Cal State Northridge weathered a five-homer outburst from Hawaii for an 8-7 baseball victory at Matador Field. ADVERTISING Cal State Northridge weathered a five-homer outburst from Hawaii for an 8-7 baseball victory at Matador Field. Josh Rojas hit two home
Cal State Northridge weathered a five-homer outburst from Hawaii for an 8-7 baseball victory at Matador Field.
Josh Rojas hit two home runs and Dustin Demeter, Adam Fogel and Eric Ramirez added one apiece for the Rainbow Warriors, who dropped the opener of this three-game Big West series.
The ”Bows fell to 22-16 overall and 4-6 in the Big West. The Matadors won their fifth in a row to improve to 21-22 and 8-5.
UH starting pitcher Brendan Hornung exited with 5-4 lead after five innings. But the Matadors hit two homers in a three-run sixth against Colin Ashworth to take a 7-5 lead they would not relinquish.
Rojas, Fogel, Demeter and Logan Pouelsen collected two hits each.
Saturday’s game starts at 10 a.m. Hawaii time.
Wahine win
Callee Heen hit a pair of two-run home runs and Brittany Hitchcock tossed her 26th complete game of the season as Hawaii beat UC Riverside 5-1 in Honolulu to start a three-game series.
Hitchcock (17-9) scattered seven hits and allowed just one run. She issued one walk with six strikeouts to lower her ERA to 1.83.
The Wahine (26-18, 5-8) snapped a three-game losing streak.
