EUGENE — Oregon softball added five walk-ons, including a member of the Ducks soccer team, to its 2019 roster.

Senior Baylee Bruner, who started 18 games for Oregon this past soccer season, was brought on as a pinch runner, which is not unusual in college softball.

Bailey Cook, a junior who was previously a student manager for the softball team, and freshmen infielder Katelyn Howard, outfielder Anna Mills and pitcher Kailey Krueger are also joining the Ducks this season.

Krueger, out of Wilsonville High School in West Linn, gives Oregon a right-handed arm to its pitching staff, which lost all three returning starters to transfers this offseason and has only left-handed sophomore transfers Jordan Dail and Maddie MacGrandle on scholarship.

Howard, Mills and Cook are all expected to add depth to a roster that now has 19 players, though senior outfield Darya Kaboli-Nejad is out for year with a torn ACL.

The Ducks open the season against Kansas at 10:30 a.m. PT on Friday (Pac-12 Network) as part of a five-game slate at the Kajikawa Classic in Tempe, Ariz.