{"id":230901,"date":"2026-03-22T05:02:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T05:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/230901\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T05:02:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T05:02:14","slug":"hawaii-rallies-to-beat-long-beach-state-3-2-in-softball-series-finale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/230901\/","title":{"rendered":"Hawai\u2019i Rallies To Beat Long Beach State 3-2 In Softball Series Finale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONG BEACH, Calif. \u2013 Two early runs and a strong start from junior <a href=\"https:\/\/longbeachstate.com\/sports\/softball\/roster\/kate-barnett\/8588\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"8588\" target=\"_blank\">Kate Barnett<\/a> spotted Long Beach State an early lead, but a two-run rally in the sixth inning from Hawai&#8217;i allowed the Rainbow Wahine to spoil the party with a 3-2 victory.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nBarnett set Hawai&#8217;i (13-14, 5-4 Big West) down in order to begin the game, and then Long Beach State (18-13, 6-3 Big West) went to work manufacturing a run in the bottom half. <a href=\"https:\/\/longbeachstate.com\/sports\/softball\/roster\/lina-apodaca\/8587\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"8587\" target=\"_blank\">Lina Apodaca<\/a> was hit on the first pitch of the inning, and then after a wild pitch, was pushed to third with a sacrifice bunt and then scored on a sacrifice fly from <a href=\"https:\/\/longbeachstate.com\/sports\/softball\/roster\/priscilla-iniguez\/8594\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"8594\" target=\"_blank\">Priscilla Iniguez<\/a> to give the Beach an early lead.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nHawai&#8217;i answered back with a solo home run from Millie Fidge, but that would be the only hit Barnett would allow in four innings of work. The Beach reclaimed the lead in the second. <a href=\"https:\/\/longbeachstate.com\/sports\/softball\/roster\/brooklyn-lee\/8596\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"8596\" target=\"_blank\">Brooklyn Lee<\/a> hit a double to start the inning, and after another sac bunt, an RBI single from <a href=\"https:\/\/longbeachstate.com\/sports\/softball\/roster\/audree-mendoza\/9500\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"9500\" target=\"_blank\">Audree Mendoza<\/a> put Long Beach State back in front 2-1.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe Rainbow Wahine turned to Taryn Irimata, game two&#8217;s winner at that point, and Irimata again stilled the LBSU bats, allowing just one hit the rest of the way, and UH finally pushed back in front in the sixth. A leadoff walk led to trouble, with Carys Murakami picking up second on a wild pitch. A hit to left looked to be leading to a play at the plate, but a misplay by <a href=\"https:\/\/longbeachstate.com\/sports\/softball\/roster\/emily-dowden\/8590\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"8590\" target=\"_blank\">Emily Dowden<\/a> instead led to Murakami scoring and Maycen Gibbs ending up on third. That would be a key play as a sacrifice fly scored Gibbs, which would be the winning run as LBSU got out of the inning.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nIrimata finished off the game with six straight outs, not giving Long Beach State the opportunity to rally for another win like they did in the opening game on Friday.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nLong Beach State continues Big West play on the road, facing UC San Diego in a three-game series on Friday, March 27 and Saturday, March 28.<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONG BEACH, Calif. \u2013 Two early runs and a strong start from junior Kate Barnett spotted Long Beach&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":230902,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-230901","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\/230901","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=230901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}