UH baseball team opens homestand with win over HPU
On “Bark in the Park” night, the Hawaii baseball team unleashed an opportunistic attack in a 4-1 victory over Hawaii Pacific at Les Murakami Stadium. A crowd of 1,734 — and canine pets allowed in the Aloha Deck — saw the Rainbow Warriors break out of their scoring drought to take their 18th consecutive victory over their crosstown rival. The ’Bows’ last loss to the Sharks was in 1986.
The ’Bows improved to 34-2 in this series. “Very tough,” UH coach Rich Hill said of the Division II Sharks. “That’s a very well-coached team with guys that are very hungry to win, big fan base.
I loved the crowd. ‘Bark at the Park. ’ It felt like the game meant something.
It’s good for our guys to be in that situation heading into (Friday’s series opener against) Cal State Fullerton. You can’t replicate that in practice. ” Down 1-0 after stranding 11 runners in the first six innings, the ’Bows rallied for four runs in the seventh.
Ben Zeigler-Namoa led off with a single to right and advanced to second on Elijah Ickes’ infield hit up the middle. Zeigler-Namoa went to third while Ickes was out at second on Draven Nushida’s fielder’s choice groundout. Kody Watanabe then pulled an RBI single to right to bring home Zeigler-Namoa with the tying run.
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