’Bows falter late,
lose at USF

Hawaii blows a lead after squandering
opportunities -- leaving 14 runners
on base

The Hawaii Rainbows left 14 men on base and it cost them in a nonconference game against the San Francisco Dons yesterday at USF's Benedetti Diamond.

The 'Bows lost the opener of a four-game road trip and their fifth consecutive game on the mainland this season when the Dons (22-9) rallied for five runs in the eighth for a 7-4 victory.

USF 7 HAWAII 4 NEXT UP at Nevada tomorrow

The Rainbows have fared well when they led after seven innings (13-4) but have failed to pull a game out in the ninth, going 0-13 when they trail after eight innings.

UH coach Mike Trapasso said prior to the trip that it would be a staff effort on the mound as he wasn't going to waste any of his nine pitchers with a Western Athletic Conference series opening at Nevada tomorrow.

The plan worked well as UH (15-18) nursed a 3-2 lead into the eighth inning. Ricky Bauer pitched the first two innings, Rich Olsen gave UH four shutout innings and Guy McDowell had a perfect seventh, although all three fly-ball outs were hit hard. The junior right-hander ran into trouble in the eighth after retiring the first batter.

Luke Sommer singled to right and McDowell walked Mililani graduate Cy Donald.

Trapasso called on closer Darrell Fisherbaugh to halt the USF rally, but he walked Blake Nelson to load the bases. With Maui's Royce Fukuroku at the plate, Fisherbaugh's wild pitch sent Andrew Smith home to tie the score at 3-3.

When the count reached 3-1 on Fukuroku, he was given an intentional walk. Pinch hitter Joey Railey singled to center to score Donald with the go-ahead run and Nelson came home when Matt Inouye misplayed the ball in center.

Fukuroku continued to third on the play and scored on Jonathan Norfolk's fielder's-choice grounder. Jonnie Nobles tripled to center off UH's fifth pitcher, Dean Turner, to bring in the final run.

Inouye, who had three of Hawaii's 11 hits, connected for a two-out homer to left in the ninth and UH went on to load the bases, but Luis Avila popped out against USF's fourth pitcher, Garrett Ozar, to end the game.

"We scored three runs in the first two innings, but made five errors and did not make the pitches when it counted. It was a bad game," said Trapasso.

The 'Bows wasted a leadoff double by Inouye in the third and a one-out triple by Joe Spiers in the fourth when both runners were thrown out trying to score on infield grounders.

The one positive in the game was the two-hit, five-strikeout performance by Olsen, who did not walk anyone.

"Rich was very good. He was throwing strikes and getting the ball down," said Trapasso. "It has never been an issue with his stuff. It's his intensity on the mound. He had it today and was outstanding."

The Rainbows (2-6 WAC) will go with the same starting rotation of Stephen Bryant, Colby Summer and Justin Costi against Nevada.

The Wolf Pack (15-11, 4-2 WAC) are coming off an 11-8 home loss to California on Tuesday. Nevada made a season-high eight errors and had its four-game winning streak stopped.

San Francisco 7, Hawaii 4

Hawaii	AB	R	H	BI	USF	AB	R	H	BI
Spiers ss	5	1	2	0	Knoble lf/cf	4	0	2	1
Kish rf	4	0	1	0	Hall ss	4	0	0	0
Omura 2b	5	0	2	2	Gartrell rf	1	0	0	0
Russo dh	5	0	0	0	Cousins ph/lf	3	0	0	0
Inouye cf	5	1	3	1	Sommer dh	4	1	2	0
Magana 3b	3	0	0	0	Smith pr	0	1	0	0
Ammon c	2	1	1	0	McGaughy rf	0	0	0	0
Roberts 1b	5	1	2	0	Donald 3b	2	1	0	0
Wilder lf	3	0	0	0	Bialosky 1b	2	1	0	0
Avila ph	1	0	0	0	Nelson ph/1b	0	1	0	0
					Fukuroku 2b	3	1	1	0
					DeLong cf/rf	2	0	0	1
					Railey ph	1	0	1	1
					Norfolk c	4	1	1	2
Totals	38	4	11	3	Totals	30	7	7	5
Hawaii		120	000	001	--	4	11	5
San Francisco	020	000	05x	--	7	7	1

E--Spiers 3; Inouye; Ammon; Bialosky. DP--Hawaii 2; USF 1. LOB--Hawaii 14; USF 7. 2B--Inouye; Roberts. 3B--Spiers; Knoble. HR--Inouye. SH--Hall; Donald. SB--Inouye; Hall; Smith. Reached on CI--Knoble.

Hawaii	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
Bauer	2	2	2	2	1	0
Olsen	4	2	0	0	0	5
McDowell (L, 2-3)	1 1/3	1	2	2	1	0
Fisherbaugh	1/3	1	3	3	2	0
Turner	1/3	1	0	0	0	0
USF	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
Muller	3 1/3	7	3	3	2	1
McGuigan	2 2/3	1	0	0	0	2
Poreda (W, 1-0)	2 2/3	3	1	1	3	3
Ozar (S, 1)	1/3	0	0	0	0	0

WP--McDowell; Fisherbaugh 2; Muller. HBP--by Muller (Ammon); by Bauer (Bialosky); by Poreda (Ammon). BK--Fisherbaugh. Catcher's interference--Ammon.
Umpires--Sid Aguilar (plate), Mark Beller (first), Wayne Nealt (third).
T--3:06. A--488.