Monday, March 19, 2001
Texas Christian Carl Furutani knows what his team needs to do to avoid a loss.
wallops Hawaii
Horned Frogs pound away in
By Al Chase
two different innings for an 11-3
victory over Rainbows
Star-Bulletin"We've got to try and escape the big inning," said the University of Hawaii acting head baseball coach.
Yesterday, the Rainbows failed to do that twice and the Texas Christian Horned Frogs romped to an 11-3 Western Athletic Conference victory at Rainbow Stadium.
UH starter Sean Yamashita had little trouble in the first three innings. He breezed through the first, gave up a two-out double in the second and got out of the third when right fielder Tim Montgomery threw out TCU's Ramon Moses at third base.
Walter Olmstead homered over the right-field wall to start the fourth inning, knotting the score at 1-1. Yamashita retired the next two batters, but walked Cade Harris on four pitches. Mike Settle and Jason Price doubled. Yamashita was replaced by Gavin Garrick, who gave up two singles and uncorked a run-scoring wild pitch, and did not retire a batter. Suddenly, TCU (16-9, 7-2 WAC) led, 5-1.
Yamashita is as perplexed as anyone about running into one bad inning each start since he pitched five hitless innings in his first outing of 2001.
"I don't let down or anything. I try to stay focused. Maybe I'm trying too hard. I can't explain it," the junior right-hander said.
"I just have to get over the hump of one bad inning."
Furutani thought Yamashita's pitches may have come up a bit and noticed he didn't have the same late movement on his fastball he exhibited earlier.
The Rainbows (8-15, 3-11) had a wonderful opportunity to make life miserable for TCU starter Justin Crowder when they loaded the bases with one down in the third. But Crowder retired Gregg Omori on a short fly to center and struck out Danny Kimura on four pitches.
"That's pretty much the way Justin has gone all year. He gives up hits, but doesn't walk anyone. If we can get six or seven innings out of him, we feel the bullpen can close things out," TCU head coach Lance Brown said.
Patrick Scalabrini hit his third home run of the season to start the fourth and Omori singled home Gary Ahu in the fifth to cut TCU's lead to, 5-3.
However, the Horned Frogs collected seven hits, a walk and benefited from Scalabrini's throwing error to push eight runs across the plate in the eighth inning.
"When we screwed up and had two base runners thrown out in the sixth, I told the dugout we had to hold them because I didn't think we'd score again," Brown said. "We were just trying to get another run or two and got lucky (in the eighth)."
The series finale is tonight starting at 6:35.
UH-Hilo 11, Nevada 9
At Reno, Nev., the University of Hawaii-Hilo defeated Nevada, 11-9, in the final game of a three-game Western Athletic Conference series yesterday at Peccole Park.Brian Rooke and Johnny Dudoit each drove in three runs for Hilo (4-19 overall, 3-12 WAC). The Wolf Pack fell to 12-13, 7-7. UHH jumped out to a 5-0 lead after three innings but Nevada rallied to tie it with five runs in the fifth. UHH scored six unanswered runs, three each in the top of the sixth and seventh innings to take a 11-5 lead. In the sixth inning, the Vulcans tallied the three runs on five hits, and added three runs in the seventh on four hits and an error. The Wolf Pack closed to with 11-9 after eight but could get no closer as Vulcan reliever Anthony Bernal retired the side in order to pick up the save.
Horned Frogs 13,Rainbows 3
TCU ab r h bi Hawaii ab r h b1 Trorfholz rf 5 1 2 1 Purtell ss 4 0 1 0 Rivera cf 5 1 3 0 Honma cf 3 0 2 0 Olmstead 1b 5 2 1 2 Guillen cf 0 0 0 0 Bates lf 5 1 1 1 Omori dh 4 0 1 1 Macha ss 4 1 2 1 Kimura 1b 4 1 1 4 Harris dh 3 1 1 1 Scalabrini 3b 4 1 2 0 Settle 1b 5 2 3 3 Flick c 4 0 2 0 Price c 4 2 1 1 Boudon lf 3 0 0 0 Moses 2b 5 2 4 1 Gilbride ph 1 0 0 1 Crowder p 0 0 0 0 Montgomery 4 0 0 1 Jerome 0 0 0 0 Ahu 2b 3 1 2 0 Frazier 0 0 0 0 Anderson ph 1 0 0 0 Yamashita p 0 0 0 0 Le Ducq p 0 0 0 0 Pribble p 0 0 0 0 Quaglieri 0 0 0 0 Totals 41 13 18 11 Totals 35 3 11 3
TCU 000 500 080--13 18 0 Hawaii 010 110 000--3 11 2 E-Scalabrini (7), Le Ducq (3). DP-TCU 1. LOB-TCU 8, UH 7. 2B-Harris (2), Settle 2(11), Price (8); Scalabrini (7), Flick (1). SB-Trofholz (5), Macha, E. 2(9), Settle (2), Ahu (1). CS--Trofholz. SH--Trofholz (2), Price (3), Purtell (4). SF--Harris (1). HR--Olmstead (5), Scalabrini (3).
TCU
IP H R ER BB SO Crowder 6.2 10 3 3 0 2 Jerome 1.1 1 0 0 0 2 Frazier 1 0 0 0 0 0
Hawaii
IP H R ER BB SO Yamashita 3.2 6 4 4 1 2 Garrick 0 2 1 1 1 0 Le Ducq 3.1 5 3 2 0 3 Pribble 0 3 4 4 1 0 Quaglieri 2 2 1 1 0 1 Garrick faced three batters in the 4th, Le Ducq faced three batters in the 8th, Pribble faced four batters in the 8th.
Win--Crowder (4-2); Loss--Yamashita (0-4). WP--Le Ducq 2(4). BK--Garrick (1). HBP by Crowder (Honma); by Le Ducq (Macha E.).
Umpires: Gary Montalbo, home; Ron Ridd, 1b; Dave Yeast, 3b. A--2248.
UH-Hilo 11, Nevada 9
UH-Hilo (4-19, 3-12) 104 003 300--11 17 0 Nevada (12-13, 7-7) 000 500 220--9 10 1 Clay Daugherty, Robert Shimabuku (4), Anthony Bernal (7) and Todd Jinbo; Mateo Miramontes, James Holcomb(3), George Moran(7) and Christian Popoff. WP-Shimabuku (1-6). LP-Holcomb (0-3). SV-Bernal.
Leading hitters-UHH: Brian Rooke three-run HR; Keola Park 3-5, RBI; Mike Hobbs 3-4, 2b; Ryan Peterson 3-5, 2 2bs, 3b, RBI; Kaliko Oligo 2-5, RBI; Johnny Dudoit 2-5, 3 RBI; Todd Jinbo 2-4, RBI. T-3:08 A-1,750.
UH Athletics
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