University of Hawaii baseball coach Mike Trapasso lauded Stone Miyao’s upside earlier this season, but he had a caveat.
“Stone has to keep the ball out of the air a little bit,” the coach said. “He’s got to understand that in this ballpark that really doesn’t work a lot.”
Miyao, a former Waiakea High standout, had indeed started to hit more line drives at Les Murakami Stadium, but don’t cut his home run stroke short just yet.
Miyao maintained his surge Saturday, hitting his first career home run and collecting four more hits across a doubleheader as the ‘Bows beat UC Davis, 8-3 and 7-2, in Honolulu.
Miyao, who’s switched to third base recently, has multithit games in all three of the wins so far in the series against the Aggies – and four of his past five games – and he’s lifted his average to .286 by going 9 for 23 over his last five contests, driving in five runs during that span.
Hawaii (19-14, 11-12 Big West) will look to win its first Sunday game in Big West play when it finishes the series with the Aggies (10-27, 5-18) at 1:05 p.m in game that will be televised by Spectrum Sports.