Oregon Ducks baseball

The Oregon Ducks baseball team represents the University of Oregon in NCAA Division I college baseball in the Big Ten Conference. The home games are played on campus at PK Park.^[2]

Oregon Ducks baseball
2025 Oregon Ducks baseball team
Founded	1877, 148 years ago
University	University of Oregon
Head coach	Mark Wasikowski (6th season)
Conference	Big Ten
Location	Eugene, Oregon
Home stadium	PK Park (Capacity: 5,000)
Nickname	Ducks
Colors	Green and yellow[1]
College World Series appearances
1954
NCAA regional champions
2012, 2023, 2024
NCAA tournament appearances
1954, 1964, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
Conference tournament champions
2023
Conference regular season champions
1918, 1928, 1934, 1935, 1937, 1939, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1946, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1957, 2025

History

Oregon played its first baseball game in 1877 and established the program in 1885.^[3]

The UO team made one College World Series appearance, in 1954, and was eliminated from the tournament after losing to Arizona and Massachusetts. A decade later in 1964, in the re-organized Athletic Association of Western Universities, Oregon was once again North Division champions,^[4][5][6] but lost at defending national champion USC in the district finals (today's super-regionals).^[7]

After the 1981 season, baseball and three other varsity sports were dropped by the university (men's gymnastics, women's golf, and women's soccer) due to a budget crisis,^[3][8][9] and baseball became a club sport in March 1983.^[10]

In July 2007, the university announced that it would again field a varsity baseball team, beginning with the 2009 season. One reason was the success of the rival Oregon State Beavers,^[11][12][13] who had repeated as College World Series champions a month earlier.

In the Ducks' first game in PK Park, they defeated the defending national champions, the Fresno State Bulldogs, 1–0 on a walk-off single by senior Andrew Schmidt. A sellout crowd of 2,777 was on hand for the game.^[14] After his eleventh season in 2019, head coach George Horton and the Ducks mutually agreed to part ways on May 28.^[15] Two weeks later on June 11, it was announced that Mark Wasikowski was the successor; he was previously an assistant at Oregon from 2012 through 2016, then was the head coach at Purdue in the Big Ten Conference.^[16] In his first full season as head coach of the Ducks, they hosted a regional as the 13th seed and finished second behind LSU.

Stadium

Hosting BYU in March 2011

The Ducks previously played baseball at Howe Field (44.041°N 123.074°W / 44.041; -123.074),^[9] south of McArthur Court, named in 1936 for Dr. Herbert Crombie Howe (1872–1940), the former chairman of the English department. Howe started teaching at UO in 1901 and was its original faculty representative to the Pacific Coast Conference in 1915, partially responsible for the league's founding.^[17] When the university dropped baseball after the 1981 season, the succeeding club team continued at Howe; in 1987, the field was converted to use by the softball team and later remodeled and renamed Jane Sanders Stadium.^[18][19][20] Softball was formerly played at Amazon Park, a city-owned park in Eugene.^[21]

Baseball became a club sport in 1983 and Oregon was the only Pac-10 school without a varsity baseball program through 2008. Following the reinstatement of baseball, announced in 2007,^[11] the university built PK Park, directly northeast of Autzen Stadium, formerly paved parking spaces. It opened for the Ducks in 2009 and since 2010, the park is also home for the minor league Eugene Emeralds of the High-A Northwest League,^[2] whose season runs from April through early-September.

Yearly Awards

Pac-12 Player of the Year

• Aaron Zavala (2021)

Pac-12 Pitcher of the Year

• Alex Keudell (2011)

Yearly results

Oregon notes their first year of baseball as 1877, with 1906 as the first recorded season.^[22]

Year	Coach	Record	Notes
1906	J. B. Knapp
1907	Hugo Bezdek
1908	H. B. Leonard
1909	Tom Kelly	6–3–1
1910	Tom Kelly	6–4–1
1911	Tom Kelly	9–6
1912	Homer Jamison	8–0
1913	Homer Jamison
1914	Hugo Bezdek	11–3
1915	Hugo Bezdek	6–3
1916	Hugo Bezdek	5–4
1917	Hugo Bezdek
1918	Dean Walker	10–2
1919	Shy Huntington	1–6
1920	Shy Huntington	11–9
1921	George Bohler	6–13
1922	George Bohler	2–15
1923	George Bohler	3–15
1924	Bill Reinhart	6–12–1
1925	Bill Reinhart	5–7
1926	Bill Reinhart	4–4
1927	Bill Reinhart	3–9
1928	Bill Reinhart	11–4
1929	Bill Reinhart	8–9
1930	Bill Reinhart	15–7
1931	Bill Reinhart	8–10
1932	Bill Reinhart	5–10
1933	Bill Reinhart	7–6
1934	Bill Reinhart	16–6
1935	Bill Reinhart	14–8
1936	Howard Hobson	13–11
1937	Howard Hobson	13–3
1938	Howard Hobson	17–9
1939	Howard Hobson	20–7
1940	Howard Hobson	17–11
1941	Howard Hobson	15–6
1942	Howard Hobson	20–5
1943	Howard Hobson	15–7
1944	Howard Hobson
1945	Howard Hobson
1946	Howard Hobson	18–9–1
1947	Howard Hobson	19–7
1948	Don Kirsch	12–6
1949	Don Kirsch	18–7
1950	Don Kirsch	12–11
1951	Don Kirsch	14–14
1952	Don Kirsch	19–12
1953	Don Kirsch	15–4
1954	Don Kirsch	18–8	11–5 in PCC North Div., 1st place,[23] District 8 champion (now super regional),[24] College World Series, 7th (tie)
1955	Don Kirsch	18–8
1956	Don Kirsch	18–8
1957	Don Kirsch	24–9–1
1958	Don Kirsch	19–8
1959	Don Kirsch	19–11
1960	Don Kirsch	12–7
1961	Don Kirsch	19–9
1962	Don Kirsch	29–9–1
1963	Don Kirsch	25–7
1964	Don Kirsch	31–11	11–5 in AAWU North Div., 1st place,[4] runner-up in District 8 (now super regional)[7]
1965	Don Kirsch	27–8–1
1966	Don Kirsch	21–18
1967	Don Kirsch	16–14
1968	Don Kirsch	25–15–1
1969	Don Kirsch	22–19
1970	Don Kirsch
1971	Mel Krause	19–18
1972	Mel Krause	24–13
1973	Mel Krause	23–13
1974	Mel Krause	26–19
1975	Mel Krause	20–19
1976	Mel Krause	20–18
1977	Mel Krause	14–27
1978	Mel Krause	23–24
1979	Mel Krause	29–27–1
1980	Mel Krause	19–21
1981	Mel Krause	16–21	does not include 2 wins vs. Lane CC – dropped program[3][8]
No varsity team from 1982–2008 (27 seasons), club sport only
2009	George Horton	14–42	4–23 in Pac-10, 10th place
2010	George Horton	40–24	13–14 in Pac-10, 5th place (tie), second at Regional
2011	George Horton	33–26	11–16 in Pac-10, 8th place
2012	George Horton	46–19	19–11 in Pac-12, 3rd place, hosted Regional and Super Regional
2013	George Horton	48–16	22–8 in Pac-12, 2nd place, hosted Regional
2014	George Horton	44–20	18–12 in Pac-12, 4th place, second at Regional
2015	George Horton	38–25	16–14 in Pac-12, 6th place, third at Regional
2016	George Horton	29–26	14–16 in Pac-12, 8th place (tie)
2017	George Horton	30–25	12–18 in Pac-12, 8th place
2018	George Horton	26–29	12–18 in Pac-12, 8th place (tie)
2019	George Horton	27–29	10–19 in Pac-12, 9th place
2020	Mark Wasikowski	8–7	0–0 in Pac-12, *Season cancelled due to Covid-19
2021	Mark Wasikowski	39–16	20–10 in Pac-12, 2nd Place, hosted Regional
2022	Mark Wasikowski	36–25	18–12 in Pac-12, 4th place, third at Regional
2023	Mark Wasikowski	41–22	16–14 in Pac-12, 6th Place, hosted Super Regional
2024	Mark Wasikowski	40–20	19–11 in Pac-12, 3rd Place, Super Regional

Oregon in the Pac-12 tournament

Year	Record	Pct	Seed	Notes
2022	0-2	.00	4th
2023	4-0	1.00	6th	Tournament Champions
2024	0-2	.00	4th

Oregon in the NCAA tournament

• The NCAA Division I baseball tournament started in 1947.
• The format of the tournament has changed through the years.

Year	Record	Pct	Nat'l seed	Notes
1954	3–2	.600		District 8 champion, College World Series (7th)
1964	0–2	.000		District 8 runner-up (super regional)
2010	2–2	.500		finished second in Regional
2012	4–2	.667	5	Regional and Super Regional host
2013	3–2	.600	8	Regional host
2014	2–2	.500		finished second in Regional
2015	1–2	.333		finished third in Regional
2021	2–2	.500	13	Regional host
2022	1–2	.333		finished third in Regional
2023	4–2	.667		Super Regional host
2024	3–2	.600		Super Regional
2025	0–2	.000	12	finished fourth in Regional
TOTALS	25–22	.532

Former players

• Robby Ahlstrom
• Tyler Anderson
• Earl Averill Jr.
• Steve Baker
• Hunter Breault
• Tom Dodd
• Kyle Garlick
• Joe Gordon, Hall of Famer as a second baseman
• Ryon Healy
• Cole Irvin
• Matt Krook
• Scott McGough
• Stephen Nogosek
• David Peterson
• Don Reynolds
• Dave Roberts
• Jimmie Sherfy
• Ray Smith
• Spencer Steer
• Zack Thornton
• Kenyon Yovan
• Aaron Zavala

See also

• List of NCAA Division I baseball programs