The Hawaii baseball team\u2019s series against Big West leader UC San Diego swung on the front end.<\/p>\n
The Tritons surged to defeat the Rainbow Warriors, 10-9, with a three-run rally in the bottom of the eighth in Game 1 of the series on Thursday in La Jolla, Calif. The teams would split the next two lopsided contests on Friday (a 6-3 win) and Saturday (an 8-0 loss) in a series bumped up by a day because of the Easter holiday.<\/p>\n
UH (16-13, 6-9 Big West) dropped to eighth place at the midpoint of the 30-game conference schedule and heightened the degree of difficulty to attain its goal of a championship in its final season in the league. The Rainbow Warriors are two games behind Cal State Northridge for fifth place and the last berth to the Big West championships at Irvine, Calif.<\/p>\n
After Isaiah Magdaleno sparkled on Friday, UCSD (14-14, 10-2) hit three home runs off UH\u2019s second ace Hekili Robello in the rubber match and four-hit the \u2018Bows behind 5 2\/3 innings of long relief by Austin Bowker. It was the third time UH was shut out this season.<\/p>\n
Robello (5-2) managed to go six innings but saw his earned-run average spike from 2.48 to 3.33 with six runs absorbed.<\/p>\n
In Thursday\u2019s bullpen game, Liam O\u2019Brien, Saul Soto and John Alkire yielded three runs apiece, with Alkire giving up two decisive doubles to Michael Crossland and J.C. Allen in the bottom of the eighth after UH had taken a 9-7 lead in the top half of the frame.<\/p>\n
The \u2018Bows return home to face UC Irvine (14-17, 6-6) in a three-game set at Les Murakami Stadium starting Friday. The Anteaters swept UC Davis this weekend.<\/p>\n
Brian McInnis<\/a>\u00a0covers the state\u2019s sports scene for Spectrum News Hawaii.\u00a0He can be reached at\u00a0brian.mcinnis@<\/a>charter.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Hawaii baseball team\u2019s series against Big West leader UC San Diego swung on the front end. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":253096,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[19375,6632,6631,19376,1815,2289,74,76,75,127,136],"class_list":{"0":"post-253095","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-app-college-sports","9":"tag-app-sports","10":"tag-app-top-stories","11":"tag-brian-mcinnis","12":"tag-college","13":"tag-hawaii","14":"tag-san-diego","15":"tag-san-diego-headlines","16":"tag-san-diego-news","17":"tag-sports","18":"tag-top-stories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253095","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=253095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}