Fast Break: Baseball doesn’t need a theme park to ride a roller coaster

Students of Willamette play a game of pickup soccer with the ducks. Graphic by Alyssa Diggdon.

Hello, Bearcat Fan! While us NARPs were spring breaking, athletes were springing forth to break the enemy. Let’s see how it went!

Baseball defeated Corban, went 1-2 in a series against Linfield, lost to PLU 0-11, beat them 3-1 in the same day, then inverted the 11-0 result the next day. They are No. 3 in conference. 

Softball opted for a traditional approach to the break, taking the party to Florida. They racked up six wins of a possible seven against a myriad of East Coast schools. 

Track and field defeated cross-town rivals Corban. Steeley Mucken (ʼ26) bowed out of the decathlon at the Willamette Multi early, then was absent from the Willamette invitational. 

Men’s golf took No. 4 at the George Fox Invite behind Linfield, Whitman and Lewis & Clark. Another loss to Whitman spells dark clouds over the upcoming Spring Classic in Walla Walla.

The Whits pushed Men’s tennis 0-70 across the last 10 duals. Women’s tennis met equally disappointing results.

Eye on the conference: PLU Baseball defeated the University of Washington Huskies 3-1.

In the world of sport: The last perfect March Madness brackets have busted, the Portland Timbers are undefeated over the last three matches and the looming threat of Trump tariffs on Canada has complicated hockey-stick consumption. 

Consider in the coming weeks: Is Mucken out, can lacrosse fill their No. 1 coaches poll ranked shoes, and alternatively, hockey sticks? What’s next? The fabric of the world’s oldest constitutional republic?