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Monday, February 21, 2000
’Bows take series
from Santa Clara
Hawaii wins second
By Al Chase
series of season
Star-BulletinThe University of Hawaii baseball team finally won its second series of the season yesterday behind Rich Snider's best pitching performance as a Rainbow.
The 5-foot-10 senior right-hander had a no-hitter for six innings. He lost the shutout and a chance for Hawaii's first complete game of 2000 with two outs in the ninth.
The Rainbow hitters made life easy for Snider by scoring three runs in the first inning and five more in the second in a 13-2 win.
The Rainbows (5-10) won two of the three games from Santa Clara (3-8) by hitting .350 as a team and, for the most part, getting timely hits with men on base.
Matt Queen's single to left to start the seventh was the Broncos first hit. It came off a slider that caught too much of the plate.
After the first two Broncos singled in the ninth, Snider retired Travis Hinton on a groundout and fanned Chris Jakubauskas. But Jack Headley drilled a 1-2 pitch to deep center scoring SCU's runs.
"It wasn't a very good 1-2 pitch," Snider said. "It was on the black and he went and got it. I should have thrown it in the dirt. That's what I wanted to do."
At that point, UH head coach Les Murakami brought in Manuel Olivera, a move booed by the Rainbow Stadium faithful.
"They don't understand," Murakami said. "I was going to leave Rich in for the shutout, but when they got the runs, why leave him out there?
"Hey, that one out can get a guy hurt and the way we get guys hurt I wasn't taking any chances."
Snider's performance was not typical. He has a history of struggling early.
Yesterday, in the first six innings, he walked one and another Bronco reached on an error. And this transpired after what Snider termed a "bad bullpen."
"I couldn't throw any breaking stuff for strikes in the pen. I was kind of wild with it," he said.
Yet, it was the command of his breaking pitches and his ability to keep the ball down that highlighted his effort.
He threw 89 fastballs and 63 were for strikes. Fifteen of his 26 breaking pitches were strikes.
"I didn't leave much up and I had good command working both sides of the plate," Snider said.
"That's the Rich I know," said Kenn Wakakuwa, who also caught Snider in junior college.
"I feel a little bad for him. He deserved the shutout. We were on the same page the whole game."
Snider has never pitched a no- hitter in college and said he realized about the fourth of fifth inning yesterday he had a chance. "It's no more pressure," he said. "It just gives you a goal to shoot for and a little more motivation.
"I had some great defensive plays by (Patrick) Scalabrini and (Scooter) Martines that helped me for sure."
Fifteen Broncos were retired on ground balls and six struck out.
Wakakuwa knocked in three runs and Danny Kimura and Lane Nogawa each had two RBIs.
Rainbows 13, Broncos 2
SANTA CLARA AB R H BI HAWAII AB R H B1 Balestreri ss 4 0 0 0 Takamori cf-rf 4 0 0 0 Wheeler cf 4 1 1 0 Jackson cf 1 1 1 0 Queen dh 4 1 2 0 Honma rf-lf 4 2 2 0 Hinton 1b 4 0 0 0 Mitchell lf 0 1 0 0 Jakubauskas rf 4 0 0 0 Aloy 1b 3 3 1 1 Headley 2b 4 0 1 2 Kimura dh 4 1 2 2 Peavey 3b 3 0 0 0 Gilbride ph 0 0 0 1 Hayes c 2 0 0 0 Martines lf 4 2 2 1 Stevens ph-c 1 0 0 0 Baker cf-rf 1 0 0 0 Hilvert lf 3 0 0 0 Wakakuwa c 4 1 3 3 Nogawa ss 5 0 3 2 Scalabrini 3b 4 0 1 1 Purtell 2b 3 2 1 0 Totals 33 2 4 2 Totals 37 13 16 11
Santa Clara 000 000 002 - 2 4 3 Hawaii 350 002 03x - 13 14 2 E-Hinton (1), Peavey (2), Hayes (1), Nogawa 2 (5).
DP-SC 3 (Balestreri-Headley-Hinton, Peavey-Headley-Hinton, Balestreri-Hinton)). LOB-SC 5, UH 6.
2B-Purtell (1). 3B-Headley (1). SB-Honma 2 (6), Aloy (1). CS-Takamori (1). SF-Gilbride (1).
IP H R ER BB SO Santa Clara Travis (L, 0-2) 6 13 10 9 2 0 Mooney 2 3 3 3 2 1 Hawaii Snider (W, 2-3) 8-2/3 4 2 2 1 6 Olivera 1/3 0 0 0 0 0 WP-Travis (3). HBP-Mitchell (by Mooney).
Umpires-Tomaszewski (plate), Montalbo (first), Torres (third)..
T-2:26. A-1,065.
UH Athletics
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