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LONG BEACH STATE—The University of Hawai'i softball team was swept in a doubleheader by Long Beach State on the final day of the regular season. In both games, the 49ers struck in the bottom of the sixth and then held off the Rainbow Wahine in their final at-bats for the wins at the LBSU Softball Complex on Saturday afternoon.
 
 
Long Beach State 4, Hawai'i 2
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The Rainbow Wahine got on the scoreboard first, posting one run in the top of the second inning. Tayana Mata led the inning off with a single up the middle. After a fly out to leftfield, Dori Ann Sugai and Ulu Matagiese were both plunked to load the bases. Long Beach State got the second out on a strikeout, but then Sarah Muzik drew a walk to force Mata across the plate for the early 1-0 lead. The 49ers escaped further damage getting a slow roller to third for the final out.
 
Long Beach State overtook the 'Bows by scoring a pair of runs in the bottom of the fourth. The 49ers started the inning with back-to-back singles with Darian Tautalafua leading off with a single followed by Julia Lombardi's double to put both runners into scoring position. Tautalafua then scored on a passed ball and Lombardi later scored on a single by Nichole Fry to give LBSU a 2-1 lead.
 
Hawai'i tied the score in the top of the sixth inning on a two-out rally. After two groundouts, Matagiese and pinch hitter Rachel Lack were both hit by the pitch. Muzik then drilled a single right back up the middle to drive in Matagiese from second to knot the score at 2-2.
 
The 49ers, however, battled back to retake the lead in the bottom of the sixth, loading the bases and then getting a clutch two-run single from Irma Sanchez to go up 4-2 for the win.
 
Lopez, who went 2-for-4 in the game, kept her hitting streak alive, raising it to 11-straight games. She also reached base safely for the 18th-straight game. Morales also had a solid game at the plate, going 2-for-4 in the game.
 
Hitchcock fired her 19th complete game of the season, allowing four runs on seven hits with three walks and a strike out.  With the loss, Hitchcock falls to 13-15 overall.
 
LBSU's Christina Clermont also fired a complete game, giving up two runs on six hits with five strikeouts and two walks to improve to 21-10 overall.
 
 
Long Beach State 1, Hawai'i 0
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The final regular season game of the season was a pitchers' duel between UH's Kanani Aina Cabrales and LBSU's Clermont. Clermont went on to win both of Saturday's games in complete game efforts.
 
Aina Cabrales threw one of her best games of the season. She came out firing, retiring the first 10 batters she faced before giving up a single with one out in the fourth. She then went onto retire the next five of six straight hitters before getting touched for a run in the bottom of the sixth. She threw 6.0 innings to record her 17th complete game of the season. She gave up one run on four hits with a walk and two strike outs.
 
Clermont fired her second complete game of the day, shutting out UH as she yielded just three hits with two walks and five strike outs.
 
Hawai'i had opportunities to score early on, but were unable to cash in. In the second inning UH loaded the bases with one out on a hit by Mata and two beaned batters (Rachel Lack and Matagiese). But LBSU escaped, getting out of the jam with a groundout and a strike out looking to preserve their unblemished scorecard.
 
UH left two more runners on in the top of the third. In all, UH left seven runners on base for the game.
 
The game was scoreless until Long Beach State posted a single run in the bottom of the sixth. The leadoff (pinch)-hitter, Mattie Scheele drew a walk which was followed by three consecutive singles which resulted in Alley Perkins crossing the plate to score the game's only run.
 
Although Lopez's hitting streak was snapped at 11 after going 0-for-3 in the season finale, her streak of reaching base safely was extended to nine-straight games.
 
Matagiese was hit by a pitch three times during the doubleheader. She now is tied for the all-time UH career record with 44 career plunks to join former Rainbow Wahine alumnae Kanani Pu'u-Warren (2007-10) and Alex Aguirre (2009-12).
 
It is just the third time during head coach Bob Coolen's 25 years at the helm on the UH softball program that the team finished the season with a losing record. 

Saturday's doubleheader was the final games for five Rainbow Wahine seniors--Keiki Carlos, Tayana Mata, Sarah McAndrew, Dori Ann Sugai and Kiani Wong.