The freshman leads Oregon with 37 points, and the Ducks have gone 10-2 since she began starting.

Last week, Drummond scored seven goals in one game against Cal, a 13-12 Oregon loss, that set a program record and is the highest mark this season in the MPSF. She won MPSF player of the week awards for that.

Also, Ilsa van den Berg, Cara Mead, Anna Poponyak and Alicia Burkhart were named to all-MPSF teams. It is the third time for such an honor for van den Berg and Burkhart and is the first for Mead and Poponyak, both fifth-year seniors.

The newly ranked, No. 18 Ducks (11-4) lost to Cal on Friday 13-12 on overtime to lose the team’s first game since March 26. Its 11th win ties the UO record for regular season wins with last season’s team. 

The Ducks outscored the Gaels 9-3 by halftime and 8-7 in the second half. 

Six Ducks scored, led by freshman Catherine Davidson’ four goals and one assist to tie for a team-high five points. Freshman Bina Barrett took advantage of more playing time to score two goals and had three assists. 

Oregon played all three of its goalies to spread the minutes around, with Anna Poponyak playing the entire first half before giving way to Sam Debow and Hannah Jones in the second. 

Oregon led 4-0 before the Gaels scored, which started the Ducks on two more goals. 

In the second half Oregon scored four straight goals to pull ahead 13-5 with 13:28 remaining in the game. 

The game was Oregon’s final regular-season contest of the season before playing in the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation tournament beginning Wednesday in Palo Alto, Calif.

The Ducks bounced back from a 13-12 loss to Cal in three overtimes in Berkeley on Friday. It wasn’t in spite of Jana Drummond, who set an Oregon record with seven goals in the game. Her last gave Oregon a 12-11 lead in the second overtime. 

Ilsa van den Berg scored two points that make her the program’s all-time leader in points, passing assistant coach and former teammate Jen Derby, with 186 points.

Freshmen sister starters Jana and Jess Drummond combined  to score six goals Saturday in Oregon’s 15-10 win over Virginia Tech. The win gives Oregon its 10th win of the season, and drops the Hokies to 7-8.

“We played for our seniors today,” Jess Drummond said. “It’s really exciting to know that I had an impact on the team today.”

Five of those goals came in the second half, when Oregon was able to finally create a gap between itself and the Hokies.  The Ducks scored the last four goals to turn a game that was 11-10 with 4:30 remaining in the game into a much more comfortable affair.

Ilsa van den Berg, one of six  seniors honored, missed all three free position shots she shot to begin the game, and the Ducks as a whole were similarly frustrated early. The Hokies took a 4-1 lead by the 14:23 mark of the first half before the Ducks scored six of the next seven goals to regain momentum. Two of those goals were by van den Berg, who converted a free position goal to bring the game to 4-3 with 8:40 left, then barged through four defenders to the goal to bring Oregon to tie the game at five goals apiece three minutes later.

“Nothing’s sweeter than beating a team on their Senior Day so we definitely knew Virginia Tech would be out for blood,” van den Berg said. “I didn’t get worried. We’ve come back in games from being down and being poised and finished.”

Goalkeeper Anna Poponyak, a fifth-year senior, extended her career saves mark by surpassing 500 saves on a save with 4:35 left in the game. Five seconds later, however, Virginia Tech scored.

Oregon’s victory came nearly a year to the day after last year’s Senior Day win on April 13 over Saint Mary’s that also gave the Ducks their 10th win of the season.

“You can’t even explain how awesome it is,” Drummond said.

They also had a talented, and large, group of seniors to rely on who had played at Oregon since the program’s inception. 

This year six seniors are back, but make way for 16 freshmen. Larsen said this year dealing with all the freshmen hasn’t been like it was four years ago, when she not only had freshmen to train, but a program to market and a city to get used to its program.

“It’s nice because of the personalities we have. Going into the fall we didn’t know what he personality of our team was going to be because half of it was new. It’s been really refreshing to have that new energy.”

Oregon begins its season this Saturday, Feb. 7, at Papé Field against No. 19 Stanford. The Cardinal own a 5-1 record against Oregon, and this is the fifth straight year the Ducks have opened up against the team. 2010 will be different, Larsen said, because the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation has agreed to move all league games to April.

 The Ducks will bring back several key members, including Ilsa van den Berg on offense, where she set numerous offensive school records last year including points and goals. Larsen said she has a better supporting cast around her this year than even last year, and thought she’d have no problem becoming the main target of other teams.