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Saturday, February 10, 2001

No rain or
runs for ’Bows

UH will try to turn it around
today and tomorrow after being
shut out by the Cardinals

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By Dave Reardon
Star-Bulletin

The expected storm never arrived last night at Rainbow Stadium.

Neither did Hawaii's bats.

And bad fortune instead of precipitation poured on UH, as previously winless Louisville (1-4) took the first of a three-game series from the Rainbows, 5-0.

"That's just baseball," Hawaii acting head coach Carl Furutani said after the Rainbows (3-4) absorbed their third-straight loss. "They hit the ball hard and it falls in, we hit the ball hard and it's right at guys."

It was UH's first shutout loss since falling to Rice, 4-0, last April 24.

Louisville's Mike Eilers, bombed by USC last week, pitched four-hit ball over 7 1/3 innings. He threw a first-pitch strike to 16 of the 27 Rainbow batters he faced.

"We preach that," Louisville coach Lelo Prado said. "He got ahead, and he had a little breaking ball that was enough to get by."

Eilers struck out five and walked two. He was helped by three double plays.

A five-inning scoreless duel between Eilers and Hawaii's Jeff Coleman ended in the top of the sixth.

The only run the Cardinals needed came home on a fielding miscue which was ironically caused by a base-running mistake.

Mike Budak hit a grounder to shortstop Cortland Wilson with runners on first and third and none out.

Wilson was playing back, but Dave Williams, the runner on third, did not break for the plate immediately.

"He was supposed to go on any ball hit to the middle (infielders)," Prado said.

When the speedy Williams finally did run, the surprised Wilson didn't have time to catch him at home, nor Budak at first.

So he held the ball.

"It was kind of a broken play," Wilson said. "If he broke earlier like he should have I go to one (first base)."

Hawaii got out of the inning surrendering only that run. But in the seventh Louisville rattled the fences with a triple by Williams and three doubles to score four more runs.

Coleman, who allowed only one single over the first five innings, deserved a better fate.

"He got tired and was pitching uphill at the end," Furutani said. "But he did exactly what we want a starter to do. He commanded the game."

Hawaii's best scoring opportunity came in the third inning when Derek Honma walked and stole second and third.

With one out, Patrick Scalabrini, who went 3-for-4 with a double, flied to medium-deep center field.

After his catch, Mike Hook made a perfect throw to catcher Fernando Isa.

Honma slid in head first and was ruled out by umpire Keoki Torres in a close play.

Honma, who said he touched home with his left hand before being tagged, hurt his right shoulder on the play and left the game.

"I'm not upset," Furutani said. "I felt it was a well-played game. Right now we're going through some rough spots, but all the wrong things we're doing are fixable."

Furutani said the Rainbows need to improve their plate discipline.

"Someone had to score tonight," Coleman said. "Unfortunately it wasn't us."

Wakon Childers, pitching in a game for the first time in a year, gave up a run on a hit batsman, a balk and a single.

But Furutani was encouraged by his performance -- after the game, too.

"Look at him out there," the coach said. "He made the first balk of his life tonight. So now he's out there working on his move.

"That's how this team is. They're battlers. They get frustrated, but they're battlers."

The teams met again today at 1 p.m., with UH's Sean Yamashita scheduled to take the mound against Louisville's Garrett Estabrook. Tomorrow at 2 p.m., the Rainbows' Chad Giannetti is penciled in to face the Cardinals' Dave Williams.

Cardinals 5, Rainbows 0

Louisville	ab	r	h	bi	Hawaii	ab	r	h	bi
Williams lf	4	2	1	1	Purtell dh	4	0	0	0
Hook cf	5	0	2	0	Scalabrini 3b	4	0	3	0
Budak 3b	4	0	2	2	Omori 2b	4	0	0	0
De la Osa 1b	4	0	1	0	Kimura 1b	4	0	0	0
Bojorquez 1b	0	0	0	0	Boudon lf	2	0	1	0
Isa c	4	0	0	0	Bock c	4	0	0	0
Jurich rf	3	0	0	0	Montgomery rf	3	0	0	0
LaFountain ph	1	0	0	0	Wilson ss	2	0	0	0
Smith rf	0	0	0	0	Honma cf	0	0	0	0
Jarboe 2b	4	1	2	2	Guillen cf	1	0	1	0
Gerlach 2b	0	0	0	0	Gilbride ph	1	0	0	0
Haley ss	2	2	1	1	Chan cf	0	0	0	0
Gerlach 2b	0	0	0	0
Totals	35	5	9	4	Totals	29	0	5	0

Louisville	000 001 301 -- 5 9 1
Hawaii	002 020 000 -- 0 5 1

E-Isa (1), Wilson (3).
DP-UL 3 (Hook-Isa, Jarboe-Haley-De La Osa, Haley-Jarboe-Bojorquez). LOB-UL 7, UH 6.
2B-Budak (2), Jarboe (1), Haley (1), Scalabrini (3). 3B-Williams (1). SB-Hook (4), Scalabrini (2), Boudon (2), Honma 2 (2). CS-Isa (1). S-Haley (1).

Rice	ip	h	r	er	bb	so
Eilers (W, 1-1)	7 1/3	4	0	0	2	5
Ring (S, 1)	1 2/3	1	0	0	1	1
Hawaii
Coleman (L, 0-1)	6 1/3	5	3	3	1	5
Quiroz	1/3	2	1	1	0	0
Pribble	1 1/3	1	0	0	0	2
Childers	1	1	1	1	0	1

WP-Eilers (1). PB-Bock (2). BK-Childers (1). HBP-Williams (by Coleman), Wilson (by Eilers), Haley (by Childers).
Umpires-Torres (plate), Pittman (first), LaBeau (third). T-2:43. A-2,203 (tickets distributed), 1,010 (turnstile).

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