Updated at 4:37 p.m., Saturday, March 17, 2007
UH rolls past Wisconsin-Milwaukee in baseball, 10-3
Advertiser Staff
Derek DuPree drove in three runs to lead Hawai'i over Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 10-3, today in the first game of a non-conference baseball doubleheader at Les Murakami Stadium.Mark Rodrigues (6-1) allowed three runs and 10 hits with no walks and one strikeout in seven innings for UH (17-8). Cam Wheeler tagged on two scoreless innings of relief.
Tim Hoy (0-1) gave up four runs, three hits and three walks in two innings for the Panthers (0-11).
DuPree was 1 for 4 with a two-run double and squeeze. Landon Hernandez was 3 for 3 with a walk and three runs for UH, while Kyle Silver was 4 for 4 with a triple for the Panthers.
Milwaukee drew first blood for the second time in as many games. With one out in the second, Rob Brockel singled and one out later, scored on Ross McCoy's double to center. Kyle Silver tripled down the right-field line to make it 2-0 before Jesse Hart fouled out to first to end the inning.
The Rainbows scored four in the bottom of the second on a throwing error by the shortstop, an RBI single by Landon Hernandez and two-run double by DuPree against Hoy.
Hawai'i sent nine batters to the plate in a four-run fourth. The Rainbows scored on DuPree's squeeze, Frash's two-run single and Kris Sanchez's RBI single to extend UH's lead to 8-2.
The Rainbows added two in the eighth when DuPree grounded into a bases-loaded double play and on an RBI single by Brandon Haislet to make it 10-3.
