ADVERTISING Home games in caps; all times HST UH-Hilo BASKETBALL MEN Tuesday UHH 94, Holy Names 92 Thursday Academy of Art 74, UHH 67 Saturday at Dominican, 5:30 p.m. WOMEN Tuesday Holy Names 53, UHH 48 Thursday Academy of Art
Home games in caps; all times HST
UH-Hilo
BASKETBALL
MEN
Tuesday
UHH 94, Holy Names 92
Thursday
Academy of Art 74, UHH 67
Saturday
at Dominican, 5:30 p.m.
WOMEN
Tuesday
Holy Names 53, UHH 48
Thursday
Academy of Art 71, UHH 62
Saturday
at Dominican, 3:30 p.m.
BASEBALL
Tuesday
Chuo University 7, UHH 3
Wednesday
UHH 2, Chuo 1
Saturday
vs. HAWAII PACIFIC, 3 p.m. DH at Wong
Sunday
vs. HAWAII PACIFIC, noon DH at Wong
SOFTBALL
March 3
vs. CONCORDIA, noon doubleheader
March 4
vs. CONCORDIA, noon doubleheader
GOLF
Men
March 13-14
Argonaut Intercollegiate, Belmont, Calif.
Women
March 14-15
Dr. Donnis Thompson Intercollegiate, Kaneohe, Oahu
TENNIS
Men
March 8
vs. Hastings, at Honolulu
Women
vs. Dominican, at Honolulu
UH-Manoa
BASKETBALL
Men
Saturday
vs. CAL STATE FULLERTON, 7 p.m.
TV: OCSports
The skinny: The Rainbow Warriors are in sixth place in the Big West, but are just 1.5 games out of second. UH is coming off a road split last weekend that included an 82-61 rout of Cal Poly on Saturday.
Women
Thursday
UH 73, UC Irvine 60
The skinny: Leah Salanoa made a career-high 6 3-pointers en route to a career-high 20 points and the visiting Rainbow Wahine (9-17, 5-9 Big West) ended a six-game losing streak.
Saturday
at Cal State Fullerton, 4 p.m.
BASEBALL
Thursday
San Francisco 3, UH 1, 11 innings
The skinny: Brendan Hornung pitched eight scoreless innings in Honolulu, but Aaron Ping hit an RBI single in the top of the 11th and came around to score to lift the Dons (4-1).
UH (1-3) was down to its last out in the 10th when Jonathan Weeks walked and scored on Josh Rojas’ RBI double to tie it 1-1.
Friday
vs. SAN FRANCISCO, 6:30 p.m.
Saturday
vs. SAN FRANCISCO, 1 p.m.
Sunday
vs. SAN FRANCISCO, 1 p.m.
MENS VOLLEYBALL
Friday
vs. PEPPERDINE, 7 p.m.
TV: OCSports
Sunday
vs. PEPPERDINE, 7 p.m.
The skinny: The matches feature two of the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation’s top defensive teams. Winners of nine in a row, No. 4 UH (14-2, 5-2 MPSF) ranks first in the league in blocking (2.68 per set) and digs (8.91) while the Waves are second (2.49) and third (8.88), respectively. The Warriors also lead the league with a .197 opponent hitting percentage. …
The Waves (6-5, 4-4) are coming off a five-set loss to USC in Los Angeles. Outside hitter David Wieczorek leads the Waves attack with a 3.80 kill average, hitting .360. …
Sophomore Stijn van Tilburg has been UH’s most consistent attacker, cracking double-digits in kills in 11 of 15 matches played, and he
leads the team with a 4.23 kill average, which ranks fifth in the MPSF and sixth nationally. His .372 hitting percentage leads all UH hitters.
Mountain Pacific Sports
Federation standings
Conf. Overall
Long Beach St. 9-1 13-2
BYU 6-1 12-2
Hawaii 5-2 14-2
Stanford 6-3 9-5
UC Irvine 6-4 9-5
UCLA 7-5 10-6
Pepperdine 4-4 6-5
CSUN 3-5 10-5
USC 4-7 5-9
UCSB 3-8 6-8
UC San Diego 2-7 5-9
Cal Baptist 1-9 3-11
SOFTBALL
Bank if Hawaii Invitational
Thursday
Oregon 8, UH 2
The skinny: Maggie Balint struck out 10 in a complete game in Honolulu, and the No. 5 Ducks (10-0) evened the Wahine’s record at 4-4. …
Brittany Hitchcock (3-2) suffered the loss dropping her record to 3-2. She threw four innings, allowing five runs on nine hits with a walk and three strikeouts. Nicole Lopez homered for UH.
Friday
vs. UNLV, 6:30 p.m.
Saturday
vs. UNLV, 4 p.m.
Sunday
vs. Montana, noon
