HONOLULU--The University of Hawai'i softball team (9-6, 0-0 BW) continues their month-long homestan hosting the Hawai'i Spring Fling Tournament. The four-day tourney runs from Thursday, March 2 - Monday, March 6, 2023 at the Rainbow Wahine Softball Stadium. Competing in the six-team tournament are Niagara, Pacific, St. Bonaventure, Santa Clara, Utah and Hawai'i.
 

HAWAI'I SPRING FLING TOURNAMENT (Mar. 2-6, 2023) Hawai'i (BW),  Niagara (MAAC), Pacific (WCC), St. Bonaventure (A10), Santa Clara (WCC), Utah (PAC-12)
Tournament Schedule				Thursday, Mar. 2, 2023 3:30 P.M. HT - Niagara vs. St. Bonaventure 6:00 P.M. HT - HAWAI'I VS. St. Bonaventure Friday, Mar. 3, 2023 10:00 A.M. HT - Utah vs. St. Bonaventure 12:00 P.M. HT - Utah vs. Santa Clara 2:00 P.M. HT - Pacific vs. St. Bonaventure 4:00 P.M. HT - Pacific vs. Niagara 6:00 P.M. HT - HAWAI'I VS. SANTA CLARA Saturday, Mar. 4, 2023 10:00 A.M. HT - Santa Clara vs. St. Bonaventure 12:00 p.m. HT - Santa Clara vs. Niagara 2:00 P.M. HT - Utah vs. Niagara 4:00 P.M. HT - Utah vs. Pacific 6:00 P.M. HT - HAWAI'I VS. PACIFIC Sunday, Mar. 5, 2023 10:00 A.M. HT - Pacific vs. Niagara 12:00 P.M. HT - HAWAI'I VS. NIAGARA Monday, Mar. 6, 2023 1:30 P.M. HT - Niagara vs. Utah 4:00 P.M. HT - HAWAI'I VS. UTAH
Location				Rainbow Wahine Softball Stadium (1,200) - Honolulu, O'ahu
Promotions				Great Prizes will be awarded throughout the Hawai'i Spring Fling Tournament to the winners of the popular "Ballpark Bingo." Also, T-shirts will be thrown into the stands during the fourth inning of every UH game
Live Stats				HawaiiAthletics.com
Game Day Rosters				Hawai'i Spring Fling Tournament - Game Day Rosters
Game Notes				Hawai'i  |  Niagara  |  Pacific  |  St. Bonaventure  |  Santa Clara  |  Utah
Social Media				@HawaiiSB  | #HawaiiSB | @HawaiiSoftball  | Facebook
Tickets				Admission is FREE

HEAD COACH: Bob CoolenOverall record: 1,129-764-1 (37th Season)
At Hawai'i: 1,057-671-1 (32nd Season)

NIAGARA PURPLE EAGLES (1-3, 0-0 MAAC)Series History: UH leads NIagara 5-0
Streak: UH is 5-0 against the Purple Eagles. The last meeting against NU was a 3-0 win on March 16, 2019 in the Outrigger Spring Fling Tournaemnt.
Head Coach: Larry Puzan (11th season)

PACIFIC TIGERS (2-9, 0-0 WCC)Series History: Pacific leads UH 34-32 overall
Streak: In the 2014 Spring Fling Tourney in Honoluu, UH and Pacific split their two games against each other. UH first held off the former Big West rival, 8-7 on 3/6/14, but Pacific avenged their loss to defeat UH, 4-2 on 3/8/14.
Head Coach: Brian Kolze (31st Season)

ST. BONAVENTURE BONNIES (0-5, 0-0 A10)Series History: UH leads, 3-1
Streak: UH won their last two meetings--including a win to end last week's Bank of Hawaii Invitational as UH defeated SBU, 2-0 on Sunday, Feb. 26.
Head Coach: Mike Threehouse (20th season)

SANTA CLARA (6-9, 0-0 WCC)Series History: UH leads the series, 11-3.
Streak: UH has won the last seven. In 2009, UH played the Broncos three times, one at home in a pre-season tournament and twice while on the road for their San Jose State series while UH was still in the WAC. UH won all three  meeting that year. The last time Santa Clara wson was in 2003.
Head Coach: Gina Carbonatto (Fourth Season)

UTAH UTES (11-4, 0-0 PAC-12)Series History: UH leads series, 21-15
Streak: Utah has won the last three. Last meeting was a 2-3 loss on March 12, 2019.
Head Coach: Amy Hogue (15th Season)

 
NEWS & NOTES•Hawai'i went 2-2 in last week's Bank of Hawaii Invitational. The 'Bows dropped the first two games, but then bounced back to win their last two with wins over Marist and St. Bonaventure. In the tourney finale, In the bottom of the sixth and the score knotted at 0-0, Haley Johnson launched a two-run bomb for what proved to be the winning runs, while Brianna Lopez had her best outing of the season, firing a complete game, two-hit shutout over the Bonnies. She struck out a season-high nine batters while facing just 23 batters.

•FIDGE EARNS UH'S SECOND-STRAIGHT BIG WEST FRESHMAN OF THE WEEK AWARDS - Rookie pitcher Millie Fidge fired a complete, 7.0 game win—her longest outing of the season—to earn her first collegiate win. She evened her record at 1-1, allowing two runs on six hits with three walks and a career-high seven strikeouts in Hawai'i's win over Marist on Saturday on the second day of the Bank of Hawaii Invitational.
    Fidge is the most recent pitcher to come through head coach Bob Coolen's Australian pitcher pipeline—which includes All-Americans Brooke Wilkins, Kelly Gentle, Kaia Parnaby and more. Overall, she is the 13th Aussie to don the Green and White.
    Overall, Fidge has a 3.50 ERA in six appearances and 20.0 innings pitched. She has struck out 20 batters while walking just eight.
    Fidge is the second-straight Rainbow Wahine to be named Big West Freshman of the Week. Last week Key-Annah Campbell-Pua was tabbed both BW Pitcher and Freshman of the Week.

•JOHNSON COMING THROUGH IN THE CLUTCH- Sophomore Haley Johnson hit a team-best .385 with a team-highs of five hits, five RBI (tied with Izabella Martinez) and a home run. Currently, she is on an eight-game hitting streak and has reached base safely in 11 consecutive games. She accounted for five of the teams 12 runs  last week. Overall, the designated player/catcher leads UH with a .370 batting average with a team-high 17 hits and 18 RBI. Johnson also leads UH with seven multiple-RBI games.

•NCAA/BIG WEST RANKINGS - After leading the nation in double plays last season, UH continues to be one of the nation's best in turning two. Currently, the 'Bows are ranked at No. 7 in the NCAA and leads the Big West with 0.67 DP's/game. Hawai'i is also in the NCAA Top 20 drawing 63 walks. UH leads the Big West in home runs per game, double plays per game and total walks.
Individually...
•Brianna Lopez leads the league and is ranked No. 27 in the NCAA with five wins
•Maya Nakamura's .574 on-base percentage leads the BW and is No. 35 in the NCAA
•Haley Johnson Is No. 1 in the BW and No. 23 in the NCAA with 18 RBI
•Mya'Liah Bethea's six home runs leads the league and ranks her No. 7 in the NCAA; and she's #1 in the BW in total bases with 36 and is ranked NO. 27 in the nation
•Izabella Martinez is No. 1 in the BW as the "toughest batter to strikeout" which ranks her No. 27 in the NCAA
•Xiao Gin leads the league with 1.00 walks/game and is No. 7 in the NCAA
•Ka'ena Keliinoi is #1 in the league and #4 in the NCAA averaging .40 sacrifice bunts per game.

• LOPEZ FIRING AWAY - Sophomore pitcher Brianna Lopez continues to anchor the UH pitching rotation. She leads UH with a 1.54 ERA and a 5-2 record with five complete games. On Sunday, she had her best outing of the season, earned her first complete-game shutout of the season with a two-hitter against St. Bonaventure. She fanned a season-high nine strikeouts with no walks. Overall, she has recorded 28 strikeouts to 16 walks in 41.0 innings pitched.

•MARTINEZ CONTINUES HOT HITTING - Sophomore catcher Izabella Martinez continued her hot hitting and is second ont he team with a .368 average. Her four doubles ar e a team-high and her 14 RBI is tied for second. In UH's win over Marist, she drove in four runs to tie her career high.

•GIN LEADING SETTING THE TABLE - Junior shortstop Xiao Gin leas UH with 14 runs scored and is ranked No. 1 in the BW averaging 1.00 walks per game. Overall she is hitting .357 (15-for-42)with a double and a triple. Gin leads UH with five multiple-hit games and with 15 walks to just one strikeout.