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HONOLULU—The No. 23/25 University of Hawai`i softball team held off St. Mary's, 1-0 then closed the night upsetting No. 16/8 Washington, 5-2 on the second day of the Oceanic Time Warner Cable Paradise Classic. Against the Gaels, Kaia Parnaby tossed a five-hit shutout with nine strike outs while Keiki Carlos earned her second win and launched her first career home run against the Huskies.
 
Hawai`i 1, St. Mary's 0
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Parnaby earned her second-complete game shutout of the season, with a 1-0 win over St. Mary's in UH's first game of the day. Thus far in the tournament, she has thrown 20 innings with two wins and two saves in four games. She has 31 strike outs with just one walk over the four games and has held opponents to a .092 batting average.
 
UH's first inning on offense started promising, with Kelly Majam drawing a lead-off walk and Wartner followed with a double into the rightfield corner to put runners at second and third. But Lira settled down to get a strike out and two pop ups to thwart the rally.
 
Hawai`i got its only run of the game in the bottom of the second when Kayla Wartner, who had reached safely on a fielder's choice, scored on a wild pitch from third.
 
St. Mary's Sarah Lira (0-1) took the loss, throwing 5.0 innings. She allowed the one run on five hits with five walks and three strike out. Jessica Lemmon tossed the final three outs, allowing one hit.
 
 
Hawai`i 5, Washington 2
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Carlos earned her second win in as many days, allowing two runs on six hits in four innings of work. Parnaby came in relief for the second straight day to earn her second save of the season. It was the fifth save of her career. She threw the final three innings, not allowing a hit with three K's.
 
Washington started the game by loading the bases with one out in the first inning on a fielding error and a pair of singles. But Carlos escaped when third baseman Alyssa Villalpando started a 5-2-3 double play to end the inning.
 
In the third inning, the Huskies' Kaitlin Inglesby drilled a two-run home run over the left-centerfield fence to give UW an early 2-0 lead. Later with two outs, UW drew two walks but then hit a slow liner to short to end the rally.
 
But Hawai`i would answer right back in the bottom of the frame. Brynne Buchanan led the inning off beating out an opposite-field single hit deep in the hole at short. After a popfly to second, Wartner laced a single through the right-side of the infield to put runners at first and second. A groundout to second pushed both runners into scoring position for Jessica Iwata, who came through with a clutch, opposite-field single that bounced into the rightfield corner to score both runners, knotting the game at 2-2.
 
Washington loaded the bases again in the fourth inning on three walks. But with two outs but Carlos was able to get out of the jam with a fly out to right to stymie UW.
 
In the bottom of the fourth, Carlos hit her first career home run which was a line-shot over the leftfield fence. It also marked the first home run for UH this season that gave the 'Bows a 3-2 lead.
 
In the top of the fifth, the Huskies got their first two batters on base on a walk and a single up the middle. Parnaby then entered the game and got the next batter to line out into a double play. On the play, second baseman Kaile Nakao climbed the ladder to snare a line drive and then tossed to Iwata who was covering second base to get two quick outs. Parnaby then struck out the next batter to end the inning.
 
Hawai`i added two more runs in the bottom of the fifth. Kelly Majam and Wartner both reached on walks issued by relief pitcher Joclyn Cater who had just entered the game. Bryana Walker, the original starter, then re-entered into the game and got a strike out. Iwata then hit a grounder to third, but the Majam slid past the third baseman to load the bases on the fielder's choice. Sharla Kliebenstein then drilled a single to leftfield to score Majam from third. On the play, the throw was cut off as the second baseman tried to pick off Iwata who had rounded second wide, but the throw sailed into centerfield allowing pinch runner Jazmine Zamora to sprint home safely for UH's fifth run.
 
UW's Walker threw 6.0 innings, giving up three runs on six hits with 10 strike outs and a walk. Cater was charged with two runs off of the two walks issued in the fifth.
 
UH is now 4-8 against the Huskies, and the win snapped a four-game losing streak dating back to 2005.
 
At 4-0, Hawai`i is the No. 1 seed as the tournament heads into bracket play on Saturday. Below is the schedule for the final day of the tournament.

Oceanic Time Warner Cable Paradise Classic Saturday Schedule 
11:00 am – Game 1: No. 4 Ole Miss (1-3) vs. No. 5 St. Mary's (0-4)
1:00 pm – Game 2: No. 1 Hawai`i (4-0) vs. Winner Game 1
3:00 pm – Game 3: No. 2 UAB (3-1) vs. No. 3 Washington (3-1)
5:00 pm – Game 4: Winner Game 2 vs. Winner Game 3 (Championship)