Long Beach State pitcher Jason Gerfers allowed just four singles and two walks in a complete game 2-1 victory today, dealing visiting Hawaii its fifth loss in six Big West games.<\/p>\n
The Rainbows are 10-9 overall after their second one-run loss in a row at Blair Field in Long Beach, Calif.<\/p>\n
LBSU improved to 2-4 in conference and 6-13 overall.<\/p>\n
Dylan Lina homered in his first plate appearance for the second game in a row to help the Dirtbags to an early lead.<\/p>\n
Hawaii tied it in the fourth on Elijah Ickes\u2019 RBI single.<\/p>\n
Ben Zeigler-Namoa had two of UH\u2019s four hits, including a single in the ninth.<\/p>\n
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UH starter Liam O\u2019Brien allowed no hits other than Lina\u2019s homer in four-plus innings, but walked five and hit a batter and was charged with both LBSU runs, and the loss.<\/p>\n
Hawaii moves on to a three-game set at UC Santa Barbara starting Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Long Beach State pitcher Jason Gerfers allowed just four singles and two walks in a complete game 2-1…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":221401,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-221400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}