violations/4655797002/

As mentioned in the article in Oregon Live posted by Tar Heel, the men and women’s track teams have moved up in the national rankings this week. The men are ranked 5th
The women are ranked 7th


http://www.ustfccca.org/2020/02/featured/2020-ncaa-di-mens-indoor-track-field-rating-index-week-4

http://www.ustfccca.org/2020/02/featured/2020-ncaa-di-womens-indoor-track-field-rating-index-week-4

Latest from Dale looking at the DB corps

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Here are my faves from last night's game via Tom Corno.

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In case you missed it bere is the commit impact article on Jayson Jones:

https://oregon.rivals.com/news/commit-impact-jayson-jones

And Ruthy P12 POW. Good news after good news....


https://www.oregonlive.com/ducks/

The loss of Donte Williams and Tre Watson led to his de-commitment:

https://n.rivals.com/news/four-star-anthony-beavers-back-on-market

Duck recruiting is gonna be fine, methinks:

https://www.nbcsports.com/northwest...ecruiting-staff?amp&__twitter_impression=true

As I suspected...just too many good “experienced” HCing candidates out there for Colorado to take another stab at an unproven rookie! There was just no way Avalos was a real candidate...just a name for the talking heads media...like an Oregon hat on the table a few years ago with recruits! No real substance...

Actually three if you count that we will be going down to LA in two weeks to cover the Rivals LA Camp. But here are two events Oregon has planned.

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Gained back some momentum with the Mountain school sweep this week.

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An interesting inside look from SI

https://www.si.com/college/2020/02/16/mel-tucker-colorado-michigan-state-football

Seven McGee in serious car accident...prayers!
Gonna be fine but extremely close call✅

Here the Ducks go tipping off second half of this weekend's tilt. Huge implications.

Is Colorado making a hard push for Avalos?

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Ducks Push Winning Streak to five

EUGENE, Ore. – The Oregon men’s tennis team ran its winning streak to five with Sunday’s 6-1 win over Nebraska at the UO Student Tennis. With the victory, the Ducks improve to 8-2 through their first 10 matches of the dual season. Oregon is now 6-1 on its home courts this year.

How It Happened: The Ducks took the early 1-0 lead by taking the doubles point. The team of Jesper Klöv-Nilsson and Riki Oshima were the first duo off the court with a 6-2 win at the No. 3 spot. Oregon clinched the first point of the match with an identical 6-2 score line from Brandon Lam and Charles Roberts on court two.

Junior Emmanuel Coste raced through the opening set of his singles match and came away with a 6-1, 6-3 win over Albert Sprlak-Puk at the No. 2 spot in the lineup. Freshman Luke Vandecasteele pushed the lead to 3-0 with a straight-set win (6-4, 6-2) at No. 5 singles. He closed out the victory winning the last five games of the match.

At the top of the lineup, sophomore Joshua Charlton improved to 18-5 this season with a 7-5, 6-3 win over Victor Moreno Lozano. He closed out match-clinching win with an ace. Charlton is the No. 29 player in the country and is now 8-1 in dual play.

With the match in hand, play continued on the remaining courts. The Ducks picked up their final two points with wins by senior Ty Gentry and junior Riki Oshima at No. 3 and 4 singles, respectively. Oshima is now 10-3 in singles play this season and becomes the fifth UO player to reach double figures in the win column.

Oregon 6, Nebraska 1

Doubles

1. #9 Ty Gentry/Joshua Charlton vs Andre Saleh/Albert Sprlak-Puk – 5-4 unfinished

2. Charles Roberts/Brandon Lam def. Patrick Cacciatore/William Gleason – 6-2

3. Riki Oshima/Jesper Klöv-Nilsson def. Shunya Maruyama/Victor Moreno Lozano – 6-2

Order of Finish: 3, 2

Singles

1. #29 Joshua Charlton def. Victor Moreno Lozano – 7-5, 6-3

2. Emmanuel Coste def. Albert Sprlak-Puk – 6-1, 6-3

3. Ty Gentry def. William Gleason – 2-6, 6-4, 6-4

4. Riki Oshima def. Andre Saleh – 6-4, 7-5

5. Luke Vandecasteele def. Patrick Cacciatore – 6-4, 6-2

6. Shunya Maruyama def. Jesper Klov-Nilsson – 7-6(4), 6-1

Order of Finish: 2, 5, 1*, 4, 6, 3

(* clincher)

Up Next: The Ducks are on the road next weekend for two matches in San Diego beginning with Friday’s neutral-site match against Loyola Marymount. Oregon’s next home match is Friday, Feb. 28, against top-ranked USC, the Pac-12 opener for both teams

From Oregon Communications: TEMPE, Ariz. – Anthony Hall was thrown out at home trying to score the tying run with two outs in the bottom of the ninth inning in a 6-5 San Diego win at Tempe Diablo Stadium in the Angels College Classic on Saturday.

How it Happened: With the Ducks down a run with runners on second and third and two outs, Sam Olsson lined a ball to right-center field that San Diego right fielder Michael Dixon caught. Hall tagged up from second and advanced to third before the throw from Dixon squirted away from the relay man and ended up near the pitcher’s mound.

Oregon head coach Mark Wasikowski waved Hall around third, while Toreros third baseman Adam Lopez scrambled for the ball before fielding it and throwing home to retire Hall and give San Diego (2-0) the win.

San Diego scored two runs in the top of the first to take the early lead, but the Ducks quickly answered with three of their own in the bottom half of the inning.

Three singles by Sam Novitske, Kenyon Yovan and an RBI single by Gabe Matthews got the Ducks on the board. Hall drove in Yovan with a ground out to the shortstop to tie the game. Aaron Zavala, who made his first career start at third base, followed with an RBI single scoring Matthews to give Oregon (0-2) the lead.

San Diego retook the lead in the top of the second, scoring two runs on three hits.

The Ducks bounced back in the bottom of the third. Yovan singled to lead off the inning and moved to third on a Matthews ground rule double down in the right-field corner. Hall scored Yovan with a sacrifice fly to center tying the game 4-4. Zavala gave the Ducks the lead again, 5-4, with a RBI single scoring Matthews.

San Diego tied the game at five in the top of the fifth on a Cody Jefferis single scoring Paul Kunst.

Oregon’s bullpen was once again solid. Brett Walker and Kolby Somers each threw two scoreless innings to keep the game tied, while allowing just two combined hits.

The Ducks loaded the bases in the eighth but could not score, before the Toreros took the lead in the top of the ninth.

Box Score Notes: Zavala went 3-for-4 with two RBI … With his 34th career double in the third inning, Matthews moved into a tie for fifth all-time in doubles with Brett Thomas (2011-13) ...Tanner Smith had his second outfield assist in as many days running his career total to seven, which is tied for fourth all-time with Steven Packard (2010, 2013-16) … He also extended his consecutive starts streak to 27 games … Sam Novitske extended his consecutive starts streak to 58 games … Peyton Fuller made his first career start, striking out four and giving up two earned runs in four innings … Jack Scanlon made his first career start as a Duck.

On Deck: Oregon faces Pepperdine in the Angels College Classic on Sunday at 10 a.m. Junior Robert Ahlstrom will start for the Ducks.