EUGENE, Ore. – Stanford’s historic 2025 season came to a close tonight in the Eugene Regional final, dropping a pair of games to the hosting No. 16 Oregon. The 42-13 campaign marked the Cardinal’s first season in the ACC, as well as a season spent with home games played at Stanford Stadium while a new state-of-the-art softball stadium is built.
Oregon struck first in game one, pushing a pair of runs across in the top of the first to go ahead 2-0. But in the bottom of the frame, Stanford answered right back. The Cardinal scored a pair of unearned runs, as Taryn Kern and River Mahler each came home on wild pitches to tie the game.
The Ducks added five more to go ahead in the top of the second, making it a 7-2 game.
Allie Clements answered for the Cardinal, hitting a two-out homer to left-center and cutting the deficit to 7-3. The long ball was her eighth of the season and second in as many games.
After Zoe Prystajko kept the Ducks scoreless in the third and fourth, Clements drove in another run with an RBI single in the bottom of the fourth. Kern followed it up with a sacrifice fly, bringing the score to 7-5.
Oregon struck again for five runs in the fifth inning and three in the sixth to make it a 15-5 final in the first game of the day.
Stanford wasted no time in starting game two – Joie Economides crushed a grand slam in the first inning for an early 4-0 lead.
After Oregon responded with three runs in the bottom of the second, Economides stepped into the box again with runners on. This time, the freshman crushed a three-run homer to make it a 7-3 game.
Oregon picked up two runs in the third and one in the fifth to cut the Cardinal lead to just one run at 7-6, then tied the game at seven in the sixth inning.
A three-run homer from the Ducks in the bottom of the seventh walked it off, with a final score of 10-7.
The two losses end the Cardinal’s historic season with a 42-13 record. The 2025 Stanford squad set program records for runs scored (448) and home runs hit (101), as well as the NCAA softball single-game attendance record with 13,207 fans at Stanford Stadium for the April 19 game against California.
POSTGAME NOTES:
- Stanford ends the season at 42-13 overall.
- Senior Allie Clements’ home run in game one was her eighth of the season and 11th of her career.
- Clements has now homered in back-to-back games, and three of the last five.
- Freshman Joie Economides’ two home runs today give her 15 on the season, second on the team and the third-most in a season in program history.
- The Cardinal ends the season with program records for runs scored (448) and home runs (101).