The No. 9 ranked Oregon Ducks softball team traveled to Berkeley on Saturday and split their doubleheader with the No. 4-ranked Golden Bears of California.

The Ducks won the afternoon game 5-1, but then fell to Cal 3-1 in the evening matchup.

En route to a victory in the first game of the doubleheader, Oregon scored two runs in the fourth inning thanks to a Kaylan Howard solo homerun and RBI double from Samantha Pappas. The Ducks were able to tack on two more runs, one in the fifth and one in the sixth, respectively, and received another stellar pitching performance from Jessica Moore.

Moore was impressive once again for Oregon, and through her seven innings of work she struck out six, walked no one and the single run she gave up was unearned.

As dominant as the Ducks were in the afternoon game, the evening affair was a different story for Oregon.

Cal was able to establish a lead early, and as the game progressed to its latter stages, the scoreboard read 3-0 in favor the Golden Bears. The Ducks were able to put a run on the board in the fifth thanks to an RBI single from Alexa Peterson, but in the end it was simply just not enough to grab the evening victory.

On the horizon. Following the split of the Saturday doubleheader, the Ducks and Cal will meet again on Sunday at noon to complete the series in Northern California. After the completion of the series, Oregon will return to Eugene and prepare for a three-game series with the Arizona Wildcats next weekend.