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Honu Hold Off BeachBoys, Clinch HWB West

November 4, 2007 - Hawaii Winter Baseball 2 (HWB 2)
North Shore Honu News Release


The North Shore Honu scored the go-ahead run in the top of the ninth inning to edge the Waikiki BeachBoys, 8-7, tonight at Waipahu's Hans L'Orange Park. The North Shore victory coupled with West Oahu's loss on the Big Island gave the Honu (20-8) an 11 ½ game lead in the Hawaii Winter Baseball West Division, enough of an advantage with 11 games remaining on the regular-season schedule to guarantee the Honu the division title, and a berth in the Nov. 19 Championship Game.

With the game tied at 7-7 in the ninth, North Shore's Shintaro Yoshida came home from third base on David Patton's wild pitch to score the go-ahead run. Masahiro Nagata paced the Honu at the plate with a 2-3 performance including a team-high two RBIs. Mat Gamel moved into a tie for the league home run lead after hitting his seventh home run of the season in the fifth inning off Kent Tsujimoto.

Honu hurler Shinya Nakayama improved to a league-best 5-1 on the campaign after earning the victory in relief. The Orix Buffaloes prospect struck out all three batters he faced in the eighth inning, and Omar Aguilar came in to finish off the game in the ninth and picked up his first save.

Patton (0-1, 5.02 ERA) took the loss for Waikiki (14-15) who dropped to ½ game behind Honolulu in the race for supremacy in the HWB East Division.

Both squads return to Hans L'Orange Park tomorrow at 3 p.m. for the series finale.

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