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Hawaii baseball evens series with CSUN behind Pontes’ big performance
Behind a stellar begin from Kamehameha alum Li’i Pontes, the College of Hawaii baseball workforce evened its sequence towards Cal State Northridge with a 3-0 victory on Friday night time at Les Murakami Stadium.
After the Matadors routed Hawaii 14-2 on Thursday night time, the ‘Bows turned the tide of the sequence behind Pontes’ effort, which included 6.2 shutout innings through which he scattered six hits and a stroll with eight strikeouts over the course of 100 pitches.
Hawaii improves to 23-21 general and 14-9 in Massive West Convention play, whereas CSUN drops to 27-20 general and 15-11 in convention.
Kyson Donahue received the scoring began for Hawaii with a two-RBI single within the backside of the fifth, whereas Jacob Igawa’s solo residence run prolonged the lead within the sixth to finish UH’s scoring.
Lucas Braun received the loss for CSUN after giving up the primary runs of the sport within the fifth inning. In complete, he struck out 9 in 5.1 innings whereas giving up eight hits and two walks in 109 pitches.
Tai Atkins received the maintain for UH after hanging out the one batter he confronted within the prime of the seventh. From there, Buddie Pindel labored by means of 44 pitches regardless of recording simply three outs earlier than yielding to Dalton Renne, who preserved the shutout and notched the save.
Hawaii and CSUN won’t play on Saturday as a result of a number of UH-Manoa graduation ceremonies going down on campus. Greater than half a dozen UH baseball gamers will stroll the stage and graduate.
The sequence finale between the ‘Bows and Matadors is ready for Sunday at 1:05 p.m.