Nevada pounds UH-Hilo in baseball
Advertiser Staff
Sophomore Darrell Rasner allowed six hits and struck out seven in 8¡ innings to pitch Nevada to a 10-1 victory over Hawai'i-Hilo in a Western Athletic Conference baseball game at Reno, Nev., yesterday.
Nevada is 12-12 overall, 7-6 in the WAC. Hilo is 3-19 and 2-12. It was Hilo's 11th loss in a row.
Nevada pounded 16 hits, including six hits in a six-run seventh inning.
Hilo's Brian Rooke hit his fourth home run of the season, a bases-empty homer in the top of the ninth to end the shutout.
SOFTBALL
• Wahine split two: Jen Sharron pitched a six-hitter with no walks and two strikeouts as Notre Dame defeated Hawai'i, 4-1, in the Fullerton Kia Softball Classic yesterday at Fullerton, Calif.
Later, UH defeated Cal State Northridge, 3-2.
Hawai'i is 22-10 and finished 3-2 in the tournament.
April Crowell batted 2-for-3 for Hawai'i against Notre Dame. UH's Trisha Ramos hit a solo homer against Northridge.
• BYUH sweeps: Junior Alisha Durrette tripled with two outs in the bottom of the 12th inning and scored on a single by Lyza Halas to give Brigham Young-Hawai'i a 1-0 victory in the second game, and a sweep of a doubleheader with St. Xavier (Ill.) at La'ie.
In the first game, the Seasiders rallied for two runs in the bottom of the seventh for a 5-4 victory.
In the second game, Lyndi Frei struck out six and allowed seven hits to record her second consecutive shutout and fifth win of the season.
SWIMMING
• UH women 24th: The University of Hawai'i women finished 24th at the NCAA Division I Swimming and Diving Championships, which ended yesterday at East Meadow, N.Y.
Georgia clinched the team title with 389 points. Stanford was second with 387.5 points. Hawai'i finished with 32 points.
TENNIS
• Hawai'i out: Five Western Athletic Conference women's teams, and five more men's teams, are in the top 75 in the latest Intercollegiate Tennis Association rankings. The University of Hawai'i is not among the Top 100 in either ranking.
Texas Christian is fourth among the men, behind UCLA, Stanford and Duke. Southern Methodist is ninth, Fresno State 23rd and Tulsa 35th. In the women's rating, Fresno State is 28th, with TCU 30th and Tulsa 32nd.
Earlier this month, the Rainbows (7-7) and Wahine (9-7) both lost to Tulsa. The Wahine don't play a WAC match again until next month. The Rainbows don't play another WAC team until the conference tournament, April 26 in Fresno.
BOXING
• Card set: Sol Holguin meets Mario Ramos in an eight-round welterweight bout that headlines a Hawai'i Professional Boxing Inc. card Tuesday night at Aloha Tower Marketplace.
Both Holguin and Ramos are 7-1.
Six other bouts, all four-rounders, complete the 7 p.m. show.
