Long Beach State had the last word about Hawaii in its first Big West series of 2025.
Beach took the Saturday doubleheader from Rainbow Wahine (8-3 and 9-1) and won the 3-game series 2-1 after stumbling on the preseason Big West favourite at Rainbow Wahine Softball Stadium on Friday night.
Um (15-10, 1-2 BWC) Next comes Cal State Northridge, Northridge, California, both Friday and Saturday at 10am Hawaii time. Matador (10-12, 3-0) cleaned up Calpoli over the weekend.
Bob Coolen’s second starter Macy Brandle (6-4) went on to six innings in his first game on Saturday, but in the process he scored seven runs (6 innings) with eight hits.
Wahine Ace Addison Kostrencich (8-5), who won against the previous program on Friday, ended with failing to replicate it after just 1 2/3 innings in the final game of the series.
Millie Fidge received two rescues that day.
First baseman Jamie McGoggie went 3-3 in Saturday’s first match. This marked the game’s 2-2 team-high sixth home run in the first innings. Kiyara-Leigh Tuiloma added the RBI single in the second, with UH claiming a temporary 3-2 lead.
Makayla Medellin reached Brandl on his fifth two-run shot, while Beach poured in four runs in the top of the seventh.
LBSU (11-9, 2-1) hit Wahine four times behind the full game from Kate Burnett in the series finale. Serena Perez hit home runs in the second and fourth innings, and Medellin’s base in the sixth removed a double, pushing the game into the realm of mercy rules.
The only score of uh was the baseloaded walk of Milan a Yatt for the fifth time.
Brian McInnis covers the Spectrum News Hawaiian state sports scene. He can be contacted at brian.mcinnis@charter.com.
