Diamond Ducks Sunday action: Baseball cools, softball stays hot

Both baseball and softball had already secured series victories by the end of Saturday, the question was, could they break out the brooms for a sweep?

Unfortunately for baseball the answer was no. After nabbing consecutive victories against #12 Arizona State that handed the Sun Devils their first series loss of the season, Oregon fell in a 9-6 battle that wasn’t put away until the ninth inning.

The Ducks held the lead through six but in the seventh inning Arizona State brought in four runs to capture a lead they would not relinquish. Still, a score by Tanner Smith off a bases-loaded error kept the lead at only one run, and a scoreless eighth inning made it anyone’s ballgame heading into the…