Behind four wild pitches by the Dons' pitching staff in the bottom of the fifth inning, Hawaii broke a 1-1 tie, scored four runs, and then held off visiting San Francisco, 5-3 for their first win in five games.

The Rainbows (3-8) ended their five-game losing skid and stopped the Dons' four-game winning streak before a Rainbow Stadium crowd of 1,315. The Rainbows also got their first extra base hit in four games, ending a drought that lasted 166 plate appearances.

Jamie Aloy's fifth-inning double was the first extra base hit for the Rainbows since Brian Bock's fourth-inning double in the first game of the UCLA series on Feb. 3.

Lane Nogawa ended the Rainbows' batting slump with a bases-loaded, two-run single to snap a 1-all game in UH's fourth-run fifth inning. A wild pitch accounted for one run and Sean Takamori's RBI-single led to the other run in the inning. It ended the Rainbows' streak of scoring three runs in all of their losses during the streak.

Before that, the Rainbows were performing their version of Gilligan's Island by stranding so many runners. In Friday's 4-3 loss, UH stranded 11 runners, nine of them in scoring position. In the first four innings last night, the Rainbows had left eight runners on base, five in scoring position.

Randon Ho (2-2) pitched 52/3 innings, allowing four hits, two runs and four walks for the Rainbows. Peter Dunkle (1-2) pitched 12/3 innings of relief, allowing four runs.

The Dons dropped to 4-4.