Saturday was a perfect day for sports, with the sun shining in crystal-clear skies. After a great afternoon for the Spring Game, the sun draped the baseball and softball games, which were also in Eugene. The positive football vibes must have carried over into our Diamond Ducks, as they both came out on the winning side of their contests. Here is how the action went down:
Elise Sokolsky started in the circle for the Ducks in Game 2. While the Buckeyes were able to score runs again on our pitching, Oregon’s bats woke up from yesterday’s nap as the Ducks came from behind to overtake Ohio State and even the series, 13-6.
Oregon’s offense earned Sokolsky her seventh win of the season, and Lyndsey Grein picked up her first save.
In the first few innings, the game felt uncomfortably the same as yesterday, with the Buckeyes scoring first in the opening inning before adding three more in the third to take a 4-0 lead. OSU went up 2-0 on an inside the park home run:
T3 | SPEEDY SKY GETS FOUR ⛽️Limon turns on the jets for an inside the park home run!OSU 2, Oregon 0 | #GoBucks pic.twitter.com/3grEybsdpD
— Ohio State Softball (@OhioStateSB) April 25, 2026
A fielding error scored the next run, followed by a sacrifice grounder.
T3 | RB(ewick)I 🤝Sami drives in Taylor with a sac grounder!OSU 4, Oregon 0 | #GoBucks pic.twitter.com/NH3W9rNjMu
— Ohio State Softball (@OhioStateSB) April 25, 2026
Oregon did not score in the first three innings, but in the bottom of the fourth Elon Butler decided that her bat had been silent long enough, and let it rip.
Elon Butler fires up the Ducks with a 3-run home run!E4 | Buckeyes 4, Ducks 3#GoDucks | #Version♾️ pic.twitter.com/JOW72pPuB3
OSU went up 5-3 off a home run in the fifth inning, but Emma Cox tied the game in the bottom of the inning with a two-run homer.
EMMA COX – That nearly cleared the netting in left!B5 | Ducks 5, Buckeyes 5#GoDucks | #Version♾️ pic.twitter.com/m3xCnsk8bJ
Oregon then moved ahead when the Buckeyes succumbed to fielding yips.
The throw home is wide and THE DUCKS TAKE THE LEAD!!!B5 | Ducks 6, Buckeyes 5#GoDucks | #Version♾️ pic.twitter.com/xXqP14FIYf
A sacrifice fly gave the Ducks a 7-5 lead to close the fifth inning.
Grein came in to pitch in the sixth inning, gave up her obligatory home run, and the Buckeyes pulled to within one.
Emma Cox said “No comebacks on my watch!” and immediately fired off her second 2-run homer in as many innings. (Curiously, Amari Harper walked as the first batter in the fifth and sixth inning, and was sent home by Cox).
Second home run of the day for Emma Cox!B6 | Ducks 9, Buckeyes 6#GoDucks | #Version♾️ pic.twitter.com/rNgMuLc39h
Later in the bottom of the inning, with the bases loaded, Katie Flannery hit her first home run of the season.