Box Score
HONOLULU -- Freshman pitcher
Justine Smethurst held off Texas State (3-2) to pick up her second win on the season. Hawai`i (3-1) defeated the Bobcats 2-1 in the third day of the Oceanic Time Warner Cable Paradise Classic. Smethurst threw a complete game, yielding only two hits while walking two and striking out five.
Tyleen Tausaga broke through a scoreless tie with a home run over the rightfield fence to give UH a 1-0 lead in the bottom of the fourth. The Mavericks responded in the top of the sixth when rightfielder Jill Kloesel bunted and Smethurst fielded it but threw it past the covering second baseman and as the ball rolled along the first baseline fence, Kloesel sprinted around the bases to score UTA's first run to knot the score at 1-1.
In the bottom half of the inning, UH rallied back scoring a single run in the bottom of the sixth when freshman centerfielder < biolink>Tanisha Milca drove in sophomore leftfielder Kaulana Gould from second for what would prove to be the winning run for the Rainbow Wahine.
Hawai`i was led by Tausaga who went 2-3 on the game with one run scored. For the Bobcats, Katie Ann Trahan also threw a complete game, spacing three hits, giving up two runs with five walks and two strike outs.
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Game 11: BYU vs. UTA Brigham Young finished play in the Paradise Classic with a x-x record, defeating the UTA Mavericks in the first game on day three. Third baseman Jodi Norton cranked a solo shot over the leftfield fence to give the Cougars an early 1-0 lead in the second inning. After the homer, BYU loaded the bases with one out on three walks, but UTA pitcher Nicki Wilson got out of the jam striking out one and getting the final out of the inning on a long fly ball to left field.
The Cougars added another run in the top of the fourth to make the score 2-0. Pinch hitter Renae Clark got a single and Krystle Chamberlain re-entered the game to run the bases. She consequently stole second and then scored on a single to left by Jenn Whitely.
The Mavericks got a run back in the bottom of the inning when Jenna Fortune hit a deep fly ball that left the ballpark just over BYU leftfielder Chamberlain's outstretched glove and over the fence.
BYU responded in the top of the fifth with a monster two-run shot over way over the leftfield wall by Norton for her second home run of the game. They then added another run in the top of the sixth on three consecutive singles to start the inning to make the score 5-1.
UTA mounted a rally in the bottom of the seventh, with April Clougherty scoring a single run on a hit up the middle by Autumn Petrino.
