The University of Hawaii baseball team flew across six time zones to take on Ohio State Thursday. It’s just the nature of road games Hawaii athletics, and it has to sting when things don’t come out on the sunny side like today.
The Rainbow Warriors got out quick with two runs in the top half of the first inning, but the Buckeyes struck back quickly in the home half when Matt Carpenter doubled to bring home Dominic Canzone, followed by another double by Brady Cherry and a sacrifice fly by Dillon Dingler to make the score 3-2 after one.
Hawaii tied things up with an RBI single in the top of the third before Nick Erwin got his first collegiate hit, bringing the go-ahead run home with an RBI single to give Ohio State the lead again at 4-3 in the bottom of the fourth inning.
The Buckeyes added two more runs in the bottom of the eighth and pretty much shut the door from there to win it 6-4. Starting pitcher Garrett Burhenn got the win with a quality start, going seven innings of eight hit, three-run ball. Andrew Magno got the save.
Ohio State improved its record to 11-10 with the victory and will play the Rainbow Warriors again tomorrow at 5:05 PM.
