Posted at 9:21 p.m., Friday, April 28, 2006
Hawaii tops Sacramento State in baseball, 3-2
By Stacy Kaneshiro
Advertiser Staff Writer
The Rainbows (30-12 overall, 8-6 WAC) trail first-place Fresno State and Louisiana Tech, both at 9-6.
Wright pitched 7 2/3· innings, allowing seven hits and a walk with four strikeouts for UH. Darrell Fisherbaugh pitched 1 1/3 scoreless innings for his eighth save.
Matt Campbell (4-8) gave up three runs (two earned), eight hits and two walks with two strikeouts in eight innings for the Hornets (20-25, 8-8).
The Rainbows broke the scoreless tie in the third. With one out, Eli Christensen homered just inside the right-field foul pole, his first round-tripper of the season.
The Hornets took the lead in the fifth. Pat Keiper led off with a walk and one out later scored on Brian Blauser's double to left to tie the game at 1. Brian Conradi reached on an infield single deflected by Wright to shortstop Christensen to put runners at the corners. Blauser then scored on Montana Dye's sacrifice fly to left to put Sacramento State up, 2-1.
The Rainbows regained the lead in the sixth. Avila led off with a single to center and scored on Matt Inouye's triple off left-fielder Conradi's glove that caromed to the center-field wall. Inouye scored when second baseman Gary Johnson's relay to third went into the third base dugout for an error to put UH up 3-2.
