Official Site of the Ducks · Mar 18, 2016
Costa Red Hot Entering Pac-12 Play For Oregon Softball
Editor, GoDucks.com
She had her nails painted just so, and the right necklace picked out, and her favorite toe ring reliably in place.
Then, Koral Costa saw her name on the lineup card for a game at Louisiana earlier this season. Oregon’s superstitious center fielder, accustomed to hitting seventh, didn’t have to scan as far down to see her name this time.
There it was, in the No. 3 hole. Immediately, nerves crept in.
“I was worried, I’m not going to lie,” said Costa, who led the Ducks with 15 homers and an obscene 1.205 OPS as a junior last spring. “There was a lot of pressure, because I’ve never been in the three spot before.”
