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Saturday, April 22, 2000

Bulldogs blank
Vulcans, take
over WAC lead

Star-Bulletin staff

HILO -- Shawn Hannah pitched 17th-ranked Fresno State into first place in the Western Athletic Conference last night.

The 6-foot-3 senior right-hander limited the University of Hawaii-Hilo Vulcans to five hits in an 8-0 victory at Francis Wong Stadium. It was Hannah's first career shutout.

The Bulldogs moved a game ahead of San Jose State, a 7-5 loser to Texas Christian yesterday.

Fresno State (32-11 overall, 14-6 WAC) took a 1-0 lead in the second. Brandon Gemoll doubled, took third on Nick Garcia's singled and scored on Mike Bowlin's sacrifice fly.

Anthony Acevedo then hit a two-run homer in the third inning.

The Bulldogs widened their lead in the seventh on Josh Labandeira's RBI single and Acevedo's sacrifice fly.

Hilo ace, left-hander Thomas Ford, allowed just six hits in eight innings, but walked five.

The Bulldogs scored three more runs in the ninth off UHH reliever Robert Shimabuku.

Brandon Chaves and Keola Park each had two hits for the Vulcans (14-28 overall, 5-18 WAC).

The series ends today with a 1 p.m. at Simmons Field in Kona.

WAC standings

	Conference	Overall
	W	L	Pct.	W	L	Pct.
Fresno State	14	6	.700	32	11	.744
San Jose State	13	7	.650	27	16	.628
Rice	10	10	.500	25	19	.568
Hawaii	9	9	.500	22	22	.500
Texas Christian	9	10	.474	18	26	.409
Hawaii-Hilo	5	18	.217	14	28	.333

Yesterday's results

Fresno State 8, Hawaii-Hilo 0

Texas Christian 7, San Jose State 5

Today's games

Hawaii at Rice, 9 a.m.
Fresno State vs. Hawaii-Hilo at Kona, 1 p.m.
Texas Christian at San Jose State

Tomorrow's game

Hawaii at Rice, 9 a.m.

Monday's game

Hawaii at Rice, 2 p.m.

Bulldogs 8, Vulcans 0

Fresno State	ab	r	h	bi	Hawaii-Hilo	ab	r	h	bi
Creighton 2b	4	2	1	0	Petersen rf	4	0	0	0
Labandeira dh	3	2	2	2	Chaves ss	4	0	2	0
Acevedo lf	3	1	1	4	Kaneshiro ss	0	0	0	0
Gemoll 1b	5	1	2	1	Yap, dh	4	0	1	0
Garcia 3b	4	0	1	0	Ryan 2b	3	0	0	0
Bowlin rf	3	0	1	1	Yee ph	1	0	0	0
Fritz c	3	0	0	0	Park 1b	4	0	2	0
Lopez ss	4	0	0	0	Rayl 3b	3	0	0	0
Myers cf	4	2	1	0	Hobbs rf	3	0	0	0
					McCracken c	2	0	0	0
					Rooke cf	3	0	0	0
Totals	33	8	9	8	Totals	31	0	5	0

Fresno State.............	012	000	203 -	8	9	1
Hawaii-Hilo...............	000	000	000 -	0	5	2

E-Hannah (3), Park (3), Rayl (6).

DP-Hawaii-Hilo 1.

LOB-Fresno State 6, UH-Hilo 5.

2B-Gemoll (11), Park (4).

HR-Acevedo (7).

CS-Creighton (2), Chaves (4).

SF-Acevedo 2, Bowlin.

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Fresno State

Hannah (W, 7-2)

9

5

0

0

1

8

Hawaii-Hilo

Ford (L, 4-5)	8	6	5	4	5	4
Shimabuku	1	3	3	2	0	0

Umpires-Burleson (plate), Montalbo (first), Pedersen (third).

T-2:22. A-498.

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