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Hawai'i Hilo Vulcans Athletics

HAWAI'I HILO VULCANS ATHLETICS
Alvarado pitch
1
Chaminade CUH-SB 2-1
2
Winner Hawaii Hilo UHH-SB 2-0
Chaminade CUH-SB
2-1
1
Final
2
Hawaii Hilo UHH-SB
2-0
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 R H E
Chaminade CUH-SB 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 7 1
Hawaii Hilo UHH-SB 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 2 11 2

W: Bhatt, Sara (1-0) L: Stockslager, Madelyn (2-1)

0
Chaminade CUH-SB 2-2
7
Winner Hawaii Hilo UHH-SB 3-0
Chaminade CUH-SB
2-2
0
Final
7
Hawaii Hilo UHH-SB
3-0
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 R H E
Chaminade CUH-SB 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 2
Hawaii Hilo UHH-SB 4 1 2 0 0 7 8 0

W: Bhatt, Sara (2-0) L: Genera, Taylor (0-1)

Game Recap: Softball |

Vulcan Pitching Leads to Sweep

(photo by Steven Kinder)

KAILUA-KONA, Hawaii--Vulcan pitching didn't allow an earned run all day helping to lead the Vulcans to 2-1 and 7-0 victories in softball action on Saturday afternoon at Kealakehe High School. 

UH Hilo won the opener in ten innings and took the nightcap in five innings (called because of darkness). The Vulcans are now 3-0 on the season and 3-0 in the Pacific West Conference. Chaminade fell to 2-2 on the year and 2-2 in conference play.

The two teams will play again on Sunday, with the twinbill set to start at 11 am on the Kona side of the Big Island.

Valerie Alvarado allowed just one unearned run in the the first game through nine innings, but reliever Sara Bhatt earned the win coming on to throw in the tenth inning. Bhatt, a 5-10 freshman, threw a shutout in the nightcap to begin her collegiate career at 2-0. 

Markie Okamoto slapped the game-winner down the leftfield line in the bottom of the tenth in the opener, chasing home Vevesi Liilii who began the inning at second base in the internaitional tiebreaker format. That made Madelyn Stockslager the hard-luck loser, despite giving up just one earned run in 10 innings.

Earlier, Chaminade has scored an unearned run in the first inning that held up until sixth inning. In that inning, Liilii led off with a double, moved to third on Nikki Zielinski's single and then came home on Chloe Domingo's base hit. But Stockslager stayed strong after that, until the tenth with international rule help and Okamoto's hit. Meanwhile Alvardo gave up seven hits in nine innings and worked around an uncharacteristic six walks. Bhatt pitched a near-perfect tenth, walking one but striking out two.

The Vulcans had 11 hits in the first game, two each by Liilii, Domingo, Darian Obara and Okamoto.

In the second game, Bhatt continued her impressive debut. She fanned two batters in the first inning and her team then spotted her four runs in the bottom half. Skylar Thomas and Domingo had RBI-singles and Kamalei Labasan hit a two-run single to put the Vulcans up 4-0.

UHH would add another run in the second and two more in the third to make it 7-0. Bhatt's good work and approaching darkness would take over from there. She pitched her first shutout, allowing just three hits, two walks and the southern Californian had five K's. The Vulcans had eight hits in the five-inning game, three by Kiarra Lincoln and two by Okamoto. Haley Hayakawa had two of CUH's five hits in the second game.

No fans are allowed at Kealakehe High School, but Sunday's game will be video streamed at hiloathletics.com. 

GAME ONE VIDEO REPLAY https://www.crowdcast.io/e/softballmarch20at12 

GAME TWO VIDEO REPLAY 
https://www.crowdcast.io/e/softballmarch20at2 

 
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