HONOLULU - Hawai`i swept a pair of Western Athletic Conference games from Tulsa tonight at the Rainbow Wahine Softball Stadium. UH run-rule the Golden Hurricane, 8-0, in the first game and took 10 innings to pull out a 4-3 victory in game two.

Hawai`i got on the board quickly in the first inning as Tracie Uchima led off with a single, moved to second on a sacrifice bunt, and scored on Stacey Porter's opposite field double to right. Kate Judd then drove home Porter on a single through the left side on the infield.

The Rainbow Wahine broke the game open in the third putting up a four-spot and chased Tulsa starter Ami Day (12-10).

With one out, April Crowell, Porter, Judd, Trisha Ramos, and Marie Jackson all singled as Day departed for reliever Lindsey Dyer. Judd and Jackson's hits were 2-run singles, the big blows in the inning.

UH added two more runs in the fifth to enforce the 8-run rule. Tulsa's Dyer retired the first batter she faced, but three consecutive singles by Jackson, Ruff, and Justina Kahaku loaded the bases. Uchima then hit a grounder to short that was bobbled, UT's four error of the game, allowing Jackson to score from third. Dyer then struckout Denise Dhalberg looking, but gave up a single up the middle to Crowell that provided the eighth run to cross the plate in the shortened game.

Jackson and Crowell each collected three hits apiece in the first game, while Judd drove in three runs.

Coogan (21-9) got the starting nod in the second game and breezed through the first three innings retiring the Golden Hurricane in order, before allowing Tulsa to score its first run of the day. UT's Stephanie Sliepen, Crissy Strimple, and Katie Torres each singled for the lone run in the fourth.

However, the Rainbow Wahine responded in the bottom of the inning against last week's All-WAC Pitcher of the Week Maren Genow (13-5). Prior to the fourth, Genow retired the first 10 batters she faced.

Crowell hammered Genow's 1-1 pitch deep over the right field fence to tie the game at one. Then Porter, Judd, and Ramos collected consecutive singles before Ruff blooped a 2-run single to right center to give UH a 3-1 lead.

Tulsa tied the game up in the seventh picking up a couple of runs. Both Katie Torres and Stacey Walkingstick singled, moved up one base each on Kelly Miller's sacrifice bunt. But, Stephanie Hiar, who came into pinch-run for Torres, was picked off third base by catcher Dahlberg for the second out. Nevertheless, Brandi McGuire hit a 2-run shot to left to tie the game at three.

UH had a chance in the seventh and eighth innings, but came up empty. In the seventh, Kahaku led off with a single. After Uchima popped up a bunt for an out, Dahlberg beat out a bunt single out in front of the plate. UT catcher Sliepen's throw went sailing down the right field line. Kahaku went all the way around to third base, but went to far around the bag and got caught in a rundown and was tagged out. In the eighth, both Porter and Judd singled to start the inning, but UT's Genow got the next three batters to retire the side.

Finally in the 10th inning UH broke the tie as Porter led off with a double off the right center field fence, moved to third on Judd's infield single up the middle, and scored as Genow unleashed a wild pitch to the backstop to score Porter.

Hawai`i improves to 27-16 overall and makes a statement in the conference racing out to an 8-2 WAC mark. Tulsa falls to 29-20 and 4-4. The two teams complete the four-game series with a twinbill Saturday at 1 p.m.