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Monday, March 5, 2001
HILO - Jose Cruz homered, doubled and singled in five trips to the plate, scoring three runs and driving in two to lead Rice past Hawaii-Hilo, 11-3, last night in a Western Athletic Conference baseball game at Wong Stadium. Powerful Owls
rout VulcansStar-Bulletin staff
The Owls, 15-3 overall and unbeaten in five WAC games, put the game away with a five-run ninth inning keyed by A.J. Porfirio's three-run homer.
Johnny Dudoit went 3-for-4 for the Vulcans (3-16, 2-9 WAC), who collected nine hits and drew seven walks but stranded 14 base runners.
Keola Park and Nalei Sooto each had two hits for UHH.
Rice's Jon Skaggs pitched the first six innings to earn his fourth victory without a loss. Philip Pride blanked the Vulcans the rest of the way for his first save.
Zeb Watts (0-3), the first of five Hilo pitchers, took the loss.
Owls 11, Vulcans 3
Rice ab r h bi Hawaii-Hilo ab r h bi Cruz 2b 5 3 3 2 Hobbs 2b 3 1 1 0 Porfirio cf 5 1 1 4 Oligo lf 1 1 1 0 Arnold rf 4 0 0 0 Rooke cf 3 0 0 0 Roman 1b 4 0 2 0 Petersen rf 5 0 0 0 Brown 3b 4 2 1 0 Rayl ss 4 0 0 0 Davis lf 3 3 1 0 Park dh 5 0 2 0 Cunningham dh 4 0 1 0 Dudoit 1b 4 1 3 0 Fox ss 4 2 2 2 Rhodes 3b 4 0 0 0 Ghutzman c 4 0 1 1 Sooto c 4 0 2 1 Totals 37 11 12 9 Totals 33 3 9 1
Rice 020 110 115 -11 12 1 Hawaii-Hilo 002 001 000 - 3 9 0 E-Fox. DP-UHH 1. LOB-Rice 10, UHH 14.
2B-Cruz, Davis Fox. 3B-Roman. HR-Cruz, Porfirio. SH-Porfirio, Cunningham, Hobbs, Oligo.
ip h r er bb so Rice Skaggs (W,4-0) 6 5 3 3 7 7 Tribe (S,1) 3 4 0 0 0 5 Hawaii-Hilo Watts (L, 0-3) 4 7 4 4 0 3 Reyes 3 2 1 1 2 2 Shimabuku 2/3 1 1 1 1 0 Suzuki 1/3 0 2 2 2 1 Miyake 1 2 3 3 0 0 Watts faced 1 batter in 4th; Suzuki faced 2 batters in 9th.
WP-Skaggs, Reyes, Suzuki. HBP-Davis (by Watts), Rayl (by Skaggs), Rhodes (by Skaggs), Roman (by Reyes),Ghutzman (by Shimabuku), Cruz (by Shimabuku).
Umpires-Montalbo (plate), Benson (first), Speck (third). T-3:23. A-200.
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