The Oregon Ducks prepare to host another Regional at Jane Sanders Stadium, where their hopes of making it back to the Women's College World Series will be put to the test.
Oregon Ducks softball is back in the NCAA Tournament and back at Jane Sanders Stadium. Coach Melyssa Lombardi’s squad is set to host the Eugene Regional for the second year in a row and looks to make it back to the Women’s College World Series.
The Mississippi State Bulldogs, the Saint Mary’s Gaels and the Idaho State Bengals will all be in Eugene competing for a spot in the Super Regionals. Below is what to know about the teams playing at Jane Sanders Stadium ahead of the weekend. Oregon coach Melyssa Lombardi. | Chris Pietsch/The Register-Guard / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images Like in years past, Oregon stumbled entering the postseason.
The Ducks would’ve had a strong case to earn a higher seeding and host a Super Regional if they won the Eugene Regional, but insteadThe Ducks still had a strong finish to the regular season and will look to get back on track as they attempt to make their second consecutive WCWS. Oregon played the ninth-most difficult schedule nationally, which could end up helping them against challenging postseason opponents in high-stakes meetings.
Oregon catcher Emma Cox makes contact as the Oregon Ducks host the Ohio State Buckeyes on April 24, 2026, at Jane Sanders Stadium in Eugene, Oregon. | Ben Lonergan/The Register-Guard / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images The first team that Oregon will match up with is a team it already played once this season. The Bengals played in Eugene in the Oregon Classic at the beginning of the season.
The Ducks won their meeting with Idaho State 4-3 in eight innings. Butler led the way in the previous matchup, going 3-for-4 with two RBI and two doubles, including the double that scored the game-winner. Idaho State returns to Eugene for its first NCAA Tournament in program history, following a win in the Big Sky Tournament. The Ducks are scheduled to play the Bengals at 7 p.m. PT on Friday in what will be the 12th meeting between the two.
Oregon is 10-1 in the first 11 matchups. Mississippi State head coach Samantha Ricketts is seen during the game against Mississippi at Alisa and Mark Bourne Stadium in Oxford, Miss. on Saturday, May 2, 2026. | Bruce Newman/Special to the Clarion Ledger / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images. The winner of that game will play the winner of Oregon vs. Idaho State, with the losers also playing each other.
If the Ducks and the Gaels end up playing each other at some point in the Eugene Regional, it will extend the all-time series to 27 meetings. Oregon holds the advantage all-time at 22-4. The Gaels are back in the NCAA postseason for the second time in the last three years after winning the West Coast Conference championship.in the Eugene Regional is Mississippi State.
Last season in was the tournament No. 5 seed, the Stanford Cardinal, that provided Oregon with a real challenge to advance deeper into the postseason, and it shouldn’t be any different with the Bulldogs as the No. 5 seed this year. Oregon won the last matchup 7-2 back in 2020, but the series is tied at 1-1. The Bulldogs are very familiar with the postseason, entering their 20th tournament appearance and eight of the last nine tournaments.
They played in an Eugene Regional back in 2012, although they never played the Ducks in that one. Lily Crane a reporter for Oregon Ducks on SI. Before attending the University of Oregon Journalism School of Communications, she grew up in Grants Pass, Oregon. She previously spent three years covering Ducks sports for the University of Oregon's student newspaper, The Daily Emerald.
Lily's also a play-by-play broadcaster for Big Ten Plus and the student radio station, KWVA 88.1 FM Eugene. She became the first woman in KWVA Sports history to be the primary voice of a team when she called Oregon soccer in 2024. Her voice has been heard over the airwaves calling various sports for Oregon, Bushnell University and Thurston High School athletics.
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