Box Score

HONOLULU - The University of Hawai`i Rainbow baseball team (12-9) fell to the Winthrop Eagles (16-5) 4-3 in 15 innings in front of a crowd of 2,101 at the Les Murakami Stadium Thursday. Guy McDowell (2-1) pitched 3.0 no-hit innings with one walk and three strikeouts, but gave up an unearned run, to get the loss. Jon Wilson (3-0) got the win for Winthrop.

Matthew Inouye had a career-high five hits in the game with a double. Isaac Omura added a 2-for-5 game with a home run and two RBI while Joseph Spiers and Daniel Magana both added two-hit nights.

Winthrop jumped out to an early 2-0 lead with runs in the first and third, both driven in by Jacob Dempsey.

After three hitless innings, the UH bats woke up in the fourth as Omura drove in Spiers to cut the deficit to a run. Magana then doubled down the leftfield line, scoring Jose Castaneda, to tie it up in the fifth.

Hawai`i then got the big blast in the sixth when Omura hit his second homer of the season to right field, giving the Rainbows the lead at 3-2.

The Eagles got back in it in the eighth, scoring on a fielder's choice to tie it a three, sending the game into extra innings.

Hawai`i had their chances down the stretch, but stranded 15 runners, including 10 in the extra innings. Winthrop took advantage of a UH error in the 15th, scoring an unearned run to take the game 4-3.

The two teams will play again tomorrow at 6:35 p.m. at the Les Murakami Stadium.

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