UH-Hilo/UH-Manoa watch, Feb. 24

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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