’Bows beat Stanford, end losing streak

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Jon Hee drove in Sean Montplaisir with the go-ahead run in the top of the ninth inning and Hawaii tacked on two more insurance runs to knock off No. 13 Stanford 5-2 last night at Sunken Diamond.

HAWAII 5 STANFORD 2 NEXT UP: at San Jose St. on Friday

The Rainbows improved to 10-19 on the season and snapped a six-game losing streak with their first win against a ranked team.

Hee finished 2-for-3 with a double and three RBIs and Jeff Van Doornum and Greg Garcia each had three hits.

With the score tied 2-2, Stanford's Sean Ratliff tripled to lead off the bottom of the eighth inning. Jayson Kramer entered the game and got three consecutive outs without allowing Ratliff to score. He then retired the side in order in the ninth to pick up the win.

Hawaii had at least 10 hits for the fourth straight game as it pounded out 13 against seven different Cardinal pitchers.

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STANFORD, Calif. » It took 10 tries, but the Hawaii baseball team finally came away with a win over a ranked team.

Jon Hee scored Sean Montplaisir on a sacrifice fly in the ninth and the Rainbows scored two more times in the inning to defeat No. 13 Stanford 5-2 last night at Sunken Diamond.

Hawaii (10-19) opened the second half of the season by putting together one of its best all-around performances of the year. A quintet of pitchers kept a Cardinal team hitting over .300 in check and Hawaii got clutch hitting to snap a six-game losing streak.

"It really was a complete game," Hawaii coach Mike Trapasso said. "Obviously it's the best game we've had in a long time and maybe all year because of the way we competed."

Jeff Van Doornum's third hit of the night brought in Derek DuPree with two outs in the ninth. Hawaii tacked on another run when Brandon Haislet scored on a throwing error by Cardinal third baseman Adam Gaylord.

The Rainbows made it to the ninth inning tied at 2 after Jayson Kramer came on with a runner on third and no outs in the bottom of the eighth. Sean Ratliff tripled off of Sam Spangler to begin the inning, but Kramer induced a line out to short and a groundout to second that couldn't score Ratliff. Kramer struck out pinch hitter Jeff Whitlow to end the inning and then retired the side in the ninth to record the win.

"I was pretty confident that if I executed my pitches and blew up the glove, I was going to be able to get out of it," Kramer said.

Hee moved from the leadoff spot to third in the batting order for the first time this season and drove in the first three Hawaii runs. His single with two outs in the third scored Greg Garcia to tie the game 1-1.

Garcia, who missed the last nine games with an ankle injury, started at second base and had three hits. Hee scored Garcia again in the seventh with the first of his two RBI sacrifice flies to tie the score at 2.

"I wanted to try more of an execution lineup with more speed at the top," Trapasso said. "We were a little quicker today and the guys at the top and bottom of the order executed very well."

Matt Daly worked the first three innings and allowed one run on two hits while walking two. Cory Kahn allowed a run in two innings and Nick Rhodes and Spangler each pitched out of jams to keep Hawaii in the game.

Rhodes allowed two hits to open the sixth inning and had the bases loaded with one out before getting a strikeout and a fly out to end the threat.

The Cardinal left two runners on in the seventh as Spangler got Randy Molina, who was 3-for-3 at the time, to ground out to end the inning.

"We were able to make a couple of big pitches that got us out of jams," Trapasso said.

DuPree finished 2-for-4 with a run to extend his hitting streak to six games, and Montplaisir had two hits in the leadoff spot.

The Rainbows return to action Friday to finish off a nine-game road trip with the first of four against San Jose State.

WAC standings

	W	L	PCT.		GB	W-L
New Mexico State	3	1	.750		--	13-12
Fresno State	5	3	.625		--	16-13
Nevada	5	3	.625		--	14-12
Sacramento State	5	3	.625		--	10-15
San Jose State	5	6	.444		1 1/2	14-10
Louisiana Tech	2	5	.286		2 1/2	15-11
Hawaii	2	6	.250		3	10-19

Yesterday
Nevada 23, UNLV 1
Hawaii 5, Stanford 2
UC Davis 10, Sacramento State 5
New Mexico State 17, CSU-Pueblo 15
Fresno State 7, Long Beach State 6

Today
Fresno State at California
CSU-Pueblo at New Mexico State
Northwest State at Louisiana Tech

Tomorrow
Sacramento State at Louisiana Tech
Hawaii at San Jose State, 3 p.m.
New Mexico State at Nevada

Hawaii 5, Stanford 2

Hawaii	AB	R	H	BI	Stanford	AB	R	H	BI
Montplaisir lf	4	1	2	0	Phelps 2b	5	0	1	0
DuPree dh	4	1	2	0	Domaracki lf	4	0	1	0
Hee ss	3	0	2	3	Castro c	4	0	1	0
Haislet cf	4	1	0	0	Molina 1b	4	2	3	0
Van Doornum rf	5	0	3	1	Ratliff cf	4	0	3	1
Roquemore rf	0	0	0	0	Inman dh	0	0	0	0
Macdonald 1b	4	0	0	0	Yount ph/dh	1	0	0	0
Hernandez c	5	0	1	0	Milleville ph/dh	1	0	0	0
Catricala 3b	4	0	0	0	Walsh 3b	2	0	0	0
					Jones ph/3b	1	0	0	0
					Clowe ph	1	0	0	0
					Gaylord 3b	0	0	0	0
					Gerhart rf	3	0	0	0
					Whitlow ph/rf	1	0	0	0
					Schlander ss	2	0	0	0
					Jelmini ph	1	0	0	0
Totals	37	5	13	4	Totals	34	2	9	1

Hawaii	001	000	103	--	5	13	0
Stanford	010	100	000	--	2	9	1

E--Gaylord. DP--Hawaii 1. LOB--Hawaii 11, Stan 9. 2B--Hee; Molina; Ratliff. 3B--Ratliff. SH--Montplaisir. SF--Hee 2. SB--DuPree. CS--Domaracki.

Hawaii	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
Daly	3	2	1	1	2	1
Kahn	2	3	1	1	0	0
Rhodes	1	2	0	0	1	1
Spangler	1	2	0	0	1	1
Kramer (W, 1-1)	2	0	0	0	0	2
Stanford	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
Sandbrink	2	2	0	0	1	0
Bannister	2	3	1	1	0	3
Hancock	1	1	0	0	0	0
Marshall	1 1/3	3	1	1	0	0
Storen	1 2/3	1	0	0	0	2
Pracher (L, 0-1)	2/3	3	3	2	1	0
Walker	1/3	0	0	0	0	1

WP--Rhodes; Walker. HBP--by Storen (Dupree).

Umpires--Greg Charles (Plate); Ted Kovach (First); Billy Haze (Third).

T--3:13. A--1,178.