It took extra innings to decide the mid-week Civil War baseball game, and it was decided on a 12th inning Jeff Hendrix sac fly off Jordan Spencer, Oregon’s seventh pitcher of the night. The Beavers won 4-3.

Both teams had opportunities to score before extra play began, but timely pitching and defense kept the score deadlocked at 3 for seven innings.

In the eighth, Shaun Chase hit a one-out double to right and was replaced by Desmond Santos. Pinch hitter Josh Graham singled to left and Santos headed home, where he was called out. Left fielder Michael Conforto made a perfect throw to Logan Ice, and Santos was iced, keeping the score tied.

“Conforto can beat you in a lot of different ways,” Oregon coach George Horton said. “He’s got a real strong, accurate throwing arm and he does a lot of things when it matters the most. He’s a great player.”

The Beavers had a chance to take the lead in the 11th. With the bases loaded and one out, pinch hitter Nick Rulli hit a hard ground ball that was scooped up by Santos at short, and he began a 6-4-3 double play to retire the side.

Relief pitcher Jordan Spencer gave up a single, walk and hit a batter in the 12th to load the bases for Hendrix, who drove in the eventual game-winning run.

The Ducks had one last chance to extend the game in the bottom of the 12th, as Aaron Payne was at third with two outs. Kyle Garlick grounded out to end the game, and Oregon’s 16-game home winning streak.

“It weas an endurance contest for sure,” Horton said. “A lot of sloppiness on both sides, a lot of free bases and ultimately it came down to a walk, a hit batter and a sac fly. We had some shots … very disappointing loss for us.”

In total, 13 pitchers and 25 position players were used in the game, which included seven runs, 22 hits and four errors as well as 26 runners left on base.

“I feel like we had opportunities and didn’t capitalize on them,” third baseman Mitchell Tolman said. Tolman went 2-for-6 in the game.

Stephen Nogosek made his fist start on the mound this season after making 13 relief appearances. After a long first inning in which Nogosek threw nearly 40 pitches, the right-hander settled down and was in command for the next two innings.

His outing would be a short one, though, as he was pulled after three innings of work, in which he gave up one run on five hits with no walks and six strikeouts.

Oregon State’s starting pitcher was Dylan Davis, who made his third start of the year. Davis pitched two innings and stayed int the game as the designated hitter, going 1-for-4 at the plate.

Oregon State struck first in the opening inning. Hendrix led off with a double and was quickly brought home by Andy Peterson.

Oregon answered in the second when Chase scored on a wild pitch with the bases loaded.

In the third, Garlick scored Payne with a sacrifice fly.

The Beavers re-took the lead in the fourth off Cooper Stiles when Hendrix doubled home Trever Morrison and Caleb Hamilton. Hendrix finished 2-for-7 with 3 RBI.

Oregon tied the score in the bottom of the inning on a Beaver mistake. Austin Grebeck scored on what should have been a routine ground out. Peterson corralled a Payne ground ball, made the throw to first which was dropped by first baseman Gabe Clark.

Chase continued his hot hitting with a 2-for-3 night that included a single, double and a walk.

Shortstop Kevin Minjares, starting in place of injured Mark Karaviotis, went 2-for-3 with two singles.

Conforto, who entered the game with a conference-leading .410 batting average, went 2-for-6.

Scott Shultz (6-2) picked up the win after tossing 4.1 inning of relief. Jordan Spencer (1-1) got the loss.

Oregon plays Portland Wednesday before heading to Tucson, where they’ll play three games against Arizona State.

Noteworthy:

Starting shortstop Mark Karaviotis should be ready to play Friday, according to Horton. Karaviotis has missed the last  two games with a hamstring injury.

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Before Friday night’s series opener against Arizona, the Oregon baseball team hadn’t hit a home run since April 17 against Washington State. Shaun Chase hit two Friday night and Oregon hit a total of five home runs during the three game set, a sweep for the home team.

The power surge was a rarity for the Ducks, who hadn’t hit more than two homers in any other series this season.

“I think we hunted elevation and we got our swings off,” said Chase, who hit three home runs in the series. “We weren’t timid and it was just a good series for us I guess”

The Ducks went deep in each game of the weekend series, bringing their win-loss record to 16-0 when hitting a home run this season. Adversely, the team is 17-13 when failing to connect on the long ball.

“I guess (it’s a key for us),” Oregon coach George Horton said. “That’s a pretty good stat.”

The perfect record was in jeopardy until the eighth inning of Sunday’s 5-1 victory.

With a 1-0 lead in tact, the Ducks loaded the bases with one out for Chase, who crushed a ball over the left-center field fence for a grand slam. The blast was Chase’s conference-leading eighth homer of the season.

“When guys are leaving pitches up I know Shaun Chase can do a lot of damage,” said third baseman Mitchell Tolman, who hit a solo home run in the sixth inning. “He’s probably got more power than I know of anyone else.”

Quietly, the Ducks rank second in the conference in home runs (20) but don’t often hit them in bunches as they did this weekend. The last time Oregon hitters went deep in consecutive games was earlier this season, when they hit home runs in three straight games against Loyola Marymount and Portland.

For a team that’s earned a reputation of having stellar pitching and defense while executing small ball and gap-to-gap hitting, Oregon has seen most of its success this season when displaying fireworks.

Despite that, the coaching staff still stresses a “get on top” mentality at the plate.

“(Assistant) coach (Mark Wasikowski) was really disappointed in the guys for hitting too many fly balls,” Horton said. “We hit a lot of lazy fly balls and then Mitch hits one on the (Player Development Area in right field). Coach ‘Was’ asked me to talk to the hitters, I think he was at with’s end in trying to get them to do what he wanted them to do and he lit them up pretty good on Friday… sometimes coaches are too full of themselves and they think they’re too important. It always comes down to the players doing things.”

Certainly the Ducks need to combine home runs with strong pitching, defense and fundamentals, but, inherently perhaps, Oregon seems to get fired up and react well whenever a player goes deep.

“I think whenever a guy hits a home run you feel good,” Horton said.

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– Five Oregon women’s lacrosse players earned All-MPSF honors, the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation announced Tuesday. Senior Shannon Propst and sophomore Alison Scharkey were first-team selections, and seniors Caroline Federighi and Nikki Puszcz and sophomore Carly O’Connell were named to the second team. Propst is the all-time program leader in points and assists (216, 111) and is 26th nationally with four points per game. Oregon and USC will meet at 6 p.m. on Thursday in the MPSF Championship Tournament.

– Oregon distance runner Edward Cheserek was named the Pac-12 Men’s Track Athlete of the Week on Tuesday after helping two Oregon relay teams win at the Penn Relays last weekend. The freshman standout competed in the 4xMile relay and the men’s distance medley relay. For his performance, Cheserek was honored as the Penn Relays college athlete of the meet as well as the USTFCCCA National Athlete of the Week Monday.

– On his 17th birthday, 4-star men’s basketball recruit Kendall Small announced via twitter his commitment to play for the Oregon Ducks beginning in 2015. The point guard from Lakewood, California averaged 21.1 points, 3.1 assists, 5.7 rebounds and 3.4 steals his junior season for Mayfair High School.

– The No. 1 ranked Oregon softball team swept Utah Valley State in a doubleheader Tuesday afternoon to improve to 46-5 on the season. After winning game one 8-0, the Ducks were helped by Koral Costa’s sixth inning home run to pull out a 5-4 victory. The Ducks continue their march toward Oklahoma City this weekend, with a three-game series at home against No. 3 Arizona State.

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The Oregon baseball team (31-13, 10-8 Pac-12) tallied one hit off of Oregon State (31-8, 14-4) starting pitcher Jace Fry and lost 7-1, giving the Beavers a sweep of the Ducks in the three-game set at Goss Stadium in Corvallis this weekend.

Fry (8-1) recorded 11 strikeouts over eight innings of work and allowed three walks. The one run he allowed was unearned. The junior left-hander induced 11 groundouts and two flyouts.

Oregon’s lone hit came in the first inning, an Austin Grebeck single with one out. Getting runners on base was a recurring theme for the Ducks, who left runners on in each of the first six innings.

The Ducks scored their run in the fifth inning when Tyler Baumgartner reached on an error, allowing Aaron Payne to score from second.

Oregon State scored in each of the first three innings, but had its biggest inning in the second.

Michael Howard scored on Logan Ice’s groundout, and he was followed by Trever Morrison, who singled home Billy King.

Two batters later with the bases loaded, Michael Conforto drove in his second run of the game when he was plunked by Oregon starter Trent Paddon. Paddon (1-3) was subsequently yanked, ending his outing after 1.2 innings. Reliever Stephen Nogosek recorded the final out of the inning to end the threat.

Paddon, who was given the starting nod over Brando Tessar, gave up four earned runs on two hits with two walks and no strikeouts.

As a whole, Oregon’s pitching staff walked seven and struck out two on the day, both fans coming courtesy of Tessar in relief.

Oregon State tacked on two more in the sixth off of Oregon’s Jordan Spencer. Andy Peterson’s RBI single scored Jeff Hendrix, and Peterson scored three batters later on Howard’s RBI single.

No Oregon batters reached base over the final three innings. Oregon State’s Brandon Jackson  retired the side in order in the ninth to end the game and complete the sweep.

Oregon State holds a firm lead of first place in the Pac-12 conference with the win and Oregon remains fourth with less than a month left in the regular season.

The in-state rivals face-off two more times this season, May 6 and May 20, at PK Park.

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Jeff Gold tied the NCAA lead for victories (9-0) as No. 23 Oregon baseball bested Washington State 6-3 with clutch two-out hitting.

Five of Oregon’s six runs came with two outs, started by Steven Packard’s perfectly executed bunt with two outs to score Mitchell Tolman in the fourth. After Shaun Chase walked to load the bases, Austin Grebeck brought home all three runners on a double down the left field line, giving Oregon (30-10, 9-5 Pac-12) a 5-1 lead.

“The past couple of at-bats I hadn’t really proven that I could hit a fastball,” Grebeck said. “I knew I had a pretty good chance of getting a fastball and I was just ready to square something up.”

The Ducks added on in the sixth with another two-out RBI base hit, courtesy of Mark Karaviotis, who singled home Chase.

Oregon’s offense didn’t get off to such a hot start, however.

Washington State (17-18, 7-7) starting pitcher Tanner Chleborad (2-4) retired the Ducks in order through three innings and was in command until Oregon’s big fourth inning.

“He was pretty sharp early and we didn’t have spectacular at-bats,” Oregon coach George Horton said. “The kid was making good pitches. He had good stuff.”

Gold, meanwhile, wasn’t as sharp as usual but mostly got himself out of trouble.

In the top of the fifth, Gold was tagged for two runs after he gave up a hit, hit a batter and gave up a walk to load the bases with one out. After inducing a popout, Gold gave up a two-run double off the wall to Yale Rosen. Grebeck played the hop off the wall and threw to Karaviotis, who relayed the throw out the runner at home, saving a run and ending the inning.

“The big deal was Grebeck picking the bounce off the wall clean, hitting Karavitios and making an accurate throw and killing that inning right there because the two (runs) could’ve been more, so great defense right there,” Horton said.

Gold lasted seven innings, giving up three runs (two earned) on six hits with a walk and two strikeouts. With the win, Gold ties East Carolina’s Ryan Williams (9-2), Florida Gulf Coast’s Michael Murray (9-0), Texas-Pan American’s Sam Street (9-0) and Liberty’s Trey Lambert (9-1) for the most pitching victories in Division I baseball this season.

“No, not at all. Not even a little bit,” Gold said when asked if he paid attention to wins standings.

Oregon clinched the series win over the Cougars and will conclude the series tomorrow at 2 p.m.

Noteworthy:

– The victory was George Horton’s 700th as a Division I head baseball coach.

– Gold walked one batter, bringing his total to five on the season. He currently holds a 9:1 strikeout-to-walk ratio.

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The University of Oregon club freestyle ski and snowboard team won its first competition at Mt. Bachelor on Sunday. Three riders from UO Snow took home individual awards and the team bested Oregon State to win the overall team category at Battle for Bachelor.

“I’m so happy about it,” said Briggs Chapman, UO Snow coordinator and winner of best male skier. “Our brain child of a competition finally played out, and that was the first competition I’ve been involved in with UO Snow.”

Battle for Bachelor was a jam format and open to all college students, whether affiliated with a team or not. Each rider had an hour and a half to get in as many runs as possible, each of which was scored by judges. The individuals with the highest scores won prizes and the team with the most total points was recognized as the overall team winner.

UO Snow rider Nick Hughes was named best male snowboarder and took home a jacket, beanie, sunglasses and a face mask all provided by various sponsors.

“I was so surprised and pretty humbled — thankful almost,” Hughes said. “I haven’t been able to ride with the UO Snow team a ton, but we had a really nice team bonding time in Sunriver and then to be able to go ride with all them in this competition, it felt good to win like that.”

Also with UO Snow, Austin Gebhard threw down the most creative line and was surprised.

“I was really stoked, though I was honestly really surprised,” Gebhard said. “I had no idea that I was going to win that. It was super exciting, especially doing it against OSU. They were all super cool dudes but there was definitely some good competition and the fact that we came out on top was definitely exciting.”

Being a jam format, riders didn’t have time to stop and watch teammates and competitors complete their runs, making the final results all the more exhilarating.

“I’m not sure what the other people were throwing down,” Hughes said. “As far as understanding where you are in the competition you’re really pretty blind, it was really like another day in the park.”

The event is planned to take place again next year around the same time. Chapman said it wouldn’t have been possible without Stirling Cobb, marketing assistant at Mt. Bachelor, and sponsors BlackStrap (Bend, Ore.), Bosky Optics (Corvallis, Ore.), Tactics Boardshop (Eugene), Homeschool Snowboarding (Portland) and Sandboxland (Whistler, B.C., Canada.)

“We came up with the concept and pitched it to Stirling and he set up the whole competition,” Chapman said.

Along with competing in Battle for Bachelor and spending two nights together as a team in Sunriver, Ore., UO Snow competed in the 10 Barrel Bonk and Small Air Comp, in which UO Snow rider Ellie Bartlett won a $50 gift card to 10 Barrel Brewing.

UO Snow coordinator Rick Lindfors said that overall it couldn’t have gone better, and he hopes to get more competitors at the event next season.

“Great weekend all around,” Lindfors said. “Everyone involved had a great time with it. Everyone rode the course and I came back with all my guys. Overall I couldn’t be happier with it.”

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Tyler Baumgartner hit his first home run of the season and Oregon baseball (27-10, 7-5 Pac-12) came from behind to win 6-5 and complete the sweep of UC Riverside.

Baumgartner’s solo shot was the first of two runs the Ducks scored in the sixth inning to tie the score at three. Baumgartner hit a towering fly ball down the right field line that easily cleared the fence. What was unclear was which side of the foul pole it crossed. First base umpire Mike Whitty originally called it foul, but after an all-umpire conference, the call was reversed.

“I didn’t know if it was fair or not,” Baumgartner said. “Off the bat it looked like it was going to hook foul but it stayed fair.”

Oregon head coach George Horton asked the umpires to get together.

“I saw that it was close, then when I came out I saw (assistant coach) Brett (Hambright’s) reaction,” Horton said. “I think with the reversal of the call they got the call right.”

Mitchell Tolman followed Baumgartner with a double and scored on J.B. Bryant’s pinch-hit single four batters later.

In the seventh, Baumgartner hit a one-out double and Tolman was plunked to put two on. Kyle Garlick doubled to right-center on a 3-0 fastball, scoring both runners, and advanced to third on the throw home. The big hit gave Oregon its first lead since 1-0 in the first.

“I was just looking for a fastball, something up in the zone,” Garlick said. “I knew he had a pretty good breaking ball and he threw it a couple times in the dirt and then got to 3-0 and (coach Mark Wasikowski) gave me the green light. I just took a good swing at it … 3-0 is an automatic take unless you get the green light so I was pumped when he gave me (the green light).

Horton said Garlick handled a 3-0 count like a trained professional.

“Coach (Wasikowski) let Garlick hit 3-0 and he stayed short, used the right-center gap like a trained professional,” Horton said. “A lot of times when you let young hitters hit 3-0 they get sloppy, they get long, try to hook and think about the spectacular at-bat and (Kyle’s) was spot on. That might have been the difference in the game.”

Catcher Shaun Chase perfectly executed a squeeze bunt to score Garlick from third and increase Oregon’s lead to 6-3.

With two outs in the ninth, Highlanders first baseman Francisco Tellez hit a two-run homer to right-center off closer Jake Reed to keep Riverside’s hopes alive. Reed got Nick Vilter to pop out to end the game.

Freshman Trent Paddon made his first Oregon start and lasted four innings, giving up three earned runs on six hits with no walks and three strikeouts. Paddon ran into trouble in the fourth. After throwing eight consecutive strikes, Paddon hit David Andriese and gave up a double to Matthew Ellis, giving Riverside runners on second and third. Drake Zarate singled home both runners, giving the Highlanders their first runs of the ballgame.

Paddon was yanked after one batter in the fourth but pitched well enough to earn another Sunday start if Matt Krook is still injured, according to Horton.

“Was I pleased with him? Yeah. He was walking the tightrope a little bit and they were getting pretty good swings so we had (Jordan) Spencer fresh and I thought that was enough for him … Hopefully, he can build on that and get deeper into the game next weekend.”

That being said, Horton recognized room for improvement in his young hurler, noting that “his secondary pitches weren’t too sharp.”

“I think a lot of the time I would throw two of my better pitches and get two strikes then I would have count leverage and I would throw not as good quality of a pitch and they really punished me today on my pitches that weren’t quality,” Paddon said.

Spencer, Darrell Hunter (3-1), Porter Clayton and Reed combined to pitch the final six innings.

Aaron Payne scored Oregon’s first run in the bottom of the first on Tolman’s RBI single after he was hit my a pitch and stole second. The steal was Payne’s 40th in his Oregon career, tying Donnie Reynolds for the school record.

The Ducks host San Diego (25-10, 10-4 West Coast Conference) for one game on Monday afternoon before welcoming Washington State to town for a Thursday-Saturday three-game set.

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Oregon baseball (24-10, 7-5 Pac-12) hosts UC Riverside (14-14, 3-3 Big West) this weekend at PK Park for a three-game series. The Ducks are coming off a two-game sweep of Portland and play each of their next four games against non-conference opponents.

The major question that’s being asked around Oregon baseball is, “who will replace Matt Krook in the starting rotation?” The freshman injured his throwing arm in Saturday’s game at Washington and will not play against Riverside this weekend. He will receive an MRI Friday. Usual Sunday starter Jeff Gold will move to Krook’s vacated Saturday starter slot and freshman Trent Paddon will make his first career start on Sunday.

“It’s not everyday you her that as a freshman,” Paddon said before practice Thursday. “It’s exciting so we’ll see.”

In 11 relief appearances this season, Paddon is 0-2 with a 2.78 ERA in 22.2 innings pitched.

“He’s been in the long relief role so he’s conditioned in terms of number of pitches and the quality of pitches,” pitching coach Dean Stile said. “He’s got three good pitches that he has command of — fastball, changeup, slider … It’s just a natural move for him.”

Brando Tessar, who picked up a shutout win over Portland Wednesday, will start Oregon’s single game against San Diego on Monday.

“I think Brando Tessar, who threw really well yesterday, will come back and get the ball if he’s ready, willing and able on Monday,” head coach George Horton said. “It wasn’t like he was Roy Halladay when he was really good but he was good. That was one of his best starts in a couple years. He touched 90 miles per hour, all three of his pitches were better and he got better as the game went along so we hope that’s a spring board for him and it conitues to go that direction.”

With Krook out for the foreseeable future, the catcher position may go into more flux than it already was. Each of Oregon’s three catchers see playing time and freshman Jack Kruger had an especially strong rapport with Krook. Horton noted that Kruger and Shaun Chase have set themselves apart, but there’s no set rotation set in place in lieu of Krook’s injury.

“We’ll think about that,” Horton said. “Shaun Chase has said, ‘hey look at me, I’m the best catcher.’ He’s going from a guy with potential power to a hitter right before our eyes . He gives you some of the things that Kruger and (Josh) Graham don’t give you. He has a good rapport with pitchers and the guy that’s calling pitches. Shaun’s really developing, coming on and it’s going to be tough to keep him out of there … Kruger caught a shutout yesterday. The catcher’s job is to put zeros on the board.”

Chase is hitting .306 this season and leads the team with four home runs.

The Highlanders are led offensively by junior third baseman Nick Vilter, who’s hitting .366 with eight home runs and 24 RBIs. As a team, Riverside is hitting .286 and Vilter is complemented by Francisco Tellez (.386, 27 RBI, 11 doubles). The Highlanders are aggressive on the basepaths with 45 stolen bases, led by speedsters Joe Chavez (12 steals) and David Andriese (10).

Andrew Bantly and Victor Flores contributed to the reporting in this article.

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The Ducks rallied in the ninth and even loaded the bases, but couldn’t overcome eight offensively anemic innings, falling to Washington 1-0.

After Aaron Payne and A.J. Balta were sat down to start the top of the ninth, Oregon was down to its final out against Huskies closer Troy Rallings. Tyler Baumgartner kept hope alive with a chopper that bounced over the head of third baseman Alex Schmidt for a single. Baumgartner stole second with Mitchell Tolman at bat, who would ultimately draw a walk to make the steal moot. Kyle Garlick hit a dribbler off the mound that rolled to a stop midway between the mound and second base, resulting in an infield single. With the bases loaded and two outs, pinch hitter Shaun Chase struck a hard line drive to left, but it fell harmlessly into the glove of left fielder Kyle London.

The Ducks totaled five hits in the game, two of which came in the ninth. Washington pitchers struck out 12 Oregon hitters, 10 coming courtesy of starting pitcher Tyler Davis (6-1), who tossed 7.2 innings with three hits allowed.

Oregon starter Matt Krook was in control before leaving the game in the third inning with an apparent injury. According to the Oregonian’s Tyson Alger, Krook “had stiffness in his throwing arm,” which head coach George Horton cited as the reason for Krook’s early departure. Over 2.1 innings pitched, Krook allowed zero runs on one hit with four strikeouts.

Trent Paddon (0-2) pitched well in long relief, yielding a run on a single hit with two walks and three strikeouts but was saddled with the loss. Paddon came in for Krook and walked Andrew Ely, who advanced to second on a wild pitch and scored on a double by Robert Pehl.

Oregon had runners in scoring position in the fifth and eighth innings but they were stranded as Davis continued his dominant performance.

Washington was on the verge of expanding its lead in the eighth. Jordan Spencer retired the first two hitters in order before walking Pehl to keep the Huskies’ inning alive. Porter Clayton replaced Spencer and immediately struggled, allowing pinch runner London to reach third base on a failed pick off attempt that got away from Balta at first base. Brian Wolfe walked and Trevor Mitsui was plunked to load the bases. Horton then called on Stephen Nogosek, who got Branden Berry to fly out.

The Ducks (22-9, 7-4 Pac-12) and Huskies (21-6, 9-3) will conclude their three-game series Sunday afternoon. With the win, Washington retains its position atop the conference.

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– Women’s basketball standout Jillian Alleyne was awarded honorable mention All-America honors by The Associated Press, the first Oregon player to receive the honor since Shaquala Williams in 2002. The sophomore led the nation in rebounds per game (16.8) and double-doubles (29) this season and became the fifth player in NCAA history to grab 500 rebounds in a single season. Alleyne broke several Oregon records and is the sixth player in program history to receive All-America honors.

– Oregon assistant men’s basketball coach Brian Fish is leaving the program to become the head coach at Montana State. After four years at Oregon and 15 with Dana Altman, Fish was named as the 22nd head coach in Bobcats history by athletic director Peter Fields. Fish has made stops at Marshall, his alma mater, Kansas State, Creighton, San Diego and Texas Christian University.

– Third-ranked Oregon softball swept a double header over UC Santa Barbara on Tuesday, improving to 32-4 on the season and has won five straight. In game one, Alexa Peterson won the game in the eighth with a walk-off RBI single, scoring Courtney Ceo from third, giving the Ducks their second walk-off win in a row following Kailee Cuico’s game-winning homer against Washington in the series finale. In game two, the Ducks were aided by a monster second inning when they plated seven runs, highlighted by Cuico’s eighth home run of the season, a grand slam. Oregon hosts top ranked UCLA this weekend for a three-game series.

– The Oregon baseball team beat Gonzaga 3-2 last night thanks to a steady bullpen and manufacturing runs. Ducks third baseman Mitchell Tolman collected two hits, and A.J. Balta and J.B. Bryant had an RBI apiece. Starting pitcher Jordan Spencer picked up his first win of the season (1-0) and closer Jake Reed closed the door in the ninth to pick up his sixth save.

– Softball pitcher Cheridan Hawkins was named the Louisville Slugger/NFCA Division I National Player of the Week on Tuesday. The sophomore takes home her second national player of the week honor this season and was named as the Pac-12 Pitcher of the Week on Monday. Hawkins was instrumental in Oregon’s sweep of No. 5 Washington, pitching 14.2 innings with 11 strikeouts and a 0.95 ERA during the series.

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