In the best-case scenario, you always want to go out winners and the University of Hawaii at Hilo baseball team did just that on Senior Sunday, closing out the season with a well-played 3-1 victory over Hawaii Pacific, following a 4-0 loss in the first game of a doubleheader at Wong Stadium.
This is a team built on “Little Ball” principles and they played the seven-inning game in near perfect fashion behind senior Jordan Kumasaka (2-3), who went 6 1/3 innings, allowing only five singles and a double to wind up his UHH career.
But the win came with some outstanding execution of coach Kallen Miyataki’s approach with a team that wasn’t big on the long ball all season.