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Seasiders End Season, Honor Seniors and Coach
Laie, HI—The Brigham Young University Hawaii women’s softball team lost both ends of a doubleheader today to Chaminade, losing 7-5 in 11 innings in the opener and dropping the second game 3-2. The Seasiders, playing their final games of the season, then bid farewell to three seniors and their head coach.
Five unearned runs cost the Seasiders dearly in the opening game. The Silverswords scored three times in the first, two of them unearned, but BYU–Hawaii came back with a two-run homer from Kehea Alohikea-Betham, her eighth of the year, to close the gap to 3-2. Alohikea-Betham’s blast to left center followed a two-out single by Ivy Sessions.
Chaminade picked up a single run in the third to go up 4-2 but the Seasiders rallied in the bottom of the sixth with an unearned run of their own. After Sessions singled to start the inning, Alohikea-Betham drew a walk. Morgan Necaise then laid down a sacrifice bunt that the Silverswords threw away, allowing Sessions to score from second.
BYU–Hawaii tied the game at 4-4 with another run in the bottom of the seventh. With two outs, Melissa Lehano singled up the middle to start the rally. Lauren Fielding drew a walk and then both Sessions and Alohikea-Betham were hit by pitches to drive in the tying run and send the game to extra innings.
BYU–Hawaii got a runner as far as third base in the eighth inning and Chaminade did the same in the ninth but neither team was able to score. In the tenth inning the teams went to the international tiebreaker rule and placed a runner on second base to start the inning. Chaminade finally broke through in the tenth on an RBI single by Erin Keelan and added two more with the help of two more BYU–Hawaii errors. The Seasiders came back with a run in the bottom of the inning on an RBI single by Fielding and had runners on second and third with two outs but a fly ball to left ended the game.
BYU–Hawaii took a 2-0 lead in the third inning of game two when Tina Moen doubled to left center to lead off the inning and scored on a nearly identical double by Lehano. Alohikea-Betham plated Lehano with another double, down the left field line.
Chaminade scored all three of its runs in the top of the fifth, aided by another costly BYU–Hawaii error. Only one of the runs was earned. The Seasiders tried to rally in the bottom of the seventh by loading the bases with two outs, but failed to score and the game was over.
With the losses, BYU–Hawaii ends the season at 13-27 overall and 6-16 in the PacWest while Chaminade is now 9-32 overall and 8-12 in the conference.
BYU–Hawaii honored seniors Lehano, Sessions, and Kim Artiaga following the game and also paid tribute to Head Coach Jackson Mapu, who is retiring from coaching following ten years at the helm of the Seasiders.