History
Oregon fielded its first baseball program in 1876. The Ducks won the PCC-North Division championship 9 times between 1928 and 1946. They were overall PCC champions in 1954 after the conference had unified north and south divisions in the late 1940s. The PCC dissolved in 1958.
In 1964, in the re-organized Athletic Association of Western Universities, Oregon was once again North Division champions. The team made one College World Series appearance, in 1954, and was eliminated from the tournament after losing to Arizona and Massachusetts. In 1982, the team was downgraded to a club sport.
In July 2007, the university announced that Oregon would again field an NCAA Division I baseball team beginning with the 2009 season.
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.
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