Riverside stuns Rainbows

By Stacy Kaneshiro
Advertiser Staff Writer

The remainder of the Rainbow Easter Tournament might determine how the rest of this season goes for the University of Hawai'i baseball team.

San Jose State's Gabe Lopez was tagged out trying to steal second base by Hawai'i-Hilo shortstop Daniel Rhodes. Cory Lum • The Honolulu Advertiser

The Highlanders (16-11, 1-1 in the tournament) snapped a four-game losing streak by sending 13 batters to the plate against three different UH pitchers in their huge inning.

For the Rainbows (9-19, 1-1), they are in need of an attitude adjustment.

"It's up to us to decide how tough we are," UH coach Mike Trapasso said. "If we're not tough enough, we're going to go out and cave the rest of the week. If we come out and decide if we want to play a little bit harder, a little bit tougher to morrow, we'll shut things down when they start coming. When we have adversity, we have a tough time shutting it off."

This is UH's worst start since 1997, when it was 6-22 en route to a 22-34 season.

The teams were tied at 3 after five innings before the Rainbows scored four runs in the top of the sixth — they were the designated visiting team last night — on a two-run single by Brent Cook and a two-run double by Lane Nogawa. That was the first time this season the Rainbows had more than one multiple-RBI hit in an inning. It gave UH starter Aaron Pribble a 7-3 cushion entering the bottom half of the inning.

After the double and walk, Pribble (four runs in five-plus innings) was replaced by William Quaglieri. He walked the first batter he faced to load the bases. After getting Powis on a ground out to second that scored the first run of the inning, Quaglieri yielded three successive RBI singles to tie the score at 7.

Quaglieri (2-4) was lifted for Bryan Lee, who allowed three hits, each driving in one run, as well as a fielder's choice that scored another. A throwing error after a force at second scored the ninth run of the inning before Faulkner grounded out to third to end the inning.

"It didn't look good for us at that particular time," UC Riverside coach Jack Smitheran said. "But one of the things the kids have been able to do is bounce back and keep on fighting. We had a 14-run inning against Oregon State. We knew we can do it (rally) at times, but realistically, these are few and far between."

Cordell Perkins (3-0) pitched 3á scoreless innings of relief for starter Julio Fernandez, who allowed seven runs in 5¡ innings.

Quaglieri, the most consistent reliever at one stretch of the season, gave up five runs on three hits and two walks in one-third of an inning.

The Rainbows took a 1-0 lead in the first without batting a ball out of the infield. Arthur Guillen walked and stole second before Cook walked. After Nogawa's sacrifice moved the runners up, Guillen scored on Gregg Omori's ground out to shortstop. Derek Honma also grounded out to short to end the inning, leaving a runner at third base.

The Highlanders scored twice in the bottom of the first on a sacrifice fly by Jimmy Anderson to score Brian Wahlbrink (4-for-5, 2 RBI) and an RBI single by Jason Collette.

The Rainbows regained the lead with a two-run fourth on an RBI ground out by Guillen and infield RBI single by Cook, who was 2-for-4 with three RBIs. But the Highlanders tied it in the bottom of the inning on Wahlbrink's RBI infield single.

The Rainbows will play San Jose State (3-0 in the tournament) at 6:35 tonight. The game does not count in the Western Athletic Conference standings.

The three-game total attendance for yesterday was 1,226.

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• San Jose State 6, Hawai'i-Hilo 5: Adam Shorsher hit a three-run homer with one out in the bottom of the eighth inning, rallying the Spartans (22-9, 3-0), winners of five in a row.

The Vulcans (9-27-1, 1-2) owned a 5-3 lead behind a strong outing by starter Clay Daugherty, who allowed three runs, two earned, in six innings. But in the eighth, Gabe Lopez and Ryan Adams sandwiched walks around a Hector Zamora fly out to set up Shorsher's homer off UHH reliever Jason Miyahira (1-1).

Mickey Manzo (1-0) pitched two scoreless innings of relief and Donald Gemmell pitched a scoreless ninth for his first save for SJSU.

The Vulcans had 11 hits, eight off SJSU starter Jeremy Rogelstad, who lasted 2¡ innings and allowed five runs. Kaliko Oligo, Darren Chu, Johnny Dudoit, Chad Agustin and Sean Tamura had two hits apiece. Dudoit, who had a double and triple, had three RBIs.

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Clay Daugherty, Jason Miyahira (7) and Nalei Sooto. Jeremy Rogelstad, Casey Minister (3), Mickey Manzo (7), Donald Gemmell (9) and Adam Shorsher. WP—Manzo. LP—Miyahira. Leading Hitters: UHH—Kaliko Oligo 2-4; Darren Chu 2-4, 2 runs; Jonny Dudoit 2-4, double, triple, 3 RBIs; Chad Agustin 2-4, double; Sean Tamura 2-4. SJSU—Ryan Adams 3 runs; Shorsher 2-3, homer, 2 runs, 2 RBIs.

• Lewis-Clark State 12, Hawai'i Pacific 1: William Simmons and Tim Petke combined on a five-hitter and Kapa'a High graduate Micah Furtado hit a two-run home run and a double for the Warriors (20-7, 2-1).

Furtado led the Warriors by batting 3-for-4 with four runs while Brendan Ryan batted 2-for-4, including a three-run home run in Lewis Clark State's six-run eighth.

Simmons (4-0) allowed one hit in five innings and Petke allowed a run in four innings for the save.

HPU fell to 17-19 and 0-3.

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Hawai'i Pacific 000 000 001— 1 5 3

William Simmons, Tim Petke (6) and Gabe Stajduhar. Toby Noe, Sean Paiva (6), Jesse Whittemore (8) and Shay Hirota. WP—Simmons. LP—Noe. Leading Hitters: LCS—Micah Furtado 3-4, double, homer, 4 runs, 2 RBIs; Paul Gallegos 2-6, 2 RBIs; Mike Madrid 2-5, 2 doubles; Zeph Zinsman 2-5, 2 doubles, 2 RBIs; Stajduhar 2-4, double; Brendan Ryan 2-4, homer, 2 runs, 3 RBIs; Emerson Frostad 3-5, double, 2 runs. HPU—Travis Covey double.