LIHU‘E — The University of Hawai‘i baseball team defeated Loyola Marymount Saturday, 9-7. The Rainbows improve to 5-5 on the season while LMU fell to 8-4. Blair Walters (3-1) captured his team-high third win for UH, pitching 2.2 innings allowing
LIHU‘E — The University of Hawai‘i baseball team defeated Loyola Marymount Saturday, 9-7. The Rainbows improve to 5-5 on the season while LMU fell to 8-4.
Blair Walters (3-1) captured his team-high third win for UH, pitching 2.2 innings allowing no runs on just one hit, reads a release from the UH athletic department.
Ryan Hawthorne (0-1) was tagged with the loss in a relief effort.
Zack Swasey posted three hits, one run, and one RBI to lead the ‘Bows, who have taken two of the first three games of the four-game road series.
Matt Harrison was 2 for 4 with three runs and one RBI, while Jeffrey Van Doornum added two hits, one run, and one RBI.
Joe Vierra and Matt Koch led the Lions, each recording two hits, one run, and one RBI.
LMU opened up a 4-0 lead after plating three fourth-inning runs. Bret Dahlson (1 for 3, three RBIs) delivered a two-RBI double to help the Lions to the big inning.
UH then caught up all at once with four runs in the fifth inning. Van Doornum and Michael Blake each recorded RBIs in the inning to tie the game at 4-4.
Hawai’i would find themselves trailing once again, as a Vierra lead-off home run in the sixth inning put the Lions ahead 7-6.
But in the eighth inning, Van Doornum and Blake would again record RBIs to guide the ‘Bows to a 9-7 lead and the win.
UH and LMU play the final game of their series today at 1 p.m. PT (11 a.m. HT).
