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Fresno State sweeps Hawai'i in softball
Advertiser Staff
A day after being swept in a softball doubleheader by visiting University of Hawai'i, the Fresno State Bulldogs returned the favor with 7-0 and 6-0 wins yesterday.
Jamie Southern (13-9) earned both pitching victories — a three-hit, nine-strikeout performance in the opener, and a six-hit, five-strikeout effort in the second.
Southern also batted 4-for-4, with a double and two RBIs in the first game.
Tracie Uchima had two of UH's three hits in the opener.
In the second game, Fresno State scored two runs with the help of three UH errors in the third inning, then moved out of reach with a four-run fifth inning spiced by Angelina Diaz's two-run single.
Fresno State improved to 20-17 overall while UH fell to 21-16. Both are 2-2 in the Western Athletic Conference.
Game One
HAWAI'I 000 000 0—0 3 2
FRESNO STATE 101 005 x—7 12 1
Melissa Coogan and Denise Dahlberg. Jamie Southern and Pam West. W—Southern, 12-9. L— Coogan, 16-9.
Leading hitters: Hawai'i— Tracie Uchima 2-3. Fresno State—Angelina Diaz 2-3; Lori Hoffman 2-4, 2 RBIs; Southern 4-4, double, 2 RBIs;
Game Two
HAWAI'I (21-16, 2-2) 000 000 0—0 6 3
FRESNO STATE (20-17, 2-2) 002 040 x—6 5 1
Paula Blanning, Shannon Tabion (5) and Denise Dahlberg. Jamie Southern and Pam West. W—Southern, 13-9. L— Blanning, 1-1.
Leading hitter: Fresno State—Angelina Diaz 2 RBIs.
MORE SOFTBALL
• HPU falls in semifinals: Cal State Bakersfield held off Hawai'i Pacific, 4-1, yesterday in the Gold Bracket Championship semifinals of the Easton Tournament of Champions at Modesto, Calif.
The Sea Warriors beat Sonoma State, 6-4, and Cal State Dominguez Hills, 4-2, earlier in the day to advance in the three-day, 20-team tournament.
Also yesterday, Chaminade beat San Francisco State, 1-0, and UC San Diego edged Hawai'i-Hilo, 1-0, in eight innings.
HPU was the lone Hawai'i team to reach bracket play, and the Sea Warriors made a strong bid to reach the title game.
HPU trailed 4-0 entering the seventh, but three of its first four batters singled with Brandy Choy Foo's hit making it 4-1 with one out.
That's when Erin Kelly replaced starter Christie Hill for Bakersfield and got the next two batters on strikeouts, leaving two runners stranded.
Choy Foo was named to the all-tournament first team while teammate Rachel Lacar, who batted 3-for-3 against Bakersfield, was chosen to the second team.
Jillian Umeda had Chaminade's lone hit in its win over San Francisco State. She led off the fourth with a single and eventually scored on an error.
Donnell Whittekind pitched a four-hitter for the Silverswords with two strikeouts.
Hilo lost a heart-breaker to UC San Diego as Leo Sing Chow pitched a two-hitter over eight innings with nine strikeouts.
Sing Chow allowed a single in the first and a single in the eighth that drove in the game's only run.
The Vulcans threatened in the bottom of the eighth, but — with the tying run on third — the final two batters grounded out.
HAWAI'I PACIFIC 000 000 1—1 7 3
CS BAKERSFIELD 011 020 x—4 6 2
Jessica Parra, Malia Sullivan (4) and Anuhea Diamond. Christie Hill, Erin Kelly (7) and Tara Licuanan. W—Hill, 9-3. L— Parra, 7-6. S—Kelly, 2.
Leading hitters: Hawai'i Pacific— Rachel Lacar 3-3. Bakersfield—Ambers Mills 2-2, double.
SONOMA STATE 400 000 0—4 9 2
HAWAI'I PACIFIC 210 010 2—6 9 2
Donna Callaway, Isabel Banales (2) and Lindsay Frey. Jessica Parra and Anuhea Diamond. W—Parra. L—Banales.
Leading hitters: Sonoma State—Monica Centoni 2-4; Audrey Rhyne 2 RBIs; Heather James 2-2. HPU—Holly Garcia 2-4, home run, 2 runs, 2 RBIs; Brandy Choy Foo 2-2.
CS COMINGUEZ HILLS 011 000 0—2 4 1
HAWAI'I PACIFIC 400 000 X—4 5 4
Kim O'Hanian, Valerie Long (1) and Daisy Flores, Natalie Greco. Mallory Anderson, Malia Sullivan (4) and Anuhea Diamond. W—Sullivan. L—Long.
Leading hitters: HPU—Brandy Choy Foo 2-3, double; Kristin Fujii 2-3.
SAN FRANCISCO ST. 000 000 0—0 4 1
CHAMINADE 000 100 x—1 1 2
Sonja Garnett, Jenna Dierking (5) and Rachel Darrow. Donnell Whittekind and Alicia Quindt. W—Whittekind. L—Garnett.
UC SAN DIEGO 000 000 01—1 2 0
HAWAI'I-HILO 000 000 00—0 3 0
Stephanie Kurz and Kristin Hunstad. Leo Sing Chow and Kayla Kahuli. W—Kurz. L—Sing Chow.
RESULTS INVOLVING HAWAI'I TEAMS
Friday
UH-Hilo 7, Chico State 3. UC-Davis 5, Chaminade 0. Sonoma State 4, UH-Hilo 1. UC San Diego 7, Hawai'i Pacific 5.
Saturday
CSU Bakersfield 2, Hawai'i Pacific 1. CSU Dominguez Hills 3, Chaminade 1. Hawai'i Pacific 5, Chico State 1. CSU Stanislaus 6, Chaminade 1.
Yesterday
Hawai'i Pacific 6, Sonoma State 4. Chaminade 1, San Francisco State 0. UC San Diego 1, UH-Hilo 0 (8 innings).
Gold Bracket Championship
Hawai'i Pacific 4, CSU Dominguez Hills 2.
Semifinals: CSU Bakersfield 4, Hawai'i Pacific 1; UC Davis 5, Western Washington 3.
Final: CSU Bakesfield 2, UC Davis 1
BASEBALL
• O'ahu champ wins AJA title: O'ahu champion McCully beat Big Island champion Hilo, 2-1, yesterday in the Hawai'i State AJA Tournament Championship game at Francis Wong Stadium in Hilo.
Sean Yamashita, named MVP of the tournament, held Hilo to three hits and struck out five in a game that was shortened to seven innings because of rain.
Danny Kimura's bases-loaded single in the top of the third inning was one of eight McCully hits and scored two runs to give McCully a 2-0 lead.
Justin Merritt doubled and eventually scored on a wild pitch in the fifth to close Hilo to 2-1.
MCCULLY (O'ahu) 002 000 0—2 8 0
HILO (Hawai'i) 000 010 0—1 3 1
Sean Yamashita and Robin Ho. Tony DeSa, Klayford Naka'ahiki (6) and Chad Canda. W—Yamashita. L—DeSa.
Leading Hitters—McCully: Sean Takamori 2-2; Danny Kimura 2 RBIs. Hawai'i-Hilo: Justin Merritt 2 runs.
WATER POLO
• Brooks saves L.A.: Goalkeeper Brandon Brooks of Honolulu made 12 saves yesterday as his Los Angeles Water Polo Club defeated the Northern California National Team, 13-6, to finish in first place in USA Water Polo's Premier League.
The top seven teams and one foreign team will play for the league championship May 2-4 in Southern California.
Los Angeles finished 14-2, one game ahead of the Newport Water Polo Foundation (13-2).
