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JOEY R AMIREZ Associate Sports Editor After dropping the final two games of its series against St. Mary’s, the University of Hawai‘i baseball team has made it clear that it is settling for nothing but additions to its win column. “Moral victories are for losers,” said head coach Mike Trapasso. “It [Sunday’s doubleheader] was a long day of bad baseball. We gift wrapped two wins for them. In that first game, I thought that we just mailed in our first six innings offensively, and that’s where we lost the game.” It was a four-run tenth inning in game one and a five-run fi fth inning in game two of Sunday’s doubleheader that led to Hawai‘i splitting the series with the Gaels (17-17, 2-7 West Coast Conference). “We were playing good coming in,” said senior pitcher Matt Sisto. “We played good the fi rst
two nights, and I felt we played good today. We just had a couple of bad innings, and it cost us.”
BAC K T O T H E WAC The Rainbows (21-15, 2-1 Western Athletic Conference) now return to conference play with a three-game road series against San Jose State (17-14, 3-0 WAC) beginning this Friday. “It’s going to be an exciting series,” said freshman left fielder Kaeo Aliviado. “[We are] just coming in and playing at their house and making things happen.” The Rainbows have only played one road series so far, getting swept by Gonzaga in four games. “We need to get on the road,” Trapasso said. “It brings you closer. We’ve got to get over the bad mojo from our fi rst road trip.” While UH is hoping to bounce back from its two-game slide, the
Spartans have won six of their last seven games – including a sweep over Fresno State last weekend. “That’s a great opportunity for us,” Trapasso said. “It’s just going to be a huge challenge because they’re obviously riding high, and we’re going to have to go out and play better than we did [Sunday].”
ʼB OW S O N T H E ROA D Unlike their first trip to the mainland, the Rainbows will be off-island for a significant amount of time. Following its series with the Spartans, Hawai‘i will head to Louisiana to play a game against Grambling State (15-18, 9-9 Southwestern Athletic Conference), followed by another three-game series against Louisiana Tech (17-19, 1-5 WAC). “It’s a long one,” said Sisto. “But it’s good [to] get out and play and experience other places and play in other parks.”
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Freshman designated hitter Trevor Podratz and the Rainbows look to bounce back against San Jose State this weekend.
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