UH baseball adds 12 to 2017 roster

University of Hawaii baseball coach Mike Trapasso announced the addition of 12 players to the 2017 roster on Friday. The Rainbow Warriors will add seven pitchers, three infielders, an outfielder and a utility player.

Nine of the 12 players will enter from junior college — right-handed pitchers Colin Ashworth (Orange Coast College), Brody Hagel-Pitt (Iowa Western Community College), Jackson Rees (Saddleback College), Matt Richardson (Cosumnes River College), Neil Uskali (Cuesta College), left-handed pitcher Matt Estes (Santa Rosa Junior College) and Bellevue College teammates Dominic DeMiero (LHP) and Jordan LaFave (SS). Maryknoll graduate Jedd Andrade will also join UH as an outfielder from Fort Scott Community College.

The three remaining student-athletes will join the Rainbow Warriors out of high school. Kamehameha-Hawaii graduate and Star-Advertiser first-team All-State selection Daylen Calicdan will join the ‘Bows, in addition to Mira Costa’s Zach Chan and Huntington Beach’s Logan Pouelsen, who initially signed with UCLA. Pouelsen was also named a 2015 Perfect Game USA First Team Underclass All-American.

Go Nuts falls in United States final

The Go Nuts baseball team fell 10-2 to the Pacific Northwest (Kennewick, Wash.) team in the United States Championship of the 12U Cal Ripken World Series in Aberdeen, Md., on Friday. It was the first time the Oahu team allowed runs in consecutive innings during the tournament.

Kaimuki’s Peyton Hino led the Pacific Southwest team with a two-run homer. Go Nuts finished with a 4-1 record in the 18-team tournament.