The Hawaii baseball team pounded out a 14-5 rout of Cal State Bakersfield at Hardt Field on the CSUB campus.<\/p>\n
The Rainbow Warriors produced 14 of their season0-high 17 hits in the fifth and seventh innings.<\/p>\n
The \u2019Bows improved to 20-15 overall and 10-11 in the Big West to move ahead of UC Irvine and into sixth place. The top five teams qualify for the Big West Tournament and a chance to earn the accompanying berth in the NCAA Regionals.<\/p>\n
After 14 relief appearances, John Alkire II made his first UH start. He exited leading 5-0 with one out in the fifth, having gone through the CSUB order twice. Grant Garman surrendered a sacrifice fly and allowed a second CSUB runner when Elgin Bennett was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded. Tsubasa Tomii, the third of five UH pitchers, went 3 1\/3 scoreless innings to earn the victory.<\/p>\n
The \u2019Bows broke away with five runs in the fifth and another nine in the seventh. Ben Zeigler-Namoa and Tate Shimao each drove in four runs and Josh Martin, who transferred from Santa Rosa College in August, smacked a three-run homer, his first as a \u2019Bow.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve had a little bit of a struggle scoring runs,\u201d UH coach Rich Hill said. \u201cThat was a great feeling. Just like the old days. It feels great, especially the character of this group. After getting gut-punched on Friday night (in a 2-0 loss), as a bad a loss as you can experience, to respond like this, very proud of the group.\u201d<\/p>\n
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UH continues the seven-game road trip with a Tuesday\u2019s meeting against No. 1-ranked UCLA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Hawaii baseball team pounded out a 14-5 rout of Cal State Bakersfield at Hardt Field on the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":169037,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-276592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276592","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=276592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}