Ducks going to Connecticut for regional
Posted on 01. Jun, 2010 at 1:20 am by Stake in Baseball, Oregon Ducks Baseball
Jorge Horton and his crew of baseballers are off to Connecticut to play the Huskies this Friday at 7pm. Pretty amazing what the Ducks have been able to do in just 2 year, but then again, if you throw enough money at something you should have success. Other playoff notes: Cal was some how given a 2 seed with only 29 wins, and the Bark Rats earned a 3 seed and will play Fla. Atlantic Friday at 1pm. UCONN is the only 2 seed to host a regional; reason was that teams from the NE get favoritism in hopes it creates interest and exposure. Then why not just make them a 1 seed? Who knows, who cares. JFP for the Quacks!
The Ducks will travel this week to Norwich, Conn., for their third postseason berth in school history. Oregon, which reinstated its baseball program in 2009 after a 28-year dismissal, heads to the postseason for the first time since a trip to the District VIII playoffs in 1964.
Connecticut, the No. 2 seed for the Norwich Regional is the host, while Florida State is the No. 1 seed. The Ducks are the No. 3 seed, while Central Connecticut State is the No. 4 seed.
Oregon will play Connecticut in Game 2 on Friday, with the start time TBA.
This will be Oregon head coach George Horton’s 12th appearance in the postseason, after making 11 trips to the playoffs in his 11 years at the helm at Cal State Fullerton.
Horton totaled a 55-26 record in his 11 postseason appearances, advancing out of the regional round on seven occasions.
Oregon finished the 2010 season with an overall record of 38-22, and a mark of 13-14 in the Pac-10 Conference, tying for fifth in the league standings.
The Ducks won five Pac-10 series, and finished the year with a 7-4 record against top-25 teams. Oregon was an even 3-3 against teams with a No. 1 ranking, and won its series taking 2-of-3 games at No. 1 UCLA (April 16-18). In total, Oregon won nine series on the season – four of which came on the road.
The national top eight seeds are Arizona St. (47-8), Texas (46-11), Florida (42-15), Coastal Carolina (51-7), Virginia (47-11), UCLA (43-13), Louisville (48-12) and Georgia Tech (45-13).
The Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC), Pacific-10 (Pac-10) and the Southeastern Conference led all conferences in the number of teams in the championship field with eight apiece. The marks for the ACC and the Pac-10 were conference all-time highs. The Big 12 had five and the Big East and Sun Belt had three teams.
Twenty-nine of the 64 teams were not in the field last year. Mercer, the Atlantic Sun Conference Tournament champion, is making the championship for the first time. New Mexico last was in the field in 1962 and Oregon is in the field for the first time since 1964, and only two years after reinstating the baseball program.
Miami (Florida) is in the field for the 38th consecutive year, extending its own record. Florida State is making its 33rd straight appearance, second all-time. Other long consecutive streaks: Cal State Fullerton (19), Rice (16), Oral Roberts (13) and Texas (12).
Courtesy of educk.com
10 Responses to “Ducks going to Connecticut for regional”
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Mick
01. Jun, 2010
The Ducks had a sick year this year considering they played in one of the top 3 conferences in the country. They were able to hang with just about everyone all year long. I’d love to see them get to a Super Regional and then have OSU get smoked by Florida this weekend!
3d
01. Jun, 2010
I’m doing my best to get excited for this but it ain’t happening yet. Is there an actual ‘buzz’ in Eugene over the regionals?
bbryan
01. Jun, 2010
Yeah what Mick said
Mick
01. Jun, 2010
If the town of Eugene isn’t all over the Ducks baseball team getting to the regional this year then that’s really weak sauce because they finally got baseball back after 26 year absence…. Guarantee that Denver will be bumping will pride when CU or CSU pulls their head out of their asses and brings back baseball as a varsity sport!
El Rey
01. Jun, 2010
There is ZERO buzz in Eugene.
A) It’s still new, so very few people can actually name a majority of the players.
B) Oregon peaked early in the season when in the span of a couple weeks they beat 5-3 against Fullerton, ASU and UCLA when they were all ranked #1 in the nation, wrapped around a series win @Stanford when they were top 10. I am pretty sure they are sub .500 the last 4-5 weeks.
C) It’s college baseball in Oregon, the weather sucks and sorry, having to pay $15 bucks to watch it at PK (no matter how nice it is) with $8 hot dogs and sodas, the UofO has driven off a sizable portion of baseball fans in Oregon that are used to paying $8 to sit right behind home plate and get $4 kielbasas for Ems games.
D) PING!!!!
Stake
01. Jun, 2010
The only buzz in Eugene is Joe G. pounding burgers and beer at the Cooler, nothing directly relating to baseball though…O/U for Joe’s jowls and weight come football season?
3D
01. Jun, 2010
I wouldn’t expect it to rival football, basketball, or even the track team buzz. Hell, track probably creates more of a buzz than the hoops team.
Are they at least selling the place out? Or coming close? PK looks sick as hell from the outside.
El Rey
02. Jun, 2010
D, I think the may have sold it out once or twice, but that’s it.
It didn’t help that when ASU was in town it was pissing the entire week, and all the games had delays. It didn’t help that the lone appearance by OSU was drizzling, and it was like a 6 o’clock first pitch on a Wednesday. The weather just sucked period. Hell it’s June and we’re expecting an inch of rain today….
If I had to guess, I would say they are getting 2,500-2,700 people a game, but the place holds over 4,000.
Stake
02. Jun, 2010
+1 Rey. Everything is pretty nice besides the actual surface. Brown colored plastic for dirt just cut it for me. I guess they save on a grounds keeper though. Its an f’n day care too, little punks running all around.
bbryan
02. Jun, 2010
For what it’s worth Oregon led the Pac-10 in attendence. No one gives a shit about college baseball in general is the main problem.