Jayson Kramer pitched eight strong innings and Hawai‘i beat Utah Valley, 7-2, tonight to take the opener of the four-game series at Les Murakami Stadium.

Kramer (5-4) allowed two runs, one earned and eight hits, while striking out seven for the Rainbows (30-22). Josh Slaats pitched a perfect ninth.
Shortstop Greg Garcia broke  a school record with 11 assists, breaking it on the final play of the game.
Kolten Wong hit his 11th home run of the season to increase UH’s team total to 61, an ongoing school record. 
Rory Jensen (2-5) allowed six runs, nine hits and three walks with two strikeouts in six-plus innings for the Wolverines (16-34).
Hawai‘i jumped to a 2-0 lead in the first inning on an RBI single by Kevin Macdonald and an error by the center fielder after the hit allowed a second run to score.
The Rainbows increased their lead to 4-0 in the second inning on a two-run double by Greg Garcia.
Hawai‘i continued its two-run sequence in the third inning, scoring on a RBI double by Christian Johnson and RBI single by Kevin Fujii to make it 6-0.
The Wolverines got a run in the fourth on a two-out run-scoring single by Goose Kallunki to make it 6-1.
Utah Valley got an unearned run in the sixth when Jake Brinkerhoff reached on shortstop Garcia’s fielding error and eventually scored on Kallunki’s second RBI single of the game to make it 6-2.
Wong led off the eighth with a homer to right to increase UH’s lead to 7-2.