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JAMM AQUINO / APRIL 6 Hawaii second baseman Shunsuke Sakaino, shown here hitting against the Long Beach State Dirtbags on Sunday in Honolulu, hit a two-run homer in the 10th inning in Hawaii’s 4-2 victory over Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo, Calif., today.
JAMM AQUINO / APRIL 6 Hawaii second baseman Shunsuke Sakaino, shown here hitting against the Long Beach State Dirtbags on Sunday in Honolulu, hit a two-run homer in the 10th inning in Hawaii’s 4-2 victory over Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo, Calif., today.
Shunsuke Sakaino smacked a no-doubt, two-run homer to right in the 10th inning to lead the Hawaii baseball team to Friday’s 4-2 victory over Cal Poly at Baggett Stadium in San Luis Obispo, Calif.
By winning the opener of the three-game road series, the Rainbow Warriors improved to 24-8 overall and 10-6 in the Big West. The Mustangs, who dropped to 23-9 and 12-1, lost for the first time in 10 games and fell into a first-place tie with UC Irvine. Saturday’s middle game of the series starts at noon.
“It was more of a road win in a very hostile environment, ” UH coach Rich Hill said. “These guys draw very well. To win an extra-inning game on the road against a first-place team says a lot about the resiliency of this team and the character of this team.”
Cam Hoiland and Alejandro Garza hit solo home runs to help the Mustangs take a 2-1 lead into the ninth. But with’Bows on second and third, Itsuki Takemoto, who was UH’s starting pitcher, hit a sacrifice fly to left to bring home Ben Zeigler-Namoa with the tying run.
With two outs in the 10th, pinch hitter Jack Salmon fell behind 0-2 in the count against Tanner Sagouspe, the Mustangs’ closer. But Salmon battled his way to drawing a walk. Jarret “JJ ” Nielsen pinch-ran for Salmon. Sakaino then pulled a 1-0 pitch from Sagouspe well over the fence in right field to give the’Bows a 4-2 lead.
“He’s just a baseball player, ” Hill said of Sakaino, who also caught a shoestring-high liner to start a double play in the first and backhanded a short-hopped ball in the ninth. “It was great to see. He works so hard. He’s such a good kid. To be able to (hit that homer ) was awesome.”
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Isaiah Magdaleno, who worked out of a bases-loaded jam in the ninth, got the final three outs to earn the victory.
Cory Ronan, who replaced Takemoto as a pitcher in the sixth, did not allow a hit or run in 2 2 /3 innings as the bridge to Magdaleno.
The’Bows are 5-1 in extra-inning games this season.
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JAMM AQUINO / APRIL 6 Hawaii second baseman Shunsuke Sakaino, shown here hitting against the Long Beach State Dirtbags on Sunday in Honolulu, hit a two-run homer in the 10th inning in Hawaii’s 4-2 victory over Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo, Calif., today.
Shunsuke Sakaino smacked a no-doubt, two-run homer to right in the 10th inning to lead the Hawaii baseball team to Friday’s 4-2 victory over Cal Poly at Baggett Stadium in San Luis Obispo, Calif.
By winning the opener of the three-game road series, the Rainbow Warriors improved to 24-8 overall and 10-6 in the Big West. The Mustangs, who dropped to 23-9 and 12-1, lost for the first time in 10 games and fell into a first-place tie with UC Irvine. Saturday’s middle game of the series starts at noon.
“It was more of a road win in a very hostile environment, ” UH coach Rich Hill said. “These guys draw very well. To win an extra-inning game on the road against a first-place team says a lot about the resiliency of this team and the character of this team.”
Cam Hoiland and Alejandro Garza hit solo home runs to help the Mustangs take a 2-1 lead into the ninth. But with’Bows on second and third, Itsuki Takemoto, who was UH’s starting pitcher, hit a sacrifice fly to left to bring home Ben Zeigler-Namoa with the tying run.
With two outs in the 10th, pinch hitter Jack Salmon fell behind 0-2 in the count against Tanner Sagouspe, the Mustangs’ closer. But Salmon battled his way to drawing a walk. Jarret “JJ ” Nielsen pinch-ran for Salmon. Sakaino then pulled a 1-0 pitch from Sagouspe well over the fence in right field to give the’Bows a 4-2 lead.
“He’s just a baseball player, ” Hill said of Sakaino, who also caught a shoestring-high liner to start a double play in the first and backhanded a short-hopped ball in the ninth. “It was great to see. He works so hard. He’s such a good kid. To be able to (hit that homer ) was awesome.”
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Isaiah Magdaleno, who worked out of a bases-loaded jam in the ninth, got the final three outs to earn the victory.
Cory Ronan, who replaced Takemoto as a pitcher in the sixth, did not allow a hit or run in 2 2 /3 innings as the bridge to Magdaleno.
The’Bows are 5-1 in extra-inning games this season.
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