Wahine’s season comes to an end with 2 close defeats
The Hawaii softball team’s season came to an end Friday after a pair of losses at the Big West Championship in Fullerton, Calif. “Tough one. Like I told the girls, I liked their battle, I liked their fight.
Just wasn’t our day,” first-year UH coach Panita Thanatharn said during a postgame news conference. In the first game, Colby McClinton hit a two-out, two-run, walk-off homer in the bottom of the seventh inning as top-seeded Cal State Fullerton beat Hawaii 6-4. Trisha McCleskey pitched five scoreless innings of relief for the top-seeded Titans.
Millie Fidge batted 2-for-4 with a double, a homer and two RBIs for the No. 2 Rainbow Wahine. In the second game, Bella Fuentes drove in three runs and Tehya Banks scored three times in No.
3 UC Santa Barbara’s 8-6 win over Hawaii. Keely Kai hit a three-run homer and Kayara Tuiloma had two RBIs for the Rainbow Wahine. Hawaii finished the season 30-20.
“This season was great overall,” UH pitcher Hannah Pitts said. “Looking back this season, we definitely had a lot of fun and a lot of memories. At the end of the day, that’s what we’re going to think about when we’re older.