HONOLULU – Rather than needing to comeback via a five-run inning, the University of Hawai'i baseball team used a six-run inning to jump in front of Oregon early on its way to a 13-5 victory on Friday night at Les Murakami Stadium.
 
The six runs scored in the second inning were a season-high for the Rainbow Warriors (10-5) and the most since scoring 12 in an inning against UC Riverside on April 13, 2019. The six hits in the inning were the most since 2019 in that same game when Hawai'i had 10 hits.
 
Hawai'i's starter, Aaron Davenport won his NCAA-leading fourth game by going 7.0 innings with a season-high nine strikeouts on a career-high 111 pitches. Davenport allowed just five hits, two runs and two walks.
 
Seven different starters had hits in the game and two different Rainbow Warriors had multi-RBI games.
 
Four different Hawai'i players had multi-hit games including three-hit nights from sophomore right fielder Scotty Scott, who had a career-high three RBI, and redshirt junior designated hitter Adam Fogel. Fogel pushed his average up 92 points with his second three-hit game of the year. Fogel is now hitting .255 on the year and is hitting .368 over the last five games.
 
Junior shortstop Kole Kaler continued his hot streak with a two-hit, three-RBI game. Kaler has had multi-RBI games in both games of the Oregon series thus far.

The Rainbow Warriors jumped on the Ducks in the second inning sending 11 to the plate with Fogel leading off the inning with his first hit. Back-to-back one-out singles loaded the bases for redshirt junior infielder Matt Campos who got hit by a pitch to bring in Fogel.
 
A second string of back-to-back singles from Scott and Kaler brought in three more runs, one on Scott's hit and two on Kaler's. A passed ball brought home the sixth run of the inning.
 
Hawai'i tacked on a seventh run in the fifth inning on a sacrifice fly and then scored four in the sixth.
 
A lead-off walk by sophomore left fielder Tyler Best, a single by junior Matt Wong and a walk by Campos loaded the bases for Scott.
 
Scott took an inside pitch deep to right field which bounced off the shelf of the wall and fell inside the fence. Originally ruled a grand slam, Scott was sent back to second base and Campos to third and ruled a ground rule double.
 
Kaler then laced a double into right center to score Campos. Sophomore catcher Dallas Duarte walked with the bases loaded to bring home the 11th run of the game.
 
The Rainbow Warriors scored two more runs in the seventh inning on three hits and two more Duck errors.
 
The two teams will be back in Les Murakami Stadium for game three of four Saturday night at 6:35 p.m.