PHOENIX – The University of Hawai'i baseball team fell to Arizona State 6-5 and 9-6 on Saturday in the first and second games of the doubleheader at Phoenix Municipal Stadium.
 
Game 1:
The Rainbow Warriors (1-1) led Arizona State (3-2) after five innings and were tied after seven, but an eighth-inning inside-the-park home run from the Sun Devils plated two runs as ASU took game two of the series on Saturday.
 
Freshman Konnor Palmeira showed his power in his first collegiate at bat, sending a screamer into the left field bullpen for his first career home run. The two-run homer scored redshirt junior Dustin Demeter and gave the 'Bows an early lead in the second inning.
 
Hawai'i's starting pitcher, sophomore Cade Halemanu, threw 5.0 innings and allowed just three hits and two runs while striking out five. The Pearl City graduate walked five Sun Devils and had just one clean inning.
 
Making his debut out of the bullpen, freshman Jake Hymel (0-1) tossed three innings and gave up four runs on six hits.
 
Sophomore Tyler Best produced two hits as well as an RBI to pull the Rainbow Warriors within a run in the ninth and the 'Bows brought the go-ahead run to the plate with two outs.
 
ASU scored runs in the first inning on a wild pitch after a lead-off walk and a single moved the runner around. The Sun Devils plated a run in the third in similar fashion and a pair in the sixth on a walk, a pair of singles and a sacrifice fly.
 
The dagger for Hawai'i came on the two-out inside-the-park home run.

Game 2:
Hawai'i (1-2) left 14 base runners on the base paths and led twice after falling down 4-0 early in the second inning. Arizona State (4-2) used a three-run seventh and five runs over the fifth, sixth and seventh innings to win the series and sweep the doubleheader. 

Junior Kole Kaler, sophomore Jacob Igawa and freshman Aaron Ujimori all had two-hit games and sophomore Dallas Duarte tied the school record for getting hit by a pitch three different times in the game.

The Bows were down 4-0 in the second inning but used a five-run fourth inning to take the lead on four hits from redshirt junior Adam Fogel, Best, Ujimori and Kaler. UH left the bases loaded in the inning and also left the bases loaded in the fifth. 

ASU scored a run in the fifth, sixth and then three in the seventh after the 'Bows tied the game in the top of the seventh on an Igawa infield single.

Hawai'i's starting pitcher, freshman Connor Harrison lasted 2.0 innings and gave up four runs on six hits before junior Buddie Pindel (0-1) came on in relief for 4.0 innings of four-hit, three-run work. Pindel got tagged for the loss after starting the seventh inning. Redshirt freshman Tyler Dyball came in to close out the inning but game up two runs on three hits. Sophomore Cameron Hagan struck out a pair in the eighth inning in his Rainbow Warrior debut.

The Rainbow Warriors return home for a 12-game homestand beginning with a four-game set over four days against Hawai'i Pacific starting on March 4.