HONOLULU - Hawai`i split its Western Athletic Conference doubleheader this afternoon with No. 13 Fresno State the Rainbow Wahine Softball Stadium.

UH sophomore Paula Blanning tossed a complete-game shutout in the second game of the day to salvage a win for the Rainbow Wahine in the four-game series with the Bulldogs.

Blanning (1-2) spaced five hits over seven innings striking out three and walking two. It was Blanning's second victory in three decisions over Fresno State in two years. She went 1-1 against the Bulldogs in Fresno last year.

Hawai`i (WAC 5-3, 23-22 overall) got on the board in the first inning on Denise Dahlberg's solo homer, her sixth of the season, to left center off FSU's Laura Ferreira (8-5). This was the only game FSU's All-American pitcher Jamie Southern did not pitch.

Dahlberg's homer held up until UH added three insurance runs in the sixth as Dahlberg led off with a single up the middle and moved to second on April Crowell's infield single off the pitcher's glove. After Tara Harbert came on to pinch-run for Crowell, both runners moved up on a wild pitch. Tyleen Tausaga then squibbed a grounder between first and the circle where Ferreira picked it up and tried unsuccessfully to get Dahlberg at the plate as Harbert took third. Jennifer Hackett came on to pinch-run for Tausaga and immediately stole second. Both runners then came home on Noelle Izumi's two-run double to left center to cap the scoring.

In game one, Southern tossed her third-straight complete-game win with a 5-2 victory. Southern struckout out five and allowed six hits.

Christina Clark was a one woman wrecking crew in the series. Today, the sophomore blasted three home runs and drove in four of the five runs off UH starting pitcher Melissa Coogan (8-12), who struckout eight and walked four.

Clark homered on the very first pitch of the game, but UH regrouped to take an early 2-1 lead after one on RBI singles by Tausaga and Izumi.

That lead held up until the fifth inning when Clark hit an opposite field homer to right. FSU tacked on three more runs in the seventh inning as Shasta Lewis doubled to left center and Clark homered down the left field line for her third round-tripper of the game, fifth in the series, to give FSU a 4-2 lead. Nichole Willis added a solo homer later in the inning.

Hawai`i makes its first WAC road trip of the spring next week heading to both Tulsa and Nevada for eight games in seven days.