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Team at CSUB Gm 2
11
Winner Hawaii UH 12-6, 2-0 Big West
7
CSU Bakersfield CSUB 3-16, 0-2 Big West
Winner
Hawaii UH
12-6, 2-0 Big West
11
Final
7
CSU Bakersfield CSUB
3-16, 0-2 Big West
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Hawaii UH 0 0 0 6 3 1 0 1 0 11 14 1
CSU Bakersfield CSUB 0 0 0 0 6 0 1 0 0 7 13 4

W: Veloz, Danny (2-0) L: Gutierrez (0-1) S: Bodendorf, Harrison (1)

Game Recap: Baseball |

Baseball Secures Series Win over Bakersfield

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. – The Hawai'i baseball team built a big lead in the middle innings before hanging on late in an 11-7 win at Cal State Bakersfield to clinch the series victory Saturday.
 
UH (12-6, 2-0 Big West) will go for the series sweep of the Roadrunners Sunday on its Big West-opening weekend as the 'Bows won their fifth straight overall, the longest winning streak since May 2022.
 
The Rainbow Warriors broke a scoreless tie with a huge fourth inning, scoring six runs on six hits and sending 11 batters to the plate. After the first run scored on a fielder's choice, Ben Zeigler-Namoa dropped a bloop single into center field to make it 2-0. A passed ball scored the third run before Stone Miyao made it 4-0 on a sacrifice fly and Dallas Duarte and Elijah Ickes each delivered RBI base hits to put UH up 6-0.
 
The 'Bows added on with three more runs in the fifth to open up a nine-run lead. Kyson Donahue reached on an RBI fielder's choice to plate the first run before Dallas Duarte and Ickes followed with RBI singles in back-to-back at-bats to stretch the lead to 9-0.
 
The Roadrunners (3-16, 0-2 Big West) got right back in the game in the bottom half, scoring six runs on five hits off three different UH pitchers to make it 9-6.
 
Hawai'i responded right back with a run in the sixth on a Miyao RBI single while Austin Machado added another key insurance run in the eighth, smacking his first homer as a Rainbow Warrior over the right center field wall.
 
Bakersfield added another run in the seventh, but Danny Veloz and Harrison Bodendorf both delivered strong relief outings to hold off the Roadrunners. Veloz went 1.1 scoreless innings with a pair of strikeouts to earn the win while Bodendorf shut out CSUB over the final 2.1 innings to earn his first save of the year.
 
Ickes and Jordan Donahue each led the way offensively with three hits apiece, with Donahue going 3-for-5 with a double and run scored and Ickes 3-for-4 with an RBI. Machado finished the day 2-for-4 with three runs scored and his homer while Duarte and Zeigler-Namoa each had two-hit days, with Duarte also driving in a pair of runs.
 
The Rainbow Warriors and Roadrunners wrap-up their conference-opening series Sunday at 10 a.m. HT.
 
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