EUGENE, Ore.- Gonzaga Baseball (27-15) dropped a road midweek game to #13 Oregon (33-11), falling on the wrong side of one run game with a final score of 4-3.

Oregon threw most of their bullpen today, using nine total different pitchers, with every single pitcher throwing exactly one inning each. The Zags were very competitive with the highly ranked Ducks, outhitting Oregon seven to six.

Mickey McClaskey was fantastic in relief, tossing for 4.2 scoreless innings while allowing just two baserunners. McClaskey struck out five batters to keep the Zags in the game.

The Zags opened the scoring in the first thanks to a triple from Ricky Sanchez, who then score with astute baserunning on a wild pitch. Oregon responded by scoring three runs in the bottom of the innings thanks to back to back sacrifice flies and a home run. The Ducks tacked on another run in the second inning on their third sacrifice fly of the game. Gonzaga responded with a sacrifice fly of their own in the top of the third, with Mikey Bell bringing in Bo Shinkle to bring the score to four to two.

Pitching really dictated the middle of third of the game, as both teams were held hitless for three straight innings. Neither side got a base hit in the fourth, fifth or sixth innings.

Noah Meffert broke that streak of hitless innings in a big way, hitting a home run down the right field line in the top of the seventh inning to bring the deficit to one. Meffert now has eight home runs on the season.

The Zags had a threatening position in of the top of the eighth, as a leadoff walk by Sanchez, a single by Bell and a walk by Maddox Haley after a lengthy ten pitch at bat that resulted loaded the bases. Oregon's reliver got two straight strikeouts to get out of the jam without giving Gonzaga a tying run.  Oregon was able to close out the ninth, and the Zags came up just short from a road win against a top ranked team. The loss capped GU's recent win streak at 14 games, which goes down as a new program record.

The Zags will look toward conference play again this weekend, hosting Santa Clara. The first game of the series will take place at 6pm on Friday.