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Four Rutgers relievers combined to hold Hawaii scoreless over the final eight innings of a 6-2 victory to complete a doubleheader sweep today at Les Murakami Stadium.
After the Scarlet Knights (12-2) led 3-2 after the first inning, Ben Gorski (2-0) struck out five in four shutout innings to earn the win and Nate McLain, Parker Scott and Dale Stanavich finished out the win with a combined four scoreless innings without allowing a hit.
Danny DiGeorgio and Ryan Lasko had run-scoring hits and Rutgers scored its final two runs of the first inning on two Hawaii errors. UH (5-10) committed four errors in the game and allowed three unearned runs.
Rutgers scored a combined nine runs in the first inning of both games today after putting up six runs in a 13-1 victory in the opener.
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Josh Kuroda-Grauer went 3-for-4 with two runs scored and Nick Cimillo and Chris Brito homered for the Scarlet Knights.
Rutgers sent 11 batters to the plate and had seven hits in the first inning off UH starter Cade Halemanu, who lasted 2 1/3 innings.
Halemanu (0-2) allowed eight hits and eight runs with three walks and a hit batter.
Senior right-hander Jared Kollar went the distance to improve to 3-0, allowing just three hits to pick up the win.
Jacob Igawa hit an opposite-field leadoff homer in the bottom of the third inning to score the only run for UH (5-10), which was held to nine hits in 16 innings on the day. Igawa had three of them.
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