Oregon rallied from a 7-1 deficit and scored 12 unanswered to clinch a series win at Washington State.
Josiah Cromwick went 4 for 5 with one of UO’s four home runs and four RBIs to lead the Ducks to a 13-7 win over the Cougars Sunday afternoon at Bailey-Brayton Field.
Rikuu Nishida, Tanner Smith and Carter Garate each homered for Oregon (11-7, 3-3 Pac-12), which got 8.2 scoreless innings of relief from Matthew Grabmann (3.0 IP), Matt Dallas (4.0 IP) and Josh Mollerus to make the comeback possible.
Nishida led off the game with a homer, then Washington State (14-5, 3-3) teed off on UO starter Jackson Pace for seven runs. A hit batter, single and walk loaded the bases for the Cougars, who got a two-run single, added two via an error, another RBI single and walk before Pace left after recording just one out. WSU plated two more in the frame but had just three more hits after the first.
Cromwick hit a two-run home run in the fourth, then Drew Cowley drove in a run and Smith hit a two-run homer to make it 7-6 in the fifth.
Cowley added an RBI double to tie it, then scored on a single by Sabin Ceballos to give the Ducks the lead. Cromwick hit a two-run single and Garate hit a three-run blast in a seven-run seventh.
Oregon returns to PK Park for a four-game series against Northwestern State beginning at 4 p.m. Friday.