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Tuesday, February 27, 2001

’Bows frazzled
by Bulldogs

Hawaii loses series
against Fresno State

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Staff & wire reports

FRESNO, Calif. -- The University of Hawaii baseball team had its chances to score a lot of runs last night, but was not able to deliver enough key hits.

Despite falling behind 5-0 after two innings, the Rainbows came back to trail by one, 5-4, entering the seventh inning, only to have Fresno State's bullpen shut the door over the final three innings.

The Bulldogs completed the three-game sweep of the Western Athletic Conference series with an 8-4 victory at Pete Beiden Field.

The Rainbows loaded the bases with two outs in the second inning and came up empty. They had the sacks full again in the fourth, but Patrick Scalabrini grounded into a double play to end the inning.

In the UH ninth, Lane Nogawa and Matt Purtell singled to start the inning, but FSU's starting catcher Ben Fritz switched roles, taking the mound and retiring the next three batters for his fourth save of the season.

"The guys went out and battled back, but, again, little things happened that hurt," UH acting head coach Carl Furutani said.

"We need a break now and then and we haven't gotten that. You can't fault the players."

The Bulldogs used four singles to score two runs in the first inning. They added three more in the second with two scoring on Brandon Gemoll's home run.

Gregg Omori matched that with a two-run blast over the scoreboard in left-center field in the top of the third.

Arthur Guillen's groundout and Purtell's single to left brought two more Rainbows home in the sixth.

Omori had a one-out single in the seventh, but UH didn't threaten in that inning or the eighth.

"Over the season, it will all balance out. We just have to go to San Jose State and get something going," Furutani said.

Hawaii concludes the road trip with single games against the Spartans Thursday, Friday and Saturday.

Bulldogs 8, Rainbows 4

Hawaii	ab	r	h	bi	Fresno State	ab	r	h	bi
Purtell 2b	4	1	3	1	Creighton lf-2b	4	3	1	1
Scalabrini 3b	5	0	0	0	Beshears 2b	3	0	0	0
Omori 1b	5	1	2	2	Garcia 3b	1	1	0	0
Pribble dh	5	0	1	0	Gemoll 1b	4	2	4	2
Boudon lf	4	0	1	0	McGehee 3b-lf	4	0	2	2
Flick c	4	1	2	0	Young pr-lf	1	0	1	1
Montgomery rf	2	0	0	0	Labandeira ss	4	0	0	0
Wilson ss	4	1	2	0	Riday-White rf	4	0	2	1
Guillen cf	3	0	1	1	Fritz c-p	4	0	0	0
Nogawa ph	1	0	1	0	Harper c	0	0	0	0
					Guzman cf	4	1	1	0
					Patrick dh	4	1	2	0
Totals	37	4	13	4	Totals	37	8	12	7

Hawaii	002	002	021 -- 4	13	2
Fresno State	230	000	12x -- 8	13	1

E-Flick (3), Wilson (7), Beshears (1).

DP-FSU 1. LOB-UH 9, FSU 10.

2B-McGehee (6). Guzman (1). HR-Omori (3). Gemoll (5). SB-Creighton (4). CS-Purtell (3), Boudon (4).

Hawaii

	ip	h	r	er	bb	so
Giannetti (L, 1-2)	4 1/3	10	5	3	0	2
Quiroz	3 1/3	3	3	2	3	0
Le Ducq	1/3	0	0	0	0	0

Fresno State

	ip	h	r	er	bb	so
Runyon	2 2/3	5	2	2	2	3
Gonzalez (W, 2-0)	2 2/3	4	2	2	1	2
Hintz	2 2/3	4	0	0	0	4
Fritz (S, 4)	1	0	0	0	0	0

Hintz Gonzalez pitched to two batters in the 9th Inning.

WP-Quiroz (4). BK-Runyon (1). HBP-Riday-White and Creighton (by Quiroz).

Umpires-Gonzales (plate), McCardell (first), Franceschiell (third). T-NA. A-NA.

WAC standings

	Conference			Overall
	W	L	Pct.	W	L	Pct.
Rice	3	0	1.000	13	2	.867
Fresno St.	5	1	.833	10	5	.667
TCU	4	1	.800	9	6	.600
San Jose St.	2	3	.400	7	5	.554
Hawaii	2	4	.333	7	8	.467
Nevada	2	4	.333	5	9	.357
Hawaii-Hilo	2	7	.222	3	14	.176

Note: SJSU has one tie in a nonconference game.

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