Baseball ‘Bows fall to New Mexico in home opener
Michael Eaton homered and scored three runs and Carl Stajduhar doubled twice and drove in New Mexico’s first run in a season-opening 6-4 victory over Hawaii on Friday night at Les Murakami Stadium.
UH starter Brendan Hornung (0-2) allowed three runs on five hits in 4 2/3 innings and took the loss for the Rainbow Warriors (1-2), who walked nine batters.
Jacob Sheldon-Collins doubled home UH’s first two runs in the fifth inning with two outs and was 2-for-5 with three RBIs.
Matt LoCoco added an RBI triple in the ninth inning, scoring Alan Baldwin, who was 2-for-4 with a double.
Hawaii brought the tying run to the plate in the ninth after scoring twice. Alex Fitchett drew his third walk to put the tying run on first, but Victor Sanchez struck out Marcus Doi to end it.
Hawaii lost its home opener for the fourth straight season and suffered its seventh defeat in 41 games all-time at home against the Lobos.
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Senior Kyle Von Ruden will start Game 2 for the ’Bows on Saturday night at 6:35 p.m.
Attendance for UH’s home opener was 2,446.
7 responses to “Baseball ‘Bows fall to New Mexico in home opener”
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same as it ever was; lose- bs from trepasso, lose-bs from trepasso. this guy is like the teflon don, keep losing but still coaching
i agree…..both softball and baseball programs have take 10 steps backwards and both coaches have been here too long and its time for them to move on…….Trap and Coolen….aloha….
Men on first and third with no outs. a ball hit back to the pitcher he turns and fires high to the second basemen who makes a great play to get his foot on the bag and finish the double play. and the third base coach doesn’t send him? I waited for the score to change. Surely it was 3-3. Nope. He held him at third. Yikes! First game of the season. Yikes!
Sounds like readers are down on coach Trap…
Why is he still here?
WOW…..TIME FOR A HARD LOOK AT COACHING APPROACH TO RECRUITING, AND MAKING SURE FUNDAMENTALS ARE SOLID…ESPECIALLY KEY BATTING OPPORTUNITIES TO PUT PRESSURE ON OPPONENT AND SCORE! LET’S REVISIT RESULTS AFTER 12 GAMES…IF TEAM NOT AT .500 AVERAGE…THEN NEED TO START TO EVALUATE FOR NEW COACHING….ETC…SORRY TO BE SO HARSH BUT THE COMPETITION IS NOT THAT TERRIFIC AND WE ARE AT HOME…
Trap been here 15 years and you still need time to evaluate? Are u related to Ben Jay the clueless one? Matlin needs to announce that Trap’s contract will not be renewed (what 2 more years left?) or have Trap announce that he will be retiring after the current contract is up.