Sunday, May 13, 2001
[ RAINBOW BASEBALL ]
’Bows beat up HILO >> The University of Hawaii collected a season-high 21 hits to saddle Hawaii-Hilo with their 16th consecutive defeat yesterday at Francis Wong Stadium.
Vulcans for season’s
best output
Gregg Omori busts out against
Vulcans, driving in 9 runs in
the first 2 games of seriesFrom staff and wire reports
The 15-4 Western Athletic Conference victory also saw the Rainbows record a season high for runs scored.
UH designated hitter Gregg Omori had his second consecutive big game against the Vulcans, going 3-for-4, including a grand slam, with five runs batted in. He has nine RBIs in the first two games of the three-game series.
Rainbow third baseman Patrick Scalabrini was 5-for-6 with three runs scored and an RBI. Right-hander Chad Giannetti pitched seven innings to earn the win and even his record at 5-5.
The Rainbows (25-27, 12-20 WAC) grabbed a quick 3-0 lead in the first inning when the first five batters reached base safely.
Matt Purtell started the game with a single to center field and moved to third on Lane Nogawa's double to right-center field. Omori's single scored Purtell and moved Nogawa to third. Scalabrini's single to center scored Nogawa, who had three hits.
Omori took third on Danny Kimura's single to left and scored on a wild pitch.
Hawaii added three more runs in the fifth on Kimura's RBI single and a two-run single to left by Brian Bock.
Both teams batted around in the sixth inning. First the Rainbows scored five runs, four scoring on Omori's grand slam, to take an 11-0 lead.
UH starter Chad Giannetti ran into some trouble in the bottom of the sixth, giving up four runs.
UH-Hilo is 5-41, 3-29 WAC.
Hawaii 15, UH-Hilo 4
HAWAII AB R H BI UH-HILO AB R H BI Purtell ss 3 1 2 0 Mobbs lf 5 1 2 0 Wilson pr/ss 3 1 0 0 Oligo rf 4 1 1 0 Nogawa 2b 5 3 3 0 Chu rf 1 0 0 0 Omori dh 5 3 3 5 Dudoit 1b/3b 4 1 0 0 Anderson dh 0 0 0 0 Park dh 4 1 2 2 Scalabrini 3b 6 3 5 1 Sooto c 1 0 0 0 Kimura 1b 4 1 2 1 Watanabe ph/c 1 0 0 0 Pribble 1b 1 1 0 0 Rayl ss 3 0 0 1 Boudon lf 5 1 1 1 Manfre 3b 2 0 0 0 Bock c 4 0 2 2 Rhodes 3b/2b 1 0 1 0 Flick c 2 0 0 0 Rooke cf 3 0 1 1 Gilbride rf 3 0 0 0 Jinbo ph 0 0 0 0 Montgo ph/rf 3 0 2 2 Kanehiro 2b 3 0 0 0 Guillen cf 5 1 1 2 Rhodes 1b 1 0 1 0 Childers ph 0 0 0 0 Siff p 0 0 0 0 Jackson pr/cf 0 0 0 0 Daugherty p 0 0 0 0 Giannetti p 0 0 0 0 Miyake p 0 0 0 0 Quaglieri p 0 0 0 0 Unger p 0 0 0 0 Sato p 0 0 0 0 Agustin p 0 0 0 0 Totals 49 15 21 14 33 4 7 4
Hawaii 300 035 400 -- 15 21 3 UH-Hilo 000 004 000 -- 4 7 2 E--Wilson, Nogawa, Giannetti, Manfre, Kaneshiro. DP--Hawaii 3 (Nogawa-Purtell-Kimura, Quaglieri-Wilson-Pribble, Sato-Pribble). UH-Hilo 1 (Kaneshiro-Rayl-Dudoit). 2B--Nogawa, Scalabrini, Guillen. HR-Omori. SB--Scalabrini; Kimura. SF--Rayl.
HAWAII IP H R ER BB SO Gianetti (W,5-5) 7.0 6 4 2 2 3 Quaglieri 1.0 0 0 0 0 1 Sato 1.0 1 0 0 1 1 UH-HILO IP H R ER BB SO Siff (L,1-8) 5.0 11 8 7 1 1 Daugherty 0.1 4 3 3 1 0 Miyake 1.1 4 4 4 1 2 Unger 1.1 2 0 0 1 1 Agustin 1.0 0 0 0 0 0 WP--Siff. Umpires--Frank Tomasewski (plate), Jim Lebeau (first), Guy Ogawa (third).
T--2:58. A--322.
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