’Bows bury Bulls

Bryant picks up his third victory
in four starts as UH blanks
South Florida

The Hawaii Rainbows could reflect on the things they did right last night to earn their first win in the First Hawaii Title Rainbow Baseball Tournament.

Both batters asked to sacrifice -- Schafer Magana and Eric Ammon -- were successful.

Five of the first seven runs were driven home with one-out hits. Except for a misjudged fly ball on the first batter of the game and a dropped foul pop, the defense made all the plays behind UH starter Stephen Bryant, who threw 98 pitches.

The senior right-hander allowed three hits over eight innings. He walked three, but no one after the fourth inning. Bryant fanned 11, topping his previous career high against Pacific last month.

The 9-0 victory over the South Florida Bulls (9-7, 1-2 tourney) before 936 fans was the first shutout of the season for UH.

"The curveball was my out pitch tonight and I was setting them up with the changeup," said Bryant. "I'll throw any pitch anywhere in the count and I threw more fastballs tonight because they weren't catching up with it. When the bats get going it is always nice."

In the second inning, the 'Bows (8-7, 1-2) equaled their hit total from Wednesday night's game with five and they scored three times against South Florida starter Casey Hudspeth.

With one out, Rocky Russo and Jose Castaneda singled. Junior college transfer Jeff Piaskowski, making his first start, doubled to right-center field, scoring both runners.

Ammon, pinch-hitting for Esteban Lopez, singled, but USF right fielder Bryan Hierlmeier's throw to catcher Brian Baisley was in time to tag the sliding Piaskowski. Ammon moved to second on a balk and scored on Magana's first-pitch, two-out, line single to left field.

Lopez felt pain in his right elbow when he threw out South Florida's Ty Taborelli trying to steal second in the first inning.

"We had to get Esteban out of there and Eric came in and stepped it up big," said UH coach Mike Trapasso.

Hawaii increased its lead to 5-0 in the third. Matt Inouye singled off third baseman Jeff Baisley's glove, stole second and came home on Russo's double to the alley in right. Russo moved to third on Piaskowski's fly to deep center and scored on Ammon's line single to right.

"We had a man on second, so my approach was to just try to hit behind the runner," said Ammon, who wasn't fazed by his sudden entry into the game.

"Coach Komeiji always stresses to be ready, even when I had my shoulder (strained left) injury."

Bryant benefited from the early lead and responded with his fourth consecutive solid outing to win his third game in four starts. He did walk consecutive batters with two outs in the second and gave up a single and walk with two down in the fourth, but no Bulls advanced past second base in his eight innings of work.

"I was real aggressive early and at times my ball was up," said Bryant of the walks. "That eats into my pitch count and I was at 102 tonight."

Isaac Kamai pitched the ninth.

Ammon singled in a run in the sixth with a liner to right and Isaac Omura doubled home the freshman catcher with the seventh run.

"We just went out and were aggressive tonight," said Trapasso. "When we weren't swinging the bat it was contagious. Tonight we swung the bat early and it became contagious."

After Castaneda walked and Piaskowski was hit by a pitch to start the seventh inning, Ammon's sacrifice bunt advanced the runners. They scored the final UH runs on wild pitches by USF reliever Jim Cassidy.

No. 22 Louisiana-Lafayette 4, Sacramento State 2

The Ragin' Cajuns (13-0, 3-0) matched their best start ever (1994) with their 13th consecutive win and continued to roll in the tournament by rallying in the fifth and sixth innings.

The Hornets (6-8-1, 1-2) took a 2-0 lead with runs in the second and third innings. Brett Flowers doubled to center and scored on Matt Wilson's single in the second. Aiea graduate Taylor Watanabe singled up the middle and eventually scored on Flowers' second double of the game in the third.

The Cajuns tied the score in the fifth on run-scoring singles by Justin Merendino and John McCarthy.

Dallas Morris walked to start the Louisiana-Lafayette sixth. He took second on Justin Morgan's sacrifice bunt and scored the tie-breaking run on a single to left by Josh Landry.

Senior right-hander Kraig Schambough picked up the save, his first of the season, by retiring the four batters he faced, three on strikeouts.

No. 15 Wichita State 6, UC Davis 4

The Shockers (13-1, 2-1) had to rally in the last two innings after cruising through the first six behind the pitching of Jeremy Foster.

WSU broke a 4-4 tie in the ninth when leadoff hitter Joe Muich doubled to left. Pinch runner Brian Hoy took third on a wild pickoff throw to second. UC Davis coach elected to load the bases with two intentional walks, but Nick McCoola foiled the strategy by bouncing a two-run single through the drawn-in infield.

Foster retired 18 consecutive batters through six innings, but Aggies leadoff batter Ryan Royster ended the potential perfect game in the seventh with a double to the alley in left. On a sacrifice bunt attempt, Brandon Oliver ended up with an infield single as three Shocker infielders converged on the ball leaving first base uncovered.

Daniel Descalso singled to right, scoring Royster with Oliver stopping at second. The runners moved up a base on Lukas Kirby's sacrifice bunt. Tyler LaTorre singled to center, scoring Oliver. The Aggies (7-8, 1-2) took a 3-2 lead when Descalso scored on a throwing error by WSU second baseman Damon Sublett, a freshman right-hander who later would take the mound and get his first collegiate win.

The Shockers went up 4-3 in the top of the eighth when Derek Schermerhorn stole home with the go-ahead run, but the Aggies drew even on Oliver's RBI single in the bottom of the inning.

Rainbow Baseball Tourney

aT Les Murakami stadium
Standings

Team	W	L	Pct.	GB
Louisiana-Lafayette	3	0	1.000	--
Wichita State	2	1	.667	1
Hawaii	1	2	.333	2
Sacramento State	1	2	.333	2
South Florida	1	2	.333	2
UC Davis	1	2	.333	2

Yesterday
Louisiana-Lafayette 4, Sacramento St. 2
Wichita St. 6, UC Davis 4
Hawaii 9, South Florida 0
Today
South Florida vs. Sacramento St., 10:30 p.m.
UC Davis vs. Louisiana-Lafayette, 2:30 p.m.
Hawaii vs. Wichita St., 6:35 p.m.
Tomorrow
Sacramento St. vs. UC Davis, 10:30 p.m.
Wichita St. vs. South Florida, 2:30 p.m.
Hawaii vs. Louisiana-Lafayette, 6:35 p.m.

Hawaii 9, South Florida 0

USF	AB	R	H	BI	Hawaii	AB	R	H	BI
Taborelli lf	3	0	1	0	Spiers ss	3	0	0	0
Howell ph/lf	1	0	0	0	Magana 3b	3	1	1	1
Orlosky dh	3	0	1	0	Hee 3b	0	0	0	0
Anglbrgr ph	1	0	0	0	Omura 2b	5	0	2	2
Hierlneier rf	4	0	0	0	Avila 1b	4	0	0	0
Baisley. J 3b	3	0	0	0	Roberts ph/1b	1	0	0	0
McKargue 1b	4	0	0	0	Inouye cf	3	1	1	0
Baisley, B. c	3	0	1	0	ÊThurber ph	1	0	1	0
LeRoy c	1	0	0	0	Dupree cf	0	0	0	0
Cardieri 2b	1	0	0	0	Russo dh	4	2	2	1
ÊBrand ss	0	0	0	0	ÊNelson ph	1	0	0	0
Butler ss/2b	2	0	0	0	Castaneda rf	2	2	1	0
Bellotti cf	3	0	0	0	Piaskowski lf	3	1	1	2
					Lopez c	0	0	0	0
					Ammon ph/c	2	2	2	1
Totals	29	0	3	0	Totals	32	9	11	7

USF	000	000	000	--	0	3	0
Hawaii	032	002	20x	--	9	11	1

E--Magana. LOB--USF 6, Hawaii 9. 2B-- Orlosky, Omura, Russo, Piaskowski. SH--Magana; Ammon. SB--Baisley, B.; Inouye. CS--Taborelli.

USF	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
Hutdspeth (L, 2-1)	6	10	7	7	4	3
Cassidy	1	0	2	2	1	0
Lau	1	1	0	0	0	1
Hawaii	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
Bryant (W, 3-0)	8	3	0	0	3	11
Kamai	1	0	0	0	1	1

HBP--by Hutdspeth (Castaneda); by Hutdspeth (Magana); by Cassidy (Piaskowski). BK--Hutdspeth. PB--Baisley, B.
Umpires--Mike Evans (home), Don Greman (first), Keoki Torres (third).
T--2:50. A--936.