Honu Hold On to Beat BeachBoys

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Honu Hold On to Beat BeachBoys

Kyle Galdeira
10/20/07

Shintaro Yoshida drove in three runs on two hits and buoyed the North Shore offensive attack as the Honu eked out a 5-4 win over the visiting Waikiki BeachBoys in a Hawaii Winter Baseball game tonight at Hilo’s Francis Wong Stadium.

The Honu (12-6) jumped on the scoreboard early, bringing home four runs on two hits. BeachBoy starter Shane Lindsay struggled, retiring two batters in the opening frame, and allowing four runs—two of which came on bases-loaded walks to Jonathan Lucroy and Chris Valaika. Shintaro Yoshida blooped a single into shallow left field to bring in two more runs, and put North Shore up 4-0 after one inning. Lindsay threw 31 pitches, ten of which were strikes.

Waikiki (8-10) figured out Honu starter Logan Ondrusek in the fifth inning, as Lucas Duda doubled and David Maroul brought him home with an RBI single to right field. Josh Womack later reached on a two-out single, and ensuing batter Emmanuel Garcia walked to load the bases, but Ondrusek got catcher Michael McKenry to strike out looking on a breaking ball with a full count to avoid any further damage.

The BeachBoys narrowed the deficit to 4-3 in the seventh frame on a Michael Wilson, two RBI single with two out. Waikiki notched the score at 4-4 in the ensuing inning as Josh Womack singled in Justin Sellers from second base.

But, the Honu picked up the go-ahead run in the home half of the eighth as Yoshida plated pinch runner Jeramy Laster from third base on a sacrifice fly to center field.

North Shore reliever Charles Benoit (3-0, 2.25 ERA) picked up the victory despite blowing his second save of the season when he allowed the tying run to score. Takashi Kamoshida earned his first save by holding the lead in the ninth while striking out two.

BeachBoy reliever Kent Tsujimoto (6.94 ERA) fell to 1-1 on the season after allowing Laster’s run in the eighth.

The two squads return to Francis Wong Stadium tomorrow at 3 p.m. for the series finale.