HONOLULU – Despite a dominant 12-strikeout performance from Friday night starter Isaiah Magdaleno, the Hawai'i baseball team was shut out by Cal State Fullerton, 2-0, in the series opener on Friday night at Les Murakami Stadium.
 
Cal State Fullerton starter Mikiah Negrete stifled the Rainbow Warrior offense, tossing a complete-game, two-hit shutout. The left-hander struck out 11 batters without issuing a single walk on 111 pitches. Negrete retired the final 13 batters he faced to secure the win, and did not allow a UH player to advance beyond first base all night.
 
Magdaleno (3-2) was the tough-luck loser, taking the defeat despite matching his career-high with 12 strikeouts over 7.1 innings of work. The junior struck out six batters in a row at one point in the middle innings, and yielded just two runs on five hits and one walk, lowering his ERA to 2.76 and running his season strikeout total to 56.
 
The Titans (12-13, 6-4 Big West) scored single runs in the second and eighth innings. Nick Miller laced a one-out double to left field and subsequently scored on an RBI double down the right-field line by Brady Dobson to make it 1-0. Cameron Kim then delivered an RBI double to left field in the eighth, scoring Niko Lombardi and extending the lead to 2-0.
 
The two teams will play game two Saturday with first pitch set for 6:35 p.m.