VIDEO: Senior Day Ceremony

HONOLULU—The 14/17 University of Hawai`i softball team (40-5, 14-3 WAC) swept Fresno State (31-20, 11-5 WAC) for the first time in school history with a thrilling 1-0 win in 11 innings and 2-0 win on Senior Day in front of a capacity crowd at the Rainbow Wahine Softball Stadium. Junior Kaia Parnaby fired a three-hit complete game shutout in the first game while senior Stephanie Ricketts fired her sixth career no-hitter in the finale and set a new UH record with her 33rd career shutout. All three runs scored on the day were off of solo homers--two (one in each game) by Kayla Wartner and one by Alexandra Aguirre in her final game at the RWSS.

Hawai'i 1, Fresno State 0 (11 Innings)
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The first game of the double header was a pitcher's duel between Parnaby and Fresno State's Michelle Moses. Both starters went the distance and recorded their longest outings of their careers in the 11-inning marathon game.

Parnaby raised her overall record to 15-2 and 4-2 in conference with her eighth shutout of the season. She held the Bulldogs off the scoreboard, allowing just three hits with two walks and 10 strike outs. It was the third time this season that Parnaby had double digits in strike outs. 

Fresno State's Moses (20-13, 9-3 WAC) suffered the loss, throwing 10.0 innings, giving up one run, with four hits, three walks and eight strike outs. She took a no-hitter through the first 7.2 innings before Kelly Majam was able to hit an opposite-field single into leftfield.

Wartner came through in the clutch, hitting a walk-off, solo home run in the bottom of the 11th inning to win the first game. It was the second time this season that Wartner has hit a game winning home run with the first one coming in a 1-0 win against UMKC on Feb. 13.
 
The win raised UH's record to 39-5 overall and 13-3 in WAC action while the loss dropped Fresno State's record to 31-19 overall and 11-4 in conference.


Hawai'i 2, Fresno State 0
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Ricketts (25-4, 10-1 WAC) earned her second win against the Bulldogs in the series with her 27th complete game of the season. It was the second time this season that she's fired a no-hitter with her first one coming against San Jose State on March 24. Ricketts passed former UH great, Brooke Wilkins who had set and held the shutout record for the past 17 seasons. Ricketts allowed just two walks with seven strike outs in the win. No Bulldog runner advanced to third base in the game.
 
Wartner hit her second home run of the day in the third inning, breaking a scoreless game and giving UH an early 1-0 lead. She launched the homer over the rightfield fence for her fourth homer of the season.
 
Aguirre gave the 'Bows some breathing room after she launched her fifth home run of the season and 24th of her career. Aguirre's bomb was hit straightaway to centerfield and it gave UH a 2-0 lead with three outs to go.
 
Fresno State's Makenzie Oakes (9-5, 2-2 WAC) suffered the complete game loss, throwing 6.0 innings, allowing two runs on eight hits with no walks and six strike outs.
 
The Rainbow Wahine pitching staff of Ricketts and Kaia Parnaby combined to throw 20-straight scoreless innings against the Bulldogs who were averaging 3.2 runs a game.
 
Hawai`i is now in first place with a 14-3 WAC record and BYU is right behind at 12-4. Fresno State, who entered the week atop the WAC standings with a half-game lead, fell to third place at 11-5.
 
It was the final home games for eight Rainbow Wahine—including four-year junior Jocelyn Enrique and seniors Aguirre, Makani Duhaylonsod-Kaleimamahu, Shannon Lum, Dara Pagaduan, Rachel Paragas, Ricketts and Sarah Robinson.
 
Hawai`i will finish the regular season next week with a three-game series at Utah State and then they will stay on the mainland for the WAC Championship.