Saturday, May 5, 2001
[ RAINBOW BASEBALL ]
Nevada’s shifting RENO, Nevada >> The fickle winds that blow across William Peccole Park shifted just before the first pitch, and the University of Nevada Wolf Pack batters made good use of the favorable currents.
winds blow away
Hawaii, 12-7
Wolf Pack again takes advantage
of 'Bows' mistakes to pound out
12 runs on 14 hits and 7 walksSan Jose State 5, UH-Hilo 2
From staff and wire reports
Nevada hit for the cycle in the first inning to take a 4-0 lead and increased the margin to 11-3 after six innings en route to a 12-7 Western Athletic Conference triumph over the University of Hawaii Rainbows yesterday.
"Before the game, the wind was blowing in, then it started blowing out and Chad (Giannetti) was up in the zone a bit," UH acting head coach Carl Furutani said.
Nevada's first hitter, Michael Hass, sent Giannetti's second pitch over the 20-foot-high center-field wall, 400 feet from home plate. Matt Maguire singled and scored on a double to right-center by Mike Gillies. JaRell McIntyre tripled to right to score Gillies and came home on Chris Dickerson's ground out.
The Rainbows (23-26, 10-19 WAC) didn't get a man on base against freshman right-hander Mateo Miramontes until Chad Boudon started the third inning with a single to left. He took third on Lane Nogawa's double and scored on a wild pitch. Nogawa scored on an infield single by Nate Jackson, who later came home on a throwing error at third base by Gillies. That cut the Wolf Pack's (28-23, 16-16 WAC) lead to 5-3.
But, Christian Popoff's leadoff double in the fourth ended Giannetti's day. The Wolf Pack made good use of three walks issued by reliever Aaron Pribble combined with singles by Bo Bryant and McIntyre to score four runs in the fourth.
"Aaron went after guys, but missed, missed, missed and couldn't get the ball down (in the strike zone)," Furutani said. "With the wind, you have a small margin of error.
The Hawaii bats were silent in the middle four innings but awoke briefly in the eighth when Matt Purtell doubled home Jackson, and Patrick Scalabrini homered to left.
Nevada 12, Hawaii 7
At Reno, Nevada
HAWAII AB R H BI NEVADA AB R H BI Jackson cf 4 2 2 1 Mass rf 3 3 1 1 Purtell ss 4 1 3 2 Maguire ss 4 3 3 2 Omori dh 5 0 1 0 Bryant lf 4 1 1 1 Kimura 1b 4 0 0 0 Belding lf 0 0 0 0 Scalabrini 3b 4 1 2 2 Gillies 3b 3 2 2 2 Bock c 4 0 0 0 Rangal ph/3b 1 0 0 0 Boudon lf 3 1 1 0 McIntyre 1b 4 1 2 3 Nogawa 2b 2 1 1 0 Dickerson cf 4 0 0 1 Wilson ph 0 0 0 0 Strain dh 2 0 1 1 Guillen rf 2 0 0 0 Wickwir ph/dh 1 0 0 0 Montgo ph/rf 2 1 0 0 Streelman ph 0 0 0 0 Herrera 2b 5 1 2 0 Christian c 5 1 2 0 Totals 34 7 10 5 Totals 36 12 14 11
Hawaii 003 000 031 -- 7 10 1 Nevada 410 420 10x -- 12 14 2 E--Guillen 2, Gillies 2. DP--UH 1, Nevada 2. LOB--UH 5, Nevada 9. 2B--Purtell, Nogawa, Gillies, Popoff. HR --Scalabrini, Mass, Maguire. HBP--Boudon, Nogawa, McIntyre. SF--Strain. SB--Jackson, Purtell, Scalabrini.
HAWAII IP H R ER BB SO Giannetti (L, 4-5) 3.0 8 6 6 0 1 Pribble 1.0 3 5 5 4 0 Le Ducq 4.0 3 1 1 3 4 NEVADA IP H R ER BB SO Miramontes (W, 9-2) 7.0 7 5 5 2 5 Moran 2.0 3 2 2 1 1 WP--Giannetti, Pribble, Le Ducq, Miramontes. HB--Giannetti, Miramontes 2. Balk--Gianetti. Umpires--Tom Chandler (plate), Phil Benson (first), Ron Ridd (third).
T--2:42. A--1295.
San Jose State 5, UH-Hilo 2
At San Jose, Calif.
SJSU AB R H BI HILO AB R H BI Lopez 2b 3 0 1 0 Rooke cf 5 0 1 0 Frandsen 3b 4 0 0 0 Oligo lf 4 0 1 2 Ruiz lf 4 1 1 0 Sooto dh 4 0 2 0 Macchi rf 1 1 0 0 Hobbs pr 0 0 0 0 Zwissig dh 1 1 0 0 Park 1b 3 0 1 0 Ferraro ph/dh 0 0 0 0 Rayl ss 3 0 1 0 Fagan 1b 3 1 1 1 Manfre 3b 4 0 0 0 Adams ss 2 1 1 1 Agustin 2b 3 0 0 0 Shorsher c 4 0 3 3 Chu rf 4 1 1 0 Brucker cf 3 0 0 0 Jinbo c 4 1 1 0 Totals 25 5 7 5 Totals 34 2 8 2
Hilo 002 000 000 -- 2 8 0 San Jose State 030 002 00x -- 5 7 0 DP--Hilo. LOB--SJSU 9, Hilo 8. 2B--Oligo 3, Shorsher 8. CS--Lopez 2. SH--Rayl 3, Frandsen 9, Ferraro, Brucker 7. SF--Fagan 4.
UH-HILO IP H R ER BB SO Watts (L, 0-7) 6 6 5 5 4 0 Petersen 2 1 0 0 3 1 SJSU IP H R ER BB SO Rogelstad (W,4-4) 9 8 2 2 1 5 WP--Rogelstad. HBP--by Watts (Zwissig), by Rogelstad (Park), by R. Petersen (Ferraro). Umpires--Gus Rodriguez (plate), Dale Luker (first),Jeff Ford (third).
T--2:25. A--442.
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