Posted on: Saturday, March 16, 2002
UH, Hilo will continue rain suspended game today
Advertiser Staff
Last night's Hawai'i-Manoa baseball game at Hawai'i-Hilo was suspended with two out in the bottom of the 12th because of rain with the scored tied at 9.
The game will resume at 5 p.m. today. The regularly scheduled game will follow the conclusion of the first game.
The game will be aired on KCCN AM 1420 in progress after the UH men's volleyball match. The game also will be aired live by KHLO AM 850. (It can heard on the Internet via vulcans.uhh.hawaii.edu.)
According to a UHH spokesman, depending on how long the resumed game lasts, the nightcap might be limited to seven innings. If that happens, tomorrow's doubleheader might be two nine-inning games, instead of one going seven.
Last night's game was called with two out in the bottom of the 12th inning with a 3-2 count on UHH's Darren Chu, who was facing Matt Le Ducq for UH. The decision came after 20 minutes from when the game was halted by the umpires.
The Rainbows can replace Le Ducq when the game is resumed. He had pitched 4° innings of scoreless relief.
The Rainbows took a 9-6 lead after five-run sixth inning in which they sent 11 batters to the plate against four different UHH relievers.
But the Vulcans tied the game in the eighth with no out on Johnny Dudoit's three-run home run off UH reliever William Quaglieri.
UH starter Bryan Lee allowed five runs on eight hits in 4° innings before giving way to Quaglieri, who surrendered four runs in three innings. He was tentatively scheduled to start tomorrow if he wasn't needed for relief duty, UH coach Mike Trapasso said earlier in the week.
Vulcans starter Jason Castro left after five innings, allowing four runs on six hits and three walks.
During UH's five-run sixth, UHH relievers combined for four walks and a hit batsman. Three of the walks came with the bases loaded. The damage could have been worse for the Vulcans, but the Rainbows left the bases loaded, just as they had in their one-run second inning.
From the seventh inning, the Vulcans shut down the Rainbows behind the fifth reliever of the night in Joel Zimmerman.
Zimmerman, who entered the game with a 0-1 record and a 6.11 earned run average, pitched 5° scoreless innings before being lifted with one out in the top of the 12th after Scooter Martines doubled to left. Daniel Lockett, scheduled to start tomorrow, came in from left field to retire Cortland Wilson and Derek Honma on fly outs to end the inning.
Meanwhile, Le Ducq kept mowing down the Vulcans since he got an inning-ending double play in the eighth. He had retired 10 of the next 11 batters he faced after the double play. The only batter to reach was safely was Nalei Sooto on Wilson's fielding error.
Le Ducq, who entered the game having not given up a run in seven innings of relief, struck out Daniel Rhodes to start the 12th and got Kaliko Oligo to ground out to first. After running a 3-2 count to Chu, the umpires cleared the field.
The two UH teams each entered the game trying to snap three-game losing streaks.
Lane Nogawa continued his hot hitting for the Rainbows, batting 2 for 4 with a sacrifice fly and sacrifice. Brent Cook was 3 for 7 for UH.
Chu was leading UHH with a 3-for-5 performance.
