The Arizona Wildcats Baseball Team Beat the Ducks, Over and Over Again

Arizona Wildcats Baseball: Our Wildcats, now ranked, have been playing great baseball while a lot of us were focused on basketball.  Wildcat fans, time to turn our support and attention to our Wildcat Baseball team!

The Arizona Wildcat Baseball team is on a six game winning streak in the Pac-12 and is finally ranked in the  USA Today Coaches Poll at No. 22 kicking out the Oregon Ducks who were ranked No. 18.

The Arizona Wildcats are now also ranked No. 13 by BaseballNews.com (Collegiate Baseball Division I poll) and No. 25 by D1Baseball.com according to Assistant Director of Athletics – Operations for Arizona Athletics Matt Brown:

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This weekend the Cats took on the No. 18 ranked Oregon Ducks in a three game series.  While the basketball team was preparing and playing in the Elite Eight, the baseball team was continuing their winning streak.

The Wildcats won the Friday game 7-2. the Saturday game 9-5 and on Sunday, finished off the Ducks with a resounding 13-4 win to sweep the them in the series. In all, the Wildcats scored 29 total runs over the three games.  Nine different players scored the 13 runs with seven runs scored in the second inning, putting Arizona up 8-0. Note that of the nine players touching home plate, eight of them recorded at least one RBI (run batted in.) Impressive!

There were about 2,300 fans in the stands Sunday afternoon at Hi Corbett Field to witness this last game and resulting “sweep” of the Oregon Ducks.

Included in the crowd of fans was one of our valiant basketball players, Rondae Hollis-Jefferson, who stole some of the cheers away from Bobby Dalbec as he was about to swing away. It was nice for the fans on Twitter and in the stands to be able to share their adoration with a big member of the starting five, and it wasn’t lost on the Pac-12 Network (to watch and listen to the video, click Here : 

Assistant coach Josh Garcia made sure Tucson animal lovers were not upset by this first inning home run by second baseman Scott Kingery which went over the wall (possibly into the zoo.) Scott also hit a triple in the game, but this was his team leading sixth season home run and eight of his college career. :

Last season Arizona earned 22 wins in total with a record of 22-33 (9-21 in the Pac-12). Arizona is now 22-6 on the season (7-2 Pac-12), with 27 games left to play, most of which is against other ranked Pac-12 teams. The play of the game came from Bobby Dalbec as he hits a home run, brings in a run, the ball stuck itself into the home run area in the padding just to make sure it was counted:

After this 22nd win for the Wildcats, lets look at only some interesting facts via ArizonaWildcats.com:

• Arizona has swept consecutive Pac-12 Conference series for the first time since 2013
• The Wildcats sweep Oregon for the first time since 2009
• At 22-6 overall, the Wildcats match the 2007 club for the best start under Andy Lopez (since 2002)
• Arizona’s 7-2 start to league play is the best since 2012

Next up:

No. 22 Arizona vs. No. 9 USC Trojans

Three-game stand starting Thursday April 2, at 6:00PM MST/PST in Tucson at Hi Corbett Field.

Following two games in the series: Friday April 3, at 6:00PM, and Saturday April 4, at 12:00PM (Moved to Thursday for Easter Sunday)

So, Wildcat fans, you should go out and back your team this coming weekend. No issues with the sunshine or being too hot, it will just be your team who should keep on this roll and continue their “hot” winning streak.

BEARDOWN ARIZONA! BEAT THE TROJANS AND KEEP THIS WINNING STREAK GOING!

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