LONG BEACH, Calif. – The Hawai'i baseball team saw its nation-leading 11-game winning streak come to an end at Long Beach State Friday in a 4-3 loss thanks to an eighth-inning solo homer.
 
The loss is the Rainbow Warriors' first since in nearly a month when they fell April 20 at home against Cal Poly. It snapped the longest winning streak by the program since 1995 and the longest conference winning streak since 1989.
 
Down three after three innings, the Rainbow Warriors answered back with single runs in the fourth, fifth and eighth to tie it up. Dallas Duarte put the 'Bows on the board with an RBI double in the fourth before Austin Machado made it 3-2 with a double of his own in the fifth.
 
Alex Giroux entered in the fifth inning and worked three scoreless innings of relief to keep the 'Bows in it and allow Matthew Miura to tie the game in the top of the eighth with a two-out RBI knock.
 
The Dirtbags would answer right back in the bottom half as Armando Briseno smacked a two-out solo homer over the center field fence to put LBSU up for good.
 
The Dirtbags took a 3-0 lead through three innings, scoring an unearned run in the second and two more in the third.
 
The Rainbow Warriors finished with a season-high six doubles – the most in a game by UH since doubling seven times at Cal State Fullerton on Apr. 1, 2023. Kyson Donahue delivered two of those doubles while scoring a pair of runs to finish 2-for-4 while Jared Quandt continued his recent hot streak with a 2-for-4 day while adding a double of his own. Miura, Machado and Duarte added one double each with Miura finishing 2-for-3.

UH out-hit the Dirtbags, 10-8, marking the first time this year in 25 instances that the 'Bows have lost a game in which they out-hit their opponent. It ended a 36-game streak of UH winning when finishing with more hits than their opponent.
 
The two teams play game two of the series Saturday at 3 p.m. HT.