Box Score

HONOLULU - The University of Hawai`i Rainbow baseball (5-3) fell to the Pacific Tigers (6-5) 2-1 in 13 innings at the Les Murakami Stadium Sunday in front of a crowd 2,339. Steven Wright (1-1) pitched 5.1 innings, giving up just one run on two hits, but got the loss. Josh Schmidt (2-0) got the win for Pacific.

Isaac Omura had a 2-for-5 gamw with on RBI, while Joseph Spiers had his fifth-straight multi-hit game, going 2-for-6 with two stolen bases. Daniel Magana also came up with a 2-for-4 game with a double. UH starter Justin Costi pitched well, giving up just one run on four hits with one walk while striking out five in 7.2 innings pitched.

Pacific scored first for the fourth time in the series, as Anthony Jackson drove in a run on a ground out to second in the top of the fifth. But the Rainbows responded right away as Omura hit a single to right-center in the bottom of the sixth, scoring Gregory Kish to tie it up.

That was the way it stayed until Jackson again came up big for the Tigers in the top of the 13th, hitting a run-scoring single to make it 2-1.

Hawai`i had their chances, but left runners in scoring position in the third, fourth, fifth, 11th, 12th and 13th innings.

UH will next host Washington State for another four-game series starting Thursday, Feb. 24, at 6:35 p.m.

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