Summer fun has been scrapped for Hawaii baseball player Dallas Duarte.

Duarte, who has endured an ankle ailment most of this season, is set to play in the Rainbow Warriors’ final six games of the regular season, and then go on medical hiatus until fall training.

“We canceled his summer,” head coach Mike Trapasso said. “He’s not going to be able to play summer ball. We’ll shut him down. The doctors say he really needs to be shut down for a good eight weeks or more. We’ll shut him down with no activity and let that thing heal. That’s more important than letting him play this summer.”

Duarte said: “That’s honestly the worst news a baseball player can hear. But I have to be 100 percent before fall. There are things I need to do. I have to get back bigger and stronger.”

Duarte suffered a sprained left ankle against Longwood on March 3. He missed four games before being medically cleared to resume playing.

“He’s honestly been playing since Longwood on one leg,” Trapasso said. “He seems to tweak it again every couple weeks. The kid’s a warrior. He’s battled through it the whole year. He hasn’t complained. But you can see he’s nowhere close to 100 percent.”

Duarte has rejected options to sit.

“I want to play,” he said. “I’ll do anything to get on the field. I’ll do anything to help the team.”

For Duarte, that means playing multiple positions.

The 2018 Kamehameha-Hawaii graduate was signed as a catcher. This season, he has been behind the plate, at second and at third. He said he had not played third until the recent road trip.

“That was interesting,” Duarte said of his debut at the hot corner. “That’s why you love the game. You come up here and expect to play some place new every day.”

Shortstop Maaki Yamazaki’s health will determine Duarte’s position for Friday’s opener of a three-game series against sixth-ranked UC Santa Barbara at Les Murakami Stadium. Yamazaki was used at second and designated hitter after suffering pain in his right (throwing) shoulder two weeks ago. If Yamazaki can play short, then Duarte will likely play second. If Yamazaki still has discomfort throwing, third baseman Ethan Lopez will move to short and Duarte will play third. Duarte also is available to catch.

“It’s getting better,” Yamazaki said. “It’s not an ideal thing to happen now. I have to do what I have to do and grind through.”

The ’Bows do not practice today.

“We’ll wait and see how he is come Thursday and Friday,” Trapasso said of Yamazaki.

If Yamazaki is not able to field, it would leave UH with the dilemma of using Yamazaki or Brennen Hancock at designated hitter.

“It takes one of your better hitters out of the lineup, whether it’s (Yamazaki) or Hancock,” Trapasso said. “There’s no question it hurts us offensively. It hurts us defensively because it puts several players out of position.”