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Whether this season mirrors that one or proves to be the season the Ducks finally make a run at a playoff berth will be determined by a crop of young, talented but ultimately unproven players.

“We have a team now to make a run at making the playoffs. That’s just kind of the mindset we are all trying to have.”

If all the pieces fall in place, and they couple a star-studded offense with the right combination of pitching, the team could make a run at its second World Series title in the last five seasons.

Ishika Varipilli, who hoped to make a run at the trophy this year in her third and final attempt, bowed out in a tie for 47th after missing a vocabulary word, “swanky,” and said afterward she was “trying to keep it together.”

Even SMU appeared to make a run at Musselman, before setting its sights on Enfield at USC.