March 26, 1999
HONOLULU - In a game that will be counted as an exhibition, Northwestern fell to 2-3 for the Rainbow Easter Baseball Tournament by losing to the red-hot Japanese collegiate team Nittaidai. Junior Ben Dodd (Belleville, Ill./West) struck out six in five innings for the Wildcats, and sophomore Jacob Briskman (Riverwoods, Ill./Deerfield) followed with four innings of shutout ball in relief. Junior center fielder Bob Dainton (Mokena, Ill./Lockport Township) led NU with two hits.
LINE SCORE
Nittaidai 7, Northwestern 0 (exh.)
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E Nittaidai (4-1) 1 0 2 2 2 0 0 0 0 7 11 0 Northwestern (6-9) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 1DP - NU 1; LOB - NU 8, NITT 6; E - (NU) Williamson 2B - (NU) Dainton (NITT) Amano 3B - (NITT) Nakamura, Maruhashi SB - (NU) Williamson (NITT) Amano 3, Umezaki, Nakamura SH - (NITT) Hirase
Pitchers Nittaidai IP H R ER BB SO Onaka (W) 4 1 0 0 3 2 Konishi 3 3 0 0 1 1 Tonouchi 2 1 0 0 0 2
NU IP H R ER BB SO Dodd (L) 5 11 7 7 2 6 Briskman 4 0 0 0 1 2
COMING UP: Saturday, March 27 - NU (Phil Rosengren/0-3, 5.96) vs. team TBA, Rainbow Easter Baseball Tournament seeding play.