Ducks unleash big first inning.Byline: Shawn Miller The Register-Guard Something catching, in a good way, was transmitted around the Oregon softball softball, variant of baseball played with a larger ball on a smaller field. Invented (1888) in Chicago as an indoor game, it was at various times called indoor baseball, mush ball, playground ball, kitten ball, and, because it was also played by women, ladies' team Wednesday. UO SOFTBALL Six different players recorded a hit and all nine starters reached base as the Ducks (38-8, 3-5 Pac-10) snapped a three-game losing streak by defeating Portland State 11-1 in five innings INNINGS, estates. Lands gained from the sea by draining. Cunn. L. Dict. h. t.; Law of Sewers, 31. . "(Hitting) is so contagious contagious /con·ta·gious/ (-jus) capable of being transmitted from one individual to another, as a contagious disease; communicable. con·ta·gious adj. 1. Of or relating to contagion. . Just like attitudes are contagious; good or bad, it's going," said backup catcher Courtney Shlee, who smashed her first collegiate col·le·giate adj. 1. Of, relating to, or held to resemble a college. 2. Of, for, or typical of college students. 3. Of or relating to a collegiate church. home run in the third inning in·ning n. 1. a. Baseball One of nine divisions or periods of a regulation game, in which each team has a turn at bat as limited by three outs. b. innings (used with a sing. . "If you're hitting good, everybody's hitting good. You got one person on fire, it's going to catch the rest of the team on fire." In the first inning Oregon scored seven runs - more than its last three games combined - highlighted by the team's first grand slam grand slam n. 1. The winning of all the tricks during the play of one hand in bridge and other whist-derived card games. 2. Sports The winning of all the major or specified events, especially on a professional circuit. of the season. After Suzie Barnes began the inning with an infield single, Sari-Jane Jenkins popped out before Jenn Salling and Ann Marie Topps each walked to load the bases. Neena Bryant then drilled a 1-0 pitch directly over the 220-foot sign in center field. "I was seeing the ball pretty good for the beginning of the game," Bryant said. "It just came pretty easy." Then Joanna Joanna, in the Bible Joanna, in the New Testament. 1 Wife of Herod's steward Chuza. She was a follower of Jesus and was one who found the tomb empty. 2 Ancestor of St. Joseph. Gail walked, Amie Morris also walked and Blair Williamson reached base on an error. Gail scored on the error before Morris and Williamson scored on a double by Barnes off the right-field fence. After Carlyn Re popped out to begin the third inning for the Ducks, Shlee knocked the ball over the left-field fence with a fluid swing on a full count. "It was the easiest swing I've ever done," Shlee said. "I honestly just extended my hands and it went out." Williamson then hit an infield single before Barnes reached on an error. Jenkins followed with a two-run double into the right-field gap. The Ducks added a run in the fourth on an RBI RBI abbr. Baseball runs batted in Noun 1. rbi - a run that is the result of the batter's performance; "he had more than 100 rbi last season" run batted in single by Re, which scored Bryant - who was hit by a pitch to begin the inning. Portland State scored its lone run on a two-out, two-strike RBI single by Kimi Daniel in the fifth. It was the 19th straight home game for the Ducks, who resume conference play Friday at No. 9 Arizona State. "This is how we want to go in, is feeling better with a lot more confidence," said Oregon coach Kathy Arendsen, whose team has lost five of its last six conference games. Oregon was without Alicia Cook - the Ducks' ace - for the second consecutive game on Wednesday. Arendsen said Cook, who has been battling a stomach virus for much of the past 3 1/2 weeks, will not play this weekend. |
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