HONOLULU – The Hawai'i baseball team will conclude their 2021 season at Cal Poly Friday-Sunday in San Luis Obispo, Calif. The Rainbow Warriors will conclude the season with 50 games played and have a chance at their first .500 record in Big West Conference play since 2016 (12-12). 
 

HAWAI'I (24-20, 16-20 Big West) at Cal Poly (27-25, 17-19 Big West)
Date | Time				Friday, May 28 at 2 p.m. HT; Saturday (DH), May 29 at 10 a.m. HT; Sunday, May 30 at 10 a.m. HT
Location				San Luis Obispo, Calif. - Baggett Stadium
Television				none
Live Stream				BigWest.tv
Radio				ESPN Honolulu | Sideline Hawai'i App
Live Stats				Cal Poly Athletics
Game Notes				Hawai'i | Cal Poly
Social Media				@HawaiiBaseball  | #HawaiiBSB | @HawaiiBSB  | Facebook

   

PROBABLE ROTATION
HAWAI'I								CAL POLY
Name				Yr.		(Rec., ERA)	DAY	Name	Yr.		(Rec., ERA)
Aaron Davenport				So.	RHP	(3-5, 3.33)	Fri.	Drew Thorpe	R-Fr.	RHP	(5-6, 3.78)
Cade Halemanu				So.	RHP	(5-2, 3.57)	Sat. (1)	Andrew Alvarez	R-Jr.	LHP	(7-3, 4.05)
Austin Teixeira				Fr.	LHP	(3-2, 3.43)	Sat. (2)	TBA
Logan Pouelsen				Sr.	RHP	(4-2, 3.68)	Sun.	TBA

HEAD COACH MIKE TRAPASSO
Overall record: 535-524 (20th season)
At Hawai'i: same

SERIES VS CAL POLY
Overall record: 23-11, Cal Poly
Under Trapasso: 16-5, Cal Poly
Streak: Hawai'i, 1

FIRST PITCH

• Student-athletes friends and family will be allowed at Les Murakami Stadium for Senior Weekend against UC San Diego. It marks the first game with fans at LMS since March 8, 2020 against Oregon.
• Hawai'i has 23 draft-eligible players. Draft eligible does not mean they will be drafted, just that they are old enough or have played enough years in college baseball to be eligible for the MLB Draft.
• Adam Fogel has 50 multi-hit games in his career.
• Logan Pouelsen has won a career-high four games this season. 
• Cade Halemanu still leads the team with five wins.
• Cameron Hagan has the lowest batting average against on the staff (.203). 
• Aaron Davenport is seven strikouts away from 100K (93). The most since Matt Cooper in 2014 (106).
• Dustin Demeter was named National Player of the Week by Collegiate Baseball Newspaper and National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association after hitting .579 at Cal State Fullerton with three home runs and 14 RBI. Demeter had back-to-back games with 6 RBI.
• Hawai'i has shutout a Big West time twice in the same season for the first time since 2015 when the Rainbow Warriors had three BWC shutouts.
• Hawai'i has allowed the sixth fewest walks per nine innings in the country (2.56). UH led the nation prior to the weekend at CSUN.
• Hawai'i ranks 66th in the nation in batting average (.282) and ranks 4th in the Big West.
• Hawai'i pitchers have the 27th best strikeout-to-walk ratio in the country (3.83).
• Scotty Scott ranks 26th nationally in hit by pitch per game (0.37) and 32nd nationally in total HBP (15).
• Scott has put down the 17th most sacrifice bunts-per-game (0.22).
• Adam Fogel ranks t-60th in doubles (16), the eigth most in the country.
• Hawai'i's 10-game winning streak was the longest since 1998 and the longest in Trapasso's tenure.

NCAA EXTENDS EXTRA YEAR TO SPRING SPORTS ATHLETES

All returning college players were granted an additional year of eligibility due to the COVID-19 pandemic that ended the 2020 season six weeks into the season. All NCAA athletes (D-I, D-II and D-III), and junior college athletes keep their athletic standing from the 2020 season. Thus a freshman in 2020 is a freshman in 2021. A redshirt junior in 2020 stays a redshirt junior in 2021. 

Hawai'i has decided to label all athletes as their athletic eligibility rather than advance their eligibility or add on additional confusing language such as "second-year freshman" or "sixth-year junior."

Incoming freshmen are as listed, freshmen. 

HOMEGROWN TALENT
Head coach Mike Trapasso has built a strong contingent of talent from the Hawaiian islands, and brought in some of the top names from the 2020 class, including the second-ranked recruit in the state. In total, 18 of the teams' 37 roster spots are Hawai'i high school graduates, 10 of which are from O'ahu.
 

NAME	HOMETOWN (HIGH SCHOOL	YEAR	POS.
Bubba Akana	Honolulu, O'ahu (Saint Francis)	Fr.	INF
Tai Atkins	Kohala, Hawai'i (KS-Hawaii)	Fr.	LHP/OF
Naighel Calderon	Lanai City, Lanai (Lanai)	Fr.	OF
Matt Campos	Waipahu, O'ahu ('Iolani)	Jr.	INF
Nainoa Cardinez	Kapa'a, Kaua'i (Kapa'a)	Fr.	C/UTL
Dallas Duarte	Ke'eu, Hawai'i (KS-Hawai'i)	So.	C
Tyler Dyball	Honolulu, O'ahu (Kaiser)	Fr.	RHP
Cade Halemanu	Pearl City, O'ahu (Pearl City)	So.	RHP
Blake Hiraki	Honolulu, O'ahu ('Iolani)	Fr.	C
Trevor Ichimura	Honolulu, O'ahu ('Iolani)	Fr.	RHP
Jacob Igawa	Hilo, Hawai'i (Waiakea)	So.	UTL
Stone Miyao	Hilo, Hawai'i (Waiakea)	Fr.	INF
Konnor Palmeira	Kahalui, Maui (KS-Maui)	Fr.	C/UTL
Li'i Pontes	Honolulu, O'ahu (KS-Kapalama)	So.	RHP
Austin Teixeira	Waimanalo, O'ahu (Saint Louis)	Fr.	LHP/OF
Aaron Ujimori	Honolulu, O'ahu ('Iolani)	Fr.	INF
Safea Villaruz-Mauai	Hilo, Hawai'i (Waiakea)	Fr.	INF
Matt Wong	Honolulu, O'ahu (Saint Louis)	Jr.	OF

 





















DOLLARS FOR DOUBLES

• The University of Hawai'i Athletics and 'Ahahui Koa Ānuenue are inviting fans this year to make a "Dollars for Doubles" pledge for the 2021 baseball season.
• Although attendance at games is not possible due to COVID19 rules, this initiative provides an alternate way to cheer on the Rainbow Warriors from home while also supporting UH Athletics at the same time.
• Make your pledge here.

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