Wednesday, March 28, 2001
Gauchos Right-hander James Garcia's strong pitching and a slow-starting but relentless attack led UC Santa Barbara to a 13-4 victory over Hawaii last night in the Rainbow Easter Baseball Tournament.
rough up
Rainbows
UC Santa Barbara ends Hawaii's
By Dave Reardon
4-game winning streak, 13-4
Star-BulletinA Rainbow Stadium gathering that started the game at 1,165 saw UH's season-long four-game winning streak end. UCSB (15-7) won its third-consecutive game. It was the first official game of the tournament for both teams.
Hawaii (12-17) plays Wichita State, winner of two games yesterday, tonight at 6:30.
Garcia (4-1) went seven innings, giving up six hits and two runs, striking out eight, walking three and hitting two. He held UH scoreless the first six innings.
The Gauchos, who came into the game with a .341 team batting average, started slowly but finished with 16 hits. Jed Stringham led the way with a single, double and triple, Darren Warrecker hit three singles and Chad Peshke added two doubles.
UCSB scored four runs in the third and added another in the fourth. Meanwhile, Garcia struck out seven Rainbows in the first four innings.
Hawaii starter Matt LeDucq (1-3) retired the first seven batters he faced, but lost command in the third as UCSB got a two-run single from Tyler Von Schell, an RBI-single by Dave Molidor and a run-scoring walk to Ryan Spilborghs.
The Rainbows, however, threatened in their half of the inning. With two outs, Lane Nogawa walked and advanced to third on Gregg Omori's single to right. Omori ended up on second due to a bad throw by rightfielder Spilborghs. But Patrick Scalabrini lined out sharply to Spilborghs to end the inning.
William Quaglieri relieved LeDucq with one out in the fourth after Jed Stringham tripled to the right field corner and Jeff Carter reached first on LeDucq's third walk.
Stringham scored on a force play at second that UH could not turn for a double play.
UCSB torched Quaglieri for a run in the sixth when Stringham singled and scored on a grounder by Jeff Carter.
The Gauchos added three runs in the seventh.
Omori broke up the shutout with a two-run double in the bottom of the seventh, scoring Matt Purtell and Nogawa.
Peshke's eighth-inning RBI double and Schumaker's two-run double in the ninth helped UCSB add to the rout.
Danny Kimura's second double and a single by Kevin Gilbride accounted for Hawaii's two runs in the ninth off reliever Keith Kelley.
NOTES: KCCN 1420 willl broadcast Hawaii's games from today through Saturday, in progress after the completion of men's volleyball games on the mainland (except there will be no TV or radio of tomorrow's Hawaii-Centenary game). ... On Sunday, Centenary plays the noon game regardless of tournament position (opponent to be determined), due to travel considerations.
TOURNAMENT STANDINGS
Wichita State 2-0 Lewis-Clark State 1-0 UCSB 1-0 Kita-Kyushu 1-1 Centenary 0-1 Hawaii 0-1 Hawaii Pacific 0-2
UCSB 13, Hawaii 4
UCSB AB R H BI Hawaii AB R H BI Schumaker cf 6 2 1 3 Purtell cf 4 1 1 0 Spilborghs rf 4 2 1 1 Nogawa ss 3 1 1 0 Peshke 2b 3 2 2 2 Omori 2b 4 1 2 2 Sutton ph/2b 1 0 0 0 Scalabrini 3b 3 1 0 0 Molidor 3b 5 0 1 1 Kimura 1b 4 0 2 2 Von Schell 1b 4 1 2 2 Boudon lf 2 0 0 0 Kolbach 1b 0 0 0 0 Gilbride lf 3 0 1 0 Bannon ss 4 1 1 1 Flick c 5 0 1 0 Stringham dh 4 3 3 1 Anderson dh 3 0 0 0 Smith ph 1 0 0 0 Montgomery rf 4 0 0 0 Warrecker c 4 1 3 1 Carter lf 4 1 2 1 Totals 41 13 16 13 Hawaii 35 4 8 4
UC Santa Barbara 004 101 313 -- 13 16 2 Hawaii 000 000 202 -- 4 8 0 E--Spilborghs, Molidor. LOB--UCSB 8, Hawaii 12.
2B--Schumaker, Peshke 2, Stringham, Omori, Kimura 2. 3B--Stringham. SB--Nogawa. CS--Schumaker. SH--Bannon.
UC Santa Barbara IP H R ER BB SO Garcia (W,4-1) 7 6 2 2 3 8 Wirth 1 0 0 0 1 0 Kelley 1 2 2 2 1 2 Hawaii IP H R ER BB SO Le Ducq (L,1-3) 3.1 5 5 5 3 2 Quaglieri 2.0 3 1 1 0 0 Sato 1.2 3 3 3 1 0 Gauthier 1.0 1 1 1 1 0 Pribble 1.0 4 3 3 0 1 WP--Garcia, Quaglieri, Pribble. PB--Flick. HBP--Von Schell (by Quaglieri); Purtell, Kimura (by Garcia); Scalabrini (by Kelley).
Umpires--Frank Tomaszewski (plate), Keoki Torres (first), Jerry Pittman (third). T--3:17. A--1,165 (turnstile).
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