Hawaii baseball team releases full 2025 schedule with eye on Big West tournament

The Hawaii baseball team released its full 2025 schedule on Monday, with 35 of 52 games to take place on a new turf field at Les Murakami Stadium.

UH is currently installing new turf to replace its well-worn DomoTurf that was installed in 2008.

Coach Rich Hill has resolved to play his nonconference series exclusively at home, if possible, and his fourth season in Manoa holds to that ethos.

UH begins with 12 straight at LMS — three consecutive four-game series — starting with the opener against Marshall on Feb. 14. Wichita State and Northeastern come to town the next two weeks. The Rainbow Warriors own the nation’s longest home winning streak at 11 games entering the season.

Big West play begins a week earlier this year to make space for the inaugural Big West baseball tournament, which will include the top five of 11 teams in the conference. UH heads to UC Riverside for the first of 10 three-game BWC series starting March 7.

The Rainbow Warriors, who have closed seasons strong under Hill but have yet to win it all in the BWC, will attempt to make the tournament May 21 to 25 at Cal State Fullerton with the Big West’s automatic NCAA Tournament berth as the prize.

UH, coming off a 37-16 season in which it won 18 of its last 20 games, has not made the NCAAs since 2010.

UH’s home Big West series are UC Santa Barbara (March 14-16), UC Davis (March 22-24), Long Beach State (April 4-6), Cal State Bakersfield (April 25-27) and UC San Diego (May 15-17). The regular-season finale against UCSD on May 17 may change due to a scheduling conflict.

Big West road series are UCR (March 7-9), CSUN (March 28-30), Cal Poly (April 11-13), UC Irvine (April 17-19) and Cal State Fullerton (May 9-11).

Oregon State, competing as a Division I independent for a year as the Pac-12 Conference awaits its new members, visits for a late-season four-day nonconference series May 2-5.

For the second straight year, UH will face all three local Division II programs with a combined four games against Chaminade, Hawaii Hilo and Hawaii Pacific at Les Murakami Stadium. UH will see Chaminade there twice (March 11 and April 22) in the second year for coach Chad Konishi.

Stand-alone nonconference road games between mainland series are Santa Clara (April 8), and USC (April 15).

UH led the country in earned-run average last season at 3.78. It returns tantalizing prospect Itsuki Takemoto, who was the most outstanding pitcher at the prestigious Cape Cod League over the summer.

Brian McInnis covers the state’s sports scene for Spectrum News Hawaii. He can be reached at brian.mcinnis@charter.com.