’Bows focused as Cal State Northridge arrives for series
For tonight’s baseball game at Les Murakami Stadium, it will not be a time to look back, although Hawaii pitching legend Derek Tatsuno will be signing autographs during a pregame session. It will not be a time to bid aloha, although UH’s Ben Zeigler-Namoa will be participating in the final home series of his four-season, 195-game career as a Rainbow Warrior. UH’s senior ceremony will follow Friday night’s game.
And it will not be a time to focus on the magnitude of the three-game series, although the ’Bows need to beat Cal State Northridge just once to clinch a berth in next week’s five-team Big West Tournament in Irvine, Calif. The ’Bows and Cal State Fullerton enter the final week of the regular season tied for fourth at 14-13. UC Davis is 11⁄2 games back, at 14-16, but already has completed its Big West schedule.
UC Irvine is seventh at 12-15 and CSUN is 11-16. The ’Bows hold the tiebreaker over CSUF and UCI. “We’re still playing meaningful games,” said CSUN coach Eddie Cornejo, whose Matadors need to sweep UH to keep alive any postseason prayers.
During a team meeting on Tuesday, UH coach Rich Hill referenced the “dangling carrot in front of us” and Tiger Woods’ 12-foot birdie putt on the 72nd hole to force a playoff at the 2008 U. S. Open.
“It’s not about the dangling carrot,” Hill said. “It’s not about the putt going in. It’s about the process it takes for that putt to go in.
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