Winthrop coach Joe Hudak exchanged a few words with umpire Cary Izuka after UH's Joe Spiers was called safe at first in the bottom of the third inning.
Winthrop completes
sweep of UH
The Eagles break open a close
game with a five-run seventh
The Winthrop Eagles swept a two-game, nonconference series with Hawaii by defeating the Rainbows 11-3 last night at Les Murakami Stadium.
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They iced the game in the seventh with five runs on two hits and five walks against little-used relievers Larry Ellenbrook and Dean Turner.
The Hawaii offense did little against Winthrop sophomore right-hander Heath Rollins. He held UH to three hits, two of the infield variety, in seven innings.
Rollins was in trouble just once, in the third inning when Hawaii (12-10) loaded the bases with no outs and settled for two runs.
"He was definitely hitting his spots all night," said UH third baseman Rocky Russo. "I don't think we were flat. We tried to put Tuesday night (a 4-3 loss in 15 innings) behind us."
The Rainbows have one day to get ready for the Western Athletic Conference opening series against Louisiana Tech that begins tomorrow night
"After the three runs in the sixth, our guys laid down. You could see it coming because we were short-handed in the bull pen," said UH coach Mike Trapasso.
"Winthrop is a better team than Florida State. Their front-line pitching is better and their position players are mature. They play good defense and swing the bat. We were not ready for them. Winthrop and Louisiana-Lafayette are the two best teams we've played this year."
Alan Robbins started the third inning with a triple off the right-field wall. Winthrop took a 1-0 lead when Robbins scored on Ben Ehrlich's first-pitch ground ball to first.
UH answered with two runs in the bottom of the inning.
Jose Castaneda led off with a double to right center. Esteban Lopez walked. On Joe Spiers' sacrifice bunt toward third, Ehrlich's throw to first was wide, loading the bases.
Castaneda scored on Greg Kish's infield single, a high chopper to third that Ehrlich lost in the lights. Lopez came home on Isaac Omura's sacrifice fly to left.
Hawaii's Esteban Lopez eluded the tag from Winthrop catcher Alan Robbins to score a run.
Dempsey, who hits in the cleanup spot, did just that in the sixth. Rollins singled and Daniel Carte got an infield single when no one covered first base on his sacrifice bunt.
Dempsey drilled a 2-2 pitch to the wall in right-center scoring both runners. He would take third on a groundout and score for a 5-2 Eagles lead when Tommy Lentz's two-out ground ball went right through Spiers' legs at shortstop.
The Rainbows got one run back without benefit of a hit in the bottom of the inning to trail 5-3. Matt Inouye walked on four pitches, took second on Rocky Russo's groundout, stole third and scored on a wild pitch.
UH starter Colby Summer went six innings, gave up seven hits, walked one, fanned six and was charged with four earned runs.
"Colby threw well," Trapasso said. "I would have liked to have got more out of him, but his pitch count was up and he was tired.
Summer had command of his three pitches -- fastball, changeup and slider -- and said he made two bad pitches all night.
"I don't mind giving up a solo dinger (to Dempsey), but the double (to Dempsey in the sixth) was the killer," Summer said.
Note: Hawaii was named the CollegeBaseballInsider.com "Team of the Week" for games played March 7-13 after sweeping three games from Florida State.
Winthrop 11, Hawaii 3
WU AB R H BI Hawaii AB R H BI Carrara 2b 4 2 1 0 Spiers ss 4 0 0 0 Bly phÚ2b 1 0 0 0 Kish lf 4 0 2 1 Rollins p 2 1 1 0 Omura 2b 1 0 0 1 Schmidt phÚdh 0 0 0 0 Avila 1b 4 0 0 0 Mastroianni ph 1 0 0 0 Inouye cf 3 1 0 0 Carte rf 5 1 1 0 Russo 3b 3 0 0 0 Dempsey 1b 4 3 2 3 Roberts 3b 1 0 0 0 Konstanty 1b 0 0 0 0 Piaskowski dh 3 0 0 0 Roberson lf 4 1 1 1 Asato ph 1 0 0 0 Repec ss 4 1 0 1 Castaneda rf 3 1 1 0 Lentz cf 5 0 2 4 Wilder ph 0 0 0 0 Robbins c 2 1 1 0 Lopez c 2 1 0 0 Reed phÚc 1 0 1 0 Ehrlich 3b 4 1 1 1 Saum 3b 1 0 1 0 Totals 38 11 12 10 Totals 29 3 3 2
WU 001 103 510 -- 11 12 1 Hawaii 002 001 000 -- 3 3 2 E--Ehrlich, Spiers 2. LOB--WU 9, Hawaii 7. 2B--Dempsey; Lentz; Ehrlich; Castaneda. 3B--Robbins. HR--Dempsey. SH--Rollins, Robbins, Spiers. SF--Omura. SB--Inouye. CS--Roberson.
WU IP H R ER BB SO Rollins (W, 3-3) 7 3 3 3 4 4 Duff 1/3 0 0 0 0 0 Flail 2/3 0 0 0 0 1 Hydrick 1 0 0 0 1 0 Hawaii IP H R ER BB SO Summer (L, 1-1) 6 7 5 4 1 6 Ellenbrook 2/3 1 4 4 3 0 Turner 2 1/3 4 2 1 3 2 WP--Rollins 2, Summer. HBP--by Hydrick (Lopez).
Umpires--Jim LeBeau (home), Cary Izuka (first), Mike Evans (third).
T--3:05. A--1,998.
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