Wednesday, November 27, 1996

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Sharks rally to beat CaneFires

The Honolulu Sharks used a five-run seventh inning to post a 5-1 victory over the West Oahu CaneFires in a Hawaii Winter Baseball game last night at Rainbow Stadium.

Vashon Walker singled to start the seventh and, one out later, scored the tying run on Donovan Delaney's triple down the left-field line. After an intentional walk to Matt Smith and an unintentional walk to Jeremy Carr, Delaney scored the tie-breaking run when Mike Asche reached first on an error by West Oahu third baseman Brad Tiller.

Brad Fullmer's two-run singled closed out the scoring.

Jeff Martin, who played prep ball for Kailua High School, started for Honolulu and allowed three hits in five innings while striking out seven.

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Maui 10-4, Hilo 1-6

At Hilo, Mark Kotsay doubled twice and singled and Danny Clyburn ripped two triples to help the Stingrays roll in the first game at Francis Wong Stadium.

In the second game, the Stars wiped out a 4-0 Maui lead with a five-run fifth inning. Scott Hunter's two-run triple started the scoring and a two-run double by Ben Agbayani put Hilo ahead, 5-4.

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Box Score

Outrigger Division

		W    L     Pct.    GB
Honolulu	26   13    .667    --
West Oahu	14   22    .389   10-1/2

Volcano Division

		W    L     Pct.    GB
Maui		18   19    .486    -- 
Hilo		17   21    .447    1-1/2

Today's games

Maui vs. Hilo, 6 p.m., Francis Wong Stadium.

West Oahu vs. Honolulu, 6:55 p.m., Rainbow Stadium.

At Francis Wong Stadium

First game

Maui		130 024 0--10  13  0
Hilo		001 000 0-- 1   7  0

Doug Million, Mike Iglesias (6) and Ben Petrick; Jerrod Riggan, Brandon Villafuerte (5), Jim Baron (6), Sang Hyun Kim (7) and Virgil Chevalier. W-Million (2-2). L-Riggan (0-3).

Second game

Maui		012 010 0--4   7  1
Hilo		000 051 x--6  10  2

Mark Seaver, Masahiro Sakumoto (5) and Kenji Johjima; Kazuharu Yamazaki, Myung Ju Cha (6) and Hirotoshi Kitagawa. W-Yamazaki (1-2). L-Seaver (1-3).

At Rainbow Stadium

West Oahu	100 000 000--1  5  1
Honolulu	000 000 50x--5  8  3

Russ Ortiz, Tony Dougherty (7), Jason Myers (7), Dong Hee Park (8) and Craig Mayes; Jeffrey Martin, Kasuya Shibata (6), Takuichi Koike (8), Russell Jacobs (9) and Shunsuke Hara. W-Shibata (2-0). L-Dougherty (1-1).

Leading hitters-West Oahu: Matt Bokemeier, 2-4; Atsunori Inaba, 2b. Honolulu: Geoffrey Blum, 2-3; Donovan Delaney, 2-4, 3b; Brad Fullmer, 2 RBIs.