Monday, October 27, 1997

Apana helps Sharks
take two

Star-Bulletin staff

The Honolulu Sharks got shutout pitching from Matt Apana and Shin Minami in the second game to complete a Hawaii Winter Baseball doubleheader sweep from the Hilo Stars, 6-3, 6-0, before 1,353 fans at Rainbow Stadium yesterday.

The Sharks built a 6-0 lead after four innings in the opener. Damon Minor started the scoring with a homer over the left-field wall in the second and Robert Fick finished it with a three-run triple down the left-field line in the fourth.

Hilo reliever Trevor Schaffer's scoreless innings streak ended at 92/3 when Jonathan Rivers tripled home a run in the third.

In the second game, Apana went the first four innings allowing two hits, no walks while fanning two. Minami gave up just one hit over the final three innings.

Gabe Kapler hit a bases-loaded, two-run single in the third for the Sharks.

CaneFires 9-1, Stingrays, 5-2: At Wailuku, West Oahu scored four runs in the top of the ninth to win the extra-inning opener. Only one CaneFire run in the game was earned as the Stingrays made six errors, three in the ninth.

Terrance Long had three of West Oahu's 12 hits. Calvin Pickering hit his fourth home run of the season for the Stingrays.

Joe Mathis scored Maui's winning run, also unearned, in the fourth inning of the second game on a wild pitch by Masaki Daito.

Mathis had reached base when Long dropped his fly ball in center field and advanced to third on a single by Carlos Casimiro.

Hawaii Winter Baseball

Outrigger Division

	  	W	L	Pct.	GB
Honolulu 	10	6	.625	--
West Oahu 	7	9	.438	3

Volcano Division

	  	W	L	Pct.	GB
Maui 		9	7	.563	--
Hilo	 	6	10	.375	3

Today's games

No games scheduled

Tomorrow's games

Honolulu (Jason Grilli, 1-1) vs. Maui (Kevin Gryboski, 0-1), 10:30 a.m., Iron Maehara Stadium.

Hilo (Jeff Kelly, 0-1) vs. West Oahu (Keith Evans, 1-1), 6:30 p.m., Hans L'Orange Park.

Sharks 6, Stars 3

First game

Hilo	  	000	010	2--3	8	0
Honolulu 	021	300	x--6	10	1

Takao Inoue, Jason Temple (6) and Dave Schmidt; Motoyuki Akahori, Yusaku Iriki (6) and Robert Fick. W--Akahori (3-0). L--Inoue (0-3).

Leading hitters--Hilo: Brian McClure, 2-4; Schmidt, 2-2; Michael Zywica, 2-2, 2b; Mark Budzinski, 2b, 2 RBI. Honolulu: Norm Hutchins, 2-4; Brent Abernathy, 2-4, Fick, 3b, 3 RBI; Damon Minor, HR; Nelson Castro, 2-3, 2b.

Sharks 6, Stars 0

Second game

Hilo	  	000	000	0--0	3	1
Honolulu 	021	300	x--6	7	1

R.A. Dickey, Brian O'Connor (3), Trevor Schaffer (4), Mark Grater (5) and Tucker Barr; Matt Apana, Shin Minami (5) and Guiseppe Chiaramonte. W--Minami (1-0). L--O'Connor (0-1).

Leading hitters--Hilo: Budzinski, 2-3. Honolulu: Jonathan Rivers, 3b; Gabe Kapler, 2-3, 3 RBI; Nelson, 2-3.

CaneFires 9, Stingrays 5

First game, 9 innings

West Oahu 	005	000	004--9	12	1
Maui	  	201	101	000--5	9	6

Hiroshi Yamada, Teddy Warrecker (4), Paul Ah Yat (5), Phil Grundy (6) and Pee Wee Lopez, Steve Lomasney (7); Julio Manon, Jake Viano (3), J.J. Pearsall (6), David Lee (7), Mike McCutcheon (9) and Casey Snow. W--Grundy (2-1). L--Lee (0-1).

Leading hitters--West Oahu: Terrance Long, 3-5, 2b; Nobuihiko Matsunaka, 2-5; Mike Barrett, 2-6, 2b; Fletcher Bates, 2-4; Chad Whitaker, 2-3, 2b, 2 RBI; Lopez, 2b. Maui: Calvin Pickering, 2-3, HR, 2 RBI.

Stingrays 2, CaneFires 1

Second game

West Oahu 	010	000	0--1	2	1
Maui	  	010	100	x--2	8	1

Shinji Kurano, Masaki Daito (4), Joe Lisio (5) and Lomasney; Scott Randall, Ryan Kohlmeier (7) and Jay Jones. W--Randall (1-0. L--Kurano (0-1). Sv--Kohlmeier (4).

Leading hitters--Maui: Joe Funaro, 2b; Jones, 2b.

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