The Ducks extended their winning streak to 11 games Friday night, riding seven shutout innings from Roseburg native Jace Stoffal to a 2-0 win over Oregon State before 3,224 fans at PK Park. Oregon has its longest win streak since the 1964 season, when that team put together a 12-game streak that the current team will look to match when the Beavers return to PK Park on Saturday at 3 p.m.
Stoffal (4-2) didn’t allow a baserunner until the fourth inning Friday, and he took a no-hitter into the seventh. He stranded two runners in the fourth after allowing a pair of one-out walks, and he got out of a bases-loaded, one-out jam in the seventh — in both cases stalking off the mound, shouting toward the UO dugout like a locomotive bellowing into the night air.
“I feel like I pitch better the more adrenaline I got,” said Stoffal, who struck out nine and walked three over seven one-hit innings. “If I can keep the emotions high but under control — I can’t get too wild — keep them under control but keep that adrenaline up, I feel like that’s when I’m at my best.”
The UO hitters, so prolific over the first 10 games of this winning streak, provided all the offense Stoffal needed in the fifth. With Gavin Grant on second with two out, Colby Shade got the Ducks on the board with an RBI single. Drew Cowley singled to move Shade over to third, and Sabin Ceballos followed with a run-scoring double for all the cushion Stoffal needed.
“It was awesome, but not surprising at the same time,” Shade said of Stoffal’s outing, which was originally scheduled to take place Thursday before the series opener was moved back a day by rain. “You see the work he puts in every day. Even him being upset yesterday that he didn’t get to go and kind of preparing again today, you knew he was gonna have a good outing today.”
How It Happened: The early innings were a classic pitchers’ duel between Stoffal and OSU’s Trent Sellers. The Ducks loaded the bases with nobody out in the second, but Sellers struck out the next three hitters to escape the jam and set the tone for the game.
“It felt like it was a Friday night game with two guys really going at it head to head,” UO coach Mark Wasikowski said. “Most Friday nights, that’s what it looks like. I thought that was a classic Friday night game, that we came out on top of.”
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