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Show StatesmanSports Friday, April 9, 2010 Page 9 Great Summer Jobs Rainbow Wahine dominate Aggies in Hawaii USU locked up the score at four apiece. Kaneshiro said sports senior writer she came to the plate with a load of confidence. USU softball was soundly "I felt like I was seeing the defeated in Wednesday's ball really well," she said, doubleheader against Hawaii "and I had my team behind at Hawaii's LaRee and me, backing me up, so I felt LeGrand Johnson softball like I had all the support in field Wednesday afternoon, the world. I just saw the ball 12-4, 18-8. and hit it as hard as I could." In the second game, USU's Before the inning was out, Kali Kaneshiro and Simone USU managed to get one Hubbard hit two home runs more run around and take a apiece off Hawaii's pitching 5-4 lead. staff. Hubbard hit her homThe lead was short-lived, ers, both solo shots, in the however. Hawaii's batting second and fifth innings. was nothing short of superb Kaneshiro hit her homers in in this doubleheader. In the third, at which time the total, Hawaii amassed 32 game was still very much in hits over the 13 innings of contention, and the seventh, the two games, averaging by which time the game had 2.46 hits per inning and all but been decided. 2.3 runs per inning. In Rachel these two Evans games, "I just saw the started Hawaii ball and hit it as out the also hit hard as I could." third nine home inning of — Kali Kaneshiro runs the second against game by the Aggie taking an errant pitch in pitching staff, the worst the back by Hawaii's Paia stretch being in the top of Karnaby. Nicole Tindall the fourth inning of the secfollowed up Evans, by sendond game. In that inning, ing a single to left field, USU pitcher Kate Greenough placing Evans in scoring surrendered back-to-back position at second. Carissa solo jacks to the Wahine Millsap-Kabala called for with two outs on the board. Xiao Xue Chang to get the The Wahine had the Aggies' sacrifice bunt, which Chang number all afternoon in the executed with perfection. batter's box. By contrast, Then, Kaneshiro came to bat USU struggled to find a solid and hit a home run over the game at the plate, averaging center field wall to bring in 1.23 hits per inning and 0.92 three runs with only one out runs per inning. in the inning. At that point, The relentless offensive By LANDON HEMSLEY pounding put on by the Wahine may not have been all that much of a bad thing, according to Millsap-Kabala. "It's a great example of a team that takes their hands to the ball and has the full plate covered," she said. "It's what I've been trying to get our players to do, so it's great to have a perfect example and to see someone succeed from it. Now we can do that. If you look at the way Kali Kaneshiro and Simone Hubbard did that — I mean, they were up there drinking the Kool-Aid, covering the whole plate. Simone got two shots, Kelli got two shots and it's good to jump on that bus. We can learn and we can move forward from this." Kaneshiro agreed with her coach on the statement that USU's batting needed to be much better against a team with the offensive strength that Hawaii has. "You've just got to play good defense and hit them back as hard as you can," Kaneshiro said. "I guess a team that hits like that, you can't do anything but hit like that back, so you've just got to fight as hard as you can with all you've got." Regardless of the scoring differential, the Aggies played a pair of decent offensive games. What did in the Utah women was the consistency of the Hawaii women to figure out USU's pitching and produce offensively throughout the game. In par- ticular, an extremely painful seventh inning in the second game erased all doubt of which team would come out on top, as Hawaii rattled off eight runs and put Wahine in front, 18-6. Hawaii's Mikalemi TagabCruz started out the top of the seventh with a single to left field and was followed by a Amanda Tauali'i double down the right field line. With no outs in the inning, Greenough then delivered a pitch to Hawaii's Katie Grimes who nearly hit the ball out of the park. The ball struck the top of the fence in left-center field, went straight up and just barely landed in play. Both TagabCruz and Tauali'i scored, and that ended Greenough's day. Shelbi Tyteca promptly replaced Greenough in the circle. Millsap-Kabala explained the reasoning behind the substitution. "Kate (Greenough) worked so hard," she said, "but it was the fifth time that the batters were coming around on her. If we have to face Hawaii in the WAC, why give them more pitches against Kate? She's our go-to. There's no sense in that. It's a great opportunity for Shelbi to get some pitches against people that are covering the plate for her to learn how to do that, so that way if it ever falls on her again that she can have that experience." Hawaii continued its dominant ways against Tyteca, scoring six more runs before the inning was out. Tyteca, however, stood undaunted and continued to battle to the best of her abilities until the day was done. With the slimmest hope of redemption in the bottom of the seventh, Hawaii came out and left little to doubt. USU managed to score two off of Kaneshiro's second homer and reduce the gap to 10 runs, but could do no more. Next up for the Ags is a set of road games at secondplace Fresno State. USU will take the first pitch Friday at 7 p.m. MST and will continue in a doubleheader to be played Saturday beginning at 2 p.m. MST. These games are the first three of eight straight on the road for USU. — la.hem@aggiemail.usu.edu Utah State University's athletics department will be honoring former equipment manager Ken Seamons by officially naming the equipment room in the Jim and Carol Laub AthleticsAcademics Complex in his honor on Saturday, April 24, at 1 p.m. A former Utah State football player, who wishes to remain anonymous, made the gift to name the equipment room in honor of Seamons. The ceremony will be held on the first floor of the Jim and Carol Laub Athletics- Academics Complex and is Utah State, had a lot of good open to the public. A tour times and met a lot of nice of USU's new 6,000-squarepeople from the student-athfoot equipment room will letes, to their parents and all immediately follow the administrators. the unveiling of the J. I have lived in Cache Ken "Kenny" Seamons Valley my whole life Equipment Room. and I am really excitFollowing the tour, ed about everything Utah State's football that is going on up at team will hold its USU right now. I am Blue-White Spring truly an Aggie." Game, which is schedSeamons served as uled to begin at 2 Utah State's head p.m., on Merlin Olsen equipment manager Field inside Romney SEAMONS from 1966 to 1992 Stadium. and managed ath"It is quite an honor to letic equipment for every have the equipment room Aggie team while working named after me," Seamons out of a 915-square-foot said. "I spent 26 years at room. 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