As Shocker fans slept, Wichita State baseball ended nation’s longest home win streak
While many Shocker fans were fast asleep, the Wichita State baseball team put a stop to the nation’s longest home winning streak in the early hours of Saturday.
Behind a stellar effort from sophomore Brady Hamilton on the mound and a potent offense, WSU snapped Hawaii’s 16-game winning streak in Honolulu with an 11-4 victory in a game that finished at 2:03 a.m. Central (10:03 p.m. local time).
Hamilton blanked the Rainbow Warriors through the first five innings to earn his first victory of the 2025 season behind a career-high eight strikeouts. Meanwhile, WSU’s offense racked up 13 hits and scored a season-high 11 runs after scoring just 16 runs total in its first four games of the season.
It was a much stronger finish from the Shockers just one day after enduring a hectic travel schedule just to reach Hawaii in time for Thursday’s series opener, which the Rainbow Warriors (5-1) won in walk-off fashion with an infield RBI single in the bottom of the 10th inning. The 4-game series continues for WSU (2-3) with a 10:35 p.m. Central game on Saturday.
Five different Shockers finished with multi-hit games on Friday, none bigger than Jordan Rogers. He broke the game open in the seventh inning with a 3-run home run to extend WSU’s lead to 8-2 and tacked on an RBI single the following inning. Kam Durnin and Hunter Carlson both finished with two hits and two RBIs.
With Hamilton dealing, WSU had plenty of time to build an early lead.
Durnin singled through the left side in the second inning to plate Josh Livingston for the opening run of the game, then Carlson delivered a 2-RBI single in the fourth inning and Durnin notched another RBI single in the fifth inning for a 5-0 lead. A throwing error by Camden Johnson allowed Hawaii to claw two back in the sixth inning, but Rogers’ 3-run blast gave the Shockers all the cushion they needed.
After Hamilton was knocked from the game in the sixth inning without recording an out, Siena transfer Arnad Mulamekic provided a reliable long-relief arm out of the bullpen and kept Hawaii in line for 3-plus innings.
Aaron Arnold was summoned in the ninth inning to escape a bases-loaded jam and put an end to Hawaii’s “Mānoa magic” that had produced three walk-off wins in the team’s first five games of the season.
This story was originally published February 22, 2025 at 7:02 AM.
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