Saturday, May 19, 2001
[ RAINBOW BASEBALL ]
Rainbows deal Chad Giannetti pitched seven strong innings to lead the University of Hawaii to a 16-2 Western Athletic Conference win over the University of Hawaii at Hilo at Rainbow Stadium last night.
Vulcans 19th
straight loss
The offense staked
Chad Giannetti to a 9-0
lead after 2 inningsSPECIAL: ALOHA COACH MURAKAMI
By Al Chase
Star-BulletinGiannetti did not allow a hit until the fifth inning in winning his sixth game of the season against five defeats. The sophomore right-hander allowed six hits, walked two and fanned three.
The Rainbows (28-27, 15-20 WAC) made Giannetti's job much easier by scoring two runs in the first inning and seven more in the second.
Danny Kimura had three hits and four runs batted in. Arthur Guillen also had three hits and scored four times.
Every other Rainbow startter had at least one hit and scored at least one run.
Hawaii needs to win tonight's game to finish the 2001 season with a winning (29-27) record.
Brian Rooke and Keola Park each had two hits for the Vulcans (5-44, 3-32 WAC), who lost their 19th straight.
UHH starter Robert Shimabuku, who held the 'Bows to seven hits and three runs over nine innings in Hilo last week, made an early exit last night.
He paid for plunking Matt Purtell and Gregg Omori consecutively with pitches in the first inning. Omori was erased on Patrick Scalabrini's fielder's choice grounder with Purtell taking third. Scalabrini then stole second and both runners scored on Danny Kimura's single to center.
With one out in the second inning, the next 10 Rainbows reached base, seven on hits.
Lane Nogawa and Arthur Guillen singled and Nate Jackson walked, loading the bases. Purtell singled to center, scoring Nogawa. Omori singled to right, scoring Guillen and Jackson. Scalabrini bounced a ground-rule double over the right-field wall, scoring Purtell.
After Ryan Petersen replaced Shimabuku on the mound, Kimura followed with his second two-run single in two innings, scoring Omori and Scalabrini. Brian Bock's single, an error by Vulcan shortstop Justin Kaneshiro on Tim Montgomery's ground ball and a bases-loaded walk to Nogawa brought home the seventh run of the inning. UH led, 9-0, after two innings.
Giannetti was perfect for four innings, needing just 36 pitches to retire the first 12 Vulcans. Keola Park got the first UHH hit, an infield grounder to deep second base, to open the fifth inning. He was erased on a double play.
But Giannetti walked Nalei Sooto on a 3-2 count, his second to that point. Singles by Johnny Dudoit and Darren Chu got Sooto home with the Vulcans' first run.
The Rainbows got the run back in the bottom of the inning when Guillen singled, advanced to second on a ground out and scored on Purtell's single to right.
Hawaii 16, UH-Hilo 2
HAWAII-HILO AB R H BI HAWAII AB R H BI Hobbs 2b 3 0 0 0 Jackson cf 4 1 1 1 Agustin 2b 1 0 0 0 Purtell ss/2b 4 2 2 3 Oligo lf 4 0 0 0 Omori dh 3 1 1 2 Rooke cf 4 1 2 0 Anderson ph 1 0 0 0 Park dh 3 0 2 1 Scalabrini 3b 5 2 1 1 Jinbo ph 1 0 0 0 Kimura 1b 5 2 3 4 Rayl 3b 2 0 0 0 Bock c 5 1 2 0 Manfre 3b 1 0 1 0 Montgome rf 4 1 1 1 Sooto c 2 1 0 0 Gilbride rf 1 0 0 0 Watanabe c 1 0 1 0 Nogawa 2b 2 2 1 1 Dudoit 1b 2 0 1 0 Wilson ss 1 0 0 0 Rhodes ph/1b 1 0 0 0 Guillen lf 4 4 3 1 Chu rf 4 0 1 1 Kaneshiro ss 3 0 1 0 Rhodes ss 0 0 0 0 Totals 32 2 9 2 Totals 39 16 15 14
Hawaii-Hilo 000 010 100 -- 2 9 3 Hawaii 270 015 01x -- 16 15 1 DP--Hilo, Hawaii 3. LOB--Hilo 6, Hawaii 8. 2B--Park, Scalabrini. SB--Scalabrini, Nogawa, Guillen.
HAWAII-HILO IP H R ER BB SO Shimabuku (L, 1-11) 11/3 6 8 8 1 2 Petersen 4 6 4 3 2 0 Daugherty 0 1 3 2 3 0 Miyake 22/3 2 1 0 0 2 HAWAII IP H R ER BB SO Giannetti (W, 6-5) 7 6 2 2 2 5 Le Ducq 1 1 0 0 0 1 Lee 1 2 0 0 0 0 WP--Peterson. HBP--by Shimabuku (Purtell), by Shimabuku (Omori), by Miyake (Anderson), by Giannetti (Rayl). Umpires--Frank Tomaszewski (plate), Jim LeBeau (first), Gary Montalbo (third).
T--2:36. A--1,094.
WAC standings
WAC OVERALL W L Pct. GB W L Pct. *Rice 24 10 .706 -- 41 17 .707 FSU 21 13 .617 3 38 22 .633 TCU 21 13 .617 3 32 26 .552 SJSU 20 14 .588 4 36 21 .629 Nevada 17 19 .472 71/2 30 26 .536 Hawaii 15 20 .429 9 28 27 .509 UH-Hilo 3 32 .086 21 5 44 .102 *clinched conference title
Note: San Jose State has one non-conference tie
Yesterday's results
Hawaii 16, Hawaii-Hilo 2
Rice 17, Texas Christian 3
Fresno State 7, San Jose State 4
UH Athletics
Ka Leo O Hawaii
