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Baseball Win Pic at Santa Clara
5
Winner Hawaii UH 23-8
3
Santa Clara SCU 13-16
Winner
Hawaii UH
23-8
5
Final
3
Santa Clara SCU
13-16
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Hawaii UH 0 0 2 0 1 0 1 1 0 5 9 0
Santa Clara SCU 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 3 1

W: Jones, Max (1-0) L: HABERMANN, Andrew (0-1) S: Thomas, Ethan (2)

Game Recap: Baseball |

Baseball Begins Road Trip with Win at Santa Clara

SANTA CLARA, Calif. – Behind a dominant bullpen effort and a couple of clutch hits in the late innings, the Hawai'i baseball team beat Santa Clara Tuesday, 5-3, to open an eight-game road trip.  
 
Seven Rainbow Warrior pitchers combined to hold the Broncos to just three hits with 11 strikeouts, with the only three runs coming in on a three-run homer. Max Jones and Ethan Thomas combined to shut out SCU over the final four innings, with Jones earning his first win of the year throwing two perfect innings with three strikeouts. Thomas followed and locked down his second save with two scoreless frames, fanning four and allowing just a hit and walk in the ninth.
 
Locked in a 3-3 game after six innings, UH capitalized on a key Bronco error in the seventh to take the lead. Ben Zeigler-Namoa led off the frame with a double to left center and moved up to third on a throwing error on the relay throw by the Santa Clara shortstop. Jared Quandt came up one batter later and delivered a sacrifice fly to right field to score Zeigler-Namoa and make it 4-3.
 
Matthew Miura added a key insurance run in the eighth, coming through with a two-out RBI double to put Hawai'i in front by two.
 
The Rainbow Warriors (23-8) got the scoring started with two runs in the third. Kamana Nahaku drove in the first run of the frame with an RBI single before a Jordan Donahue run-scoring groundout made it 2-0.
 
The Broncos responded in the bottom half, taking advantage of back-to-back Hawai'i walks to start the inning before a Dylan Joyce three-run homer gave them a 3-2 lead.
 
UH evened things up at three in the fifth when Miura and Zeigler-Namoa each singled to lead off the inning before Nahaku picked up his second RBI of the day with an RBI groundout.  
 
The Rainbow Warrior pitching staff again did the job in the late innings, as the team improved to 18-0 when leading after seven innings. UH also scored two runs in the final three innings, meaning that it now owns a 73-41 advantage in the seventh through ninth innings this season.
 
The Rainbow Warriors open a key conference series against Big West-leader Cal Poly (23-8, 12-0 Big West) Friday at 3 p.m. HT.
 
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