LIVE BLOG: Oregon 12, Hawaii 0, F

Opening night is finally here. The 2015 baseball season opens with UH hosting No. 16 Oregon once again for a four-game set. Live updates throughout the evening will be posted below.

To get you caught up, here are our season preview stories.

Spotlight on 2B Stephen Ventimilia
Infield position preview
Spotlight on DH/OF Marcus Doi
Outfield/DH position preview
Spotlight on Quintin Torres-Costa
Pitchers preview

4:43 p.m.: UH baseball SID John Barry says sophomore Marcus Doi will start at DH and hit cleanup tonight for the ‘Bows. Doi, who hit .359 in the 13 games he started last year, has battled a groin injury for nearly a full year and wasn’t allowed to run at full speed for most of the spring.

LINEUPS

Oregon
Matt Eurests, 3B
Jakob Goldfarb, RF
Mitchell Tolman, 2B
Shaun Chase, C
Brandon Cuddy, 1B
Phil Craig-St. Louis, DH
Mark Karaviotis, SS
Steven Packard, LF
Nick Catalano, CF
Cole Irvin, LHP

Hawaii
Stephen Ventimilia, 2B
Jacob Sheldon-Collins, SS
Kaeo Aliviado, CF
Marcus Doi, DH
Alex Sawelson, 3B
Eric Ramirez, 1B
Alan Baldwin, LF
Chayce Ka’aua, C
Matt LoCoco, RF
Tyler Brashears, RHP

Looks like they’ve installed lights on the scoreboard so you can see the clock and the Les Murakami Stadium lettering when it gets dark. Less than 500 tickets left as of 5:25 p.m.

Coaches meeting at home plate is over. We’re about ready to go.

So much for the new balls not making a big difference at the Les. Matt Eureste goes opposite field to left for a solo homer on the second pitch from Brashears. It’s not often you see a lefty go deep over the left-field fence here. Ball carried big time, although the wind is blowing out to left tonight, which doesn’t happen often. 1-0 Ducks.

Brashears sitting 90-91 and strikes out Goldfarb looking. Tolman singles to left but Sheldon-Collins turns a nice double play at second. Inning over.

Irvin toping out at 90 and starts the game with two strikeouts. Aliviado flies out to left on a ball that traveled all the way to the track. Wind is blowing but man the ball is carrying out to left tonight as well as I can ever remember.

Throwing error by Sheldon-Collins allows leadoff man to reach in second. JSC showing some early jitters. Comes back to make a nice play on a tough pick to get the runner at first. Now Sawelson with a throwing error from third and it’s 2-0 Oregon. Some early jitters for the new guys on this team. 2-0, Mid 2.

Pretty good rain fall coming down now sends people scrambling for cover.

Ka’aua makes a pretty athletic play behind the plate to catch a foul pop. Cuddy with a one-out double down the line in right and Craig-St. Louis singles to left to bring him in. Ball goes under Baldwin’s glove but Aliviado does a great job hustling over and makes a great throw to the cutoff guy as they get Craig-St. Louis at third. 3-0 Oregon, Mid 4.

Irvin comes out for the fourth after throwing 32 pitches through 3. Aliviado with a one-out single up the middle and Doi is robbed of an infield hit on a bang-bang play at first. TV replay looked like he was safe. Irvin stays in. Sawelson rips a liner deep to center but it’s caught. Inning over.

Irvin done after 4 IP. 2 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 4 K. Conor Harber in.

First sign of fatigue for Brashears here in the sixth. Cuddy takes advantage with a one-out triple to score Tolman, who led off with a double. That’s it for Tyler. Lefty Alex Hatch in for Brashears, who goes 5 1/3 IP, 6 H, 0 BB, 3 K. Responsible for man on third. Craig-St. Louis take advantage on a drawn-in infield to single up the middle and it’s 5-0 Ducks. Brashears gives up 5 runs, 4 earned.

Hatch really struggling. A walk, a double steal, a wild pitch and then a hit batter ends his day. Juliene Jones in. Now he hits a batter. Not what you wanted to see from the bullpen. Double play to short but Sheldon-Collins throws it wide of the bag at first to allow another runner to score. 8-0. This is the worry when you bring in 18 new guys and start 6 with no D-I experience. Goldfarb goes from down 0-2 to jacking an opposite-field two-run homer on a 3-2 pitch to make it 10-0.

Craig-St. Louis with an RBI single up the middle to make it 11-0. Sheldon-Collins with the nice double-play turn to end it.

Clearly an eye-opening experience for the six newcomers who started. Currently 1-for-13 with four strikeouts and four errors through eight innings. 11-0 Ducks, Top 9.

Six errors for Hawaii, which hasn’t happened since 2011 against Valparaiso. Lawrence Chew pitched the ninth inning in his first action since 2013 after missing all of last year following Tommy John surgery. He gave up an unearned run on two hits.

Sellout crowd of 4,061 was the largest for opening night going back to at least 1996 and probably all the way to the early-90s.