Hawai'i exploded for seven runs in the first inning to back strong outing by Jared Alexander in a 9-6 win against San Francisco today in the first game of a college baseball doubleheader at Les Murakami Stadium.

Matt Baugh pitched eight-plus innings to lift the Dons to a 6-5 win in the second game.

Hawai'i is 4-2. San Francisco is 1-2.

Alexander (2-0) went 6· innings, giving up two runs, both unearned, and seven hits with no walks and four strikeouts for the Rainbows. Harrison Kuroda added 1° scoreless innings, but Joey Parsons needed help in the ninth, retiring one batter while allowing four runs on three singles and three walks. Jayson Kramer came in and retired the last two batters for his first save.

Evan Fredrickson (0-1) was tagged for seven runs, four earned, allowing four walks and a hit batsman without recording an out for the Dons.

The Rainbows sent 11 batters up in the first in a seven-run first. Jon Hee led off with a walk and reached second safely on a fielder's choice and error when shortstop Tavo Hall dropped a throw from Fredrickson after fielding Derek DuPree's bunt. Brandon Haislet walked to load the bases and Vinnie Catricala walked to give UH a 1-0 lead. Jeff Van Doornum followed with a two-run single to center and Kevin Macdonald walked to reload the bases. Landon Hernandez singled to right to make it 4-0 to keep the bases loaded. Kevin Fujii was hit by a pitch to make it 5-0 and ending Fredrickson's day.

Matt Lujan came in and got Nate Young to ground into a double play with the outs made at first and home before Hee's two-run single made it 7-0. DuPree flied out to left to end the inning.

The Rainbows added a run in the second. Haislet led off with a single to center and one out later scored on Van Doornum's double to center to make it 8-0.

The Dons got two in the fourth. Dane Braunecker reached on shortstop Young's fielding error and took third on Zach Kim's double to right-center. Two outs later, both scored on Connor Bernatz's single to left to make it 8-2.

Hawai'i got another run in the fourth. Haislet led off with a single and Catricala walked. One out later, Haislet stole third, as Catricala held first. Haislet scored on Macdonald's sacrifice fly to center to make it 9-2.

The Dons made it a game in the ninth against Parsons, who gave up three successive singles to load the bases before Railey's sacrifice fly made it 9-3. Parsons then walked three consecutive batters to force across two more runs to make it 9-5 before being pulled for Kramer, who got Drew Johnson on a fielder's choice grounder to short that allowed another run to score and then struck out Connor Bernatz to end the game.

In the second game, Baugh

(1-0) allowed four runs, six hits and two walks with six strikeouts for the Dons (1-2). Joe Oropeza got the final three outs, but not before stranding runners at the corners by striking out Catricala to end the game. Oropeza allowed a run on two walks and single.

UH starter Sam Spangler's night ended in the second, when he walked four batters. Johnson led off with a walk and took second on Bernatz's sacrifice. Johnson stole third and scored on catcher Hernandez's throwing error. Tavo Hall walked, stole second and Bobby Ethel walked. On ball four to Ryan Lipkin, the runners were going and Hernandez's throw to second was wild, allowing Hall to score. Spangler was lifted for Nick Rhodes, who minimized the damage by retiring the next two batters to end the inning to keep it 2-0.

The Dons added a run in the fourth. Bernatz reached on a bunt single to third, took second on Hall's sacrifice, advanced to third when Ethel grounded out to second and scored on Lipkin's ground single to center to make it 3-0.

San Francisco added two in the fifth off Rhodes to make it 5-0. A Johnson sacrifice fly in the seventh increased USF's lead to 6-0.

The Rainbows got two in the seventh. Kevin Macdonald led off with a walk and took third on Van Doornum's double to right. Ryan Morford grounded out to second to score Macdonald and send Van Doornum to third, where he scored on Hernandez's single to right to pull UH to within 6-2.

The Rainbows pulled to within 6-4 in the ninth on a RBI ground out by Evan Zimny and sacrifice fly by Hernandez. Walks to Matt Roquemore and DuPree set up Hee's RBI single to pull UH to within one. But Catricala struck out to end the game.

Van Doornum had a productiive doubleheader going 2 for 4 in each of the games with three doubles, including two in the second game. He had three RBISs in the first game and scored two runs in the second game.

The two teams complete their four-game series at 1:05 p.m. today at Les Murakami Stadium.