Notes: No. 3 Ducks Visit No. 11 Utah

EUGENE, Ore. - No. 3 ranked Oregon's first Pac-12 road series of the season is a big one against No. 11 ranked Utah in Salt Lake City.

#3 OREGON DUCKS (27-0, 3-0 Pac-12)
Team BA: .375 | Team ERA: 1.12 | Runs Scored: 212 | Runs Allowed: 36
Recently: Remained undefeated after sweeping No. 23 ranked Cal to open Pac-12 play
National Rankings: UO is No. 3 in both the NFCA and USA Softball polls
All-Time Series Record: Oregon leads, 25-10 (Ducks have won 18 of last 19 games)
Last Year: No. 3 Oregon took two of three games against Utah in Eugene
Notable: The Ducks are the NCAA's last remaining undefeated team with a perfect 27-0 record thus far in the season. It is the longest winning streak in program history, topping the previous mark of 18 games. The longest winning streak in both Pac-12 and NCAA history is 47 games, set by Arizona over the 1996 and 1997 seasons. The Ducks are getting it done at both the plate and in the circle. Oregon's .375 team batting average ranks No. 2 in the NCAA this season while the team's .471 on-base percentage leads the country. The Ducks' collective 1.12 ERA ranks ninth in the country.

#11 UTAH UTES (21-4, 3-0 Pac-12)
Team BA: .334 | Team ERA: 1.02 | Runs Scored: 112 | Runs Allowed: 67
Recently: The Utes impressively swept No. 10 ranked UCLA in Los Angeles last weekend
National Rankings: Utah is ranked No. 11 in the NFCA and No. 13 in USA Softball
Head Coach: Amy Hogue (17th Season)
Notable: Utah has put up numbers similar to Oregon this season, both at the plate and in the circle The Utes rank fourth in the NCAA with a 1.02 earned run average and are hitting .334, good for 17th in the nation. Hannah Flippen leads the Pac-12, slugging .842 this year with six homers and a team-high 31 RBIs. Utah's pitching staff has 129 strikeouts in 157.2 innings with only 26 walks. Pac-12 pitcher of the week, Miranda Viramontes, has a 0.76 ERA with just four walks and five earned runs allowed in 46.0 innings. Last weekend in a sweep of UCLA, Viramontes won twice with one run allowed on nine hits and no walks in 11 innings.

BROADCAST INFO
- All three of Oregon's game at Utah will be on one of the Pac-12 Network channels. Saturday's game will be on Pac-12 Oregon while Sunday and Monday will be on Pac-12 National in addition to Pac-12 Oregon.

LAST UNDEFEATED TEAM
At 27-0, Oregon is the last undefeated team in NCAA Div. I softball. Arizona, Florida and Florida State have all lost just once.

LONGEST WINNING STREAK
With an 8-2 victory against Stephen F. Austin last weekend at the Mizzou Tournament, the Ducks set a new program record for consuective wins at 19. The Ducks now have won 27 straight games. Oregon won 18 straight games last season, which matched the previous record. The Ducks also won 18 straight games in 2007.

LAST WEEKEND
Oregon went 5-0 over the weekend at its Oregon Invitational. The Ducks won via run-rule in four of the five contests. Oregon scored 54 runs while allowing just four at the Oregon Invitational.
- OF Sammie Puentes had a huge weekend, going 6-for-7 with five walks as she hit .857.
- OF Danica Mercado also had a big weekend, going 10-for-16 with a tournament-high seven runs scored.
- In the circle, RHP Megan Kleist did not allowed a run over two shutout, five-inning run-rule wins. She allowed just eight hits in 10 innings with one walk and 17 strikeouts.

WHEN PLAYING UTAH
- Oregon leads the all-time series, 25-10.
- Oregon won the series last season, 2-1
- The Ducks had won 17 straight games against the Utes, dating back to 2007, before falling in the second game of the series in Eugene last season.
- Since Utah joined the Pac-12 for the 2012 season, Oregon is 14-1 against the Utes.

LAST YEAR AGAINST UTAH
Oregon closed out the regular season at home against Utah, taking 2-of-3 games and clinch its fourth straight Pac-12 championship.
- Oregon needed one win going into the series to clinch the title and the Ducks got in in the first game. UO won, 5-1, as Geri Ann Glasco went 3-for-3 with a double and two RBIs. Cheridan Hawkins tossed a complete game with one run on five hits and four strikeouts.
- Utah won the second game of the series, 3-2. The Utes scored all three of their runs on solo home runs. Megan Kleist took the loss after alloing three runs (two earned) on seven hits in 5.1 innings.
- Oregon rebounded with a game three win, 3-2, to clinch the series. Jenna Lilley hit a game-winning two-run single in the fifth to get the win. Cheridan Hawkins tossed a complete game with two runs allowed (none earned) on five hits with seven strikeouts.

RANDOM FACT
Utah played the longest game in NCAA history in 1991 when the Utes and Creighton went 31 innings. Utah left an NCAA record 34 runners on base. Utah had a NCAA record 114 at-bats in the game. Amazingly, the teams played a 25 inning game the following day. Utah had 93 at-bats in that contest, the fifth-most in NCAA history.