{"id":172250,"date":"2023-02-03T11:34:40","date_gmt":"2023-02-03T21:34:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=172250"},"modified":"2023-02-03T11:37:53","modified_gmt":"2023-02-03T21:37:53","slug":"vulcans-open-season-with-shutout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2023\/02\/03\/vulcans-open-season-with-shutout\/","title":{"rendered":"Vulcans open season with 4-0 shutout of No. 15 Augustana"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>

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The University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at Hilo baseball team<\/a> shut out 15th-ranked Augustana University, 4-0, February 1 to open the 2023 season with a win at Francis Wong Stadium in non-conference play.<\/p>\n

Five Vulcans pitchers—Christian DeJesus<\/strong>, Aaron Davies<\/strong>, Orlando Leon Jr.<\/strong>, Christian Wood<\/strong> and Jake Liberta<\/strong>—played their parts in earning the victory by combining to allow just four hits and zero runs to go along with 11 strikeouts.<\/p>\n

The Vikings pitchers gave up just three free bases to Vulcans batters as Yamauchi got a lead-off walk in the bottom of the first inning.<\/p>\n

At his next at-bat in the third inning, Yamauchi went over the left-field fence for a solo home run and the first of the fifth-year senior’s career.<\/p>\n

In the fifth inning, Yamauchi recorded a hit, then, after stealing second and getting a good jump on a subsequent pitch, came home when freshman catcher Mason Cook<\/strong> drilled a liner to center field for the RBI<\/abbr>.<\/p>\n

After a lead-off single by Blake Tweedt<\/strong> in the sixth inning, Joshua Fuentes<\/strong> added the Vulcans’ fourth and final run with a two-out RBI<\/abbr> ground-single up the middle.<\/p>\n

Liberta came on the mound in the top of the ninth with one out in relief of Wood’s scoreless 1-1\/3 innings of work. After the senior loaded the bases with two walks and a single given up, Liberta struck out the side to end the game and take the victory for the Vulcans.<\/p>\n

For more on the game to go to hiloathletics.com.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The UH<\/abbr> Hilo baseball team shut out 15th-ranked Augustana University, 4-0 on February 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1362],"tags":[58,1491,14,151],"class_list":["post-172250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-baseball","tag-uh-hilo","tag-hilo-athletics","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t