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Friday, March 3, 2000


U. H. _ H I L O _ B A S E B A L L




Fresno State holds off
Hawaii-Hilo

Star-Bulletin staff

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The University of Hawaii-Hilo Vulcans surrendered five early runs, battled back, but were missing the timely hit against 23rd- ranked Fresno State last night.

FSU's Tom Graham turned in a career-high, 13-strikeout performance as the host Bulldogs won, 5-3, in the opener of a three-game Western Athletic Conference series.

Josh Labandeira had a career-high four hits and Mike Bowling was 3-for-3 with two doubles and two RBIs for FSU (3-1 WAC, 13-4 overall).

Mike Hobbs had two RBIs for the Vulcans (1-3, 10-13).

"I felt good about how the game ended. We threatened in most innings, but didn't get the big hit," Vulcans coach Joey Estrella said. "When you get close enough to win, you don't want to be just close."

Bulldogs 5, Vulcans 3

HAWAII-HILO AB R H BI FRESNO STATE AB R H B1
Rooke cf 4 0 0 0 Creighton 2b 4 0 0 0
Chaves ss 5 0 0 0 Labandeira ss 5 1 4 0
Park dh 4 0 1 1 Acevedo lf 5 0 0 0
Lynch ph 1 0 1 0 Gemoll 1b 4 1 1 0
Ryan 2b 4 0 1 0 Garcia 3b 3 1 2 1
Petersen rf 5 1 1 0 Bowlin rf 3 2 3 2
Yee 1b 4 0 0 0 Tayoya dh 4 0 1 1
McCracken c 4 1 2 0 Harper c 4 0 0 0
Hobbs 3b 3 1 2 2 Guzman cf 3 0 2 1
Miura lf 3 0 2 0 Myers pr-cf 1 0 0 0
Totals 37 3 11 3 Totals 36 5 13 5

Hawaii-Hilo 000 020 010 - 3 13 1
Fresno State 000 000 11x - 5 15 0

E-Hobbs (3).

DP-FSU 1. LOB-UHH 11, FSU 10.

2B-Ryan (2), McCracken (2), Hobbs (2), Garcia (6), Bowling 2 (7), Tafoya (1), Guzman (1) SB-Hobbs (2), Acevedo (1). SF-Garcia.

Hawaii-Hilo

IP H R ER BB SO
Lippert (L, 1-1) 2-2/3 7 5 5 1 2
Bell 5-1/3 6 0 0 1 4

Fresno State

IP H R ER BB SO
Graham (W, 3-1) 7-1/3 9 3 3 3 13
Smith (S, 2) 1-2/3 2 0 0 0 2

WP-Lippert. HBP-Hobbs (by Graham).

Umpires-Franceshiello (plate), McCardell (first), Van Rapporst (third). T-2:22. A-2,822.



U.H. Hilo



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