HONOLULU – Despite a late rally to force extra innings, the Hawai'i baseball team fell to Cal Poly 10-7 in 11 innings Saturday night at Les Murakami Stadium.
 
Trailing by four entering the eighth, Hawai'i rallied for four runs to tie the game at 6–6. Draven Nushida knocked a double down the right-field line before Christian Hoffman followed with an RBI double that scored Nushida. Pinch hitter Taylor Takata then singled up the middle to bring home Hoffman and cut the deficit to two. After the Rainbow Warriors put two more runners aboard, Kamana Nahaku ripped a two-RBI double down the left-field line to tie the game.
 
Cal Poly briefly regained the lead in the ninth inning when Murray tripled and later scored on a sacrifice fly. Hawai'i answered in the bottom half when Nushida hustled across the plate from second on a wild pitch to tie the game and send it to extra innings.
 
Cal Poly broke the tie in the 11th inning. With two outs, Jake Downing delivered the decisive blow, lining a three-RBI triple to left-center to put the Mustangs ahead 10-7.
 
The Mustangs got going early. Cam Hoiland doubled to right field to drive in a run. Hoiland later scored on a double to left-center to make it 2-0.
 
Hawai'i answered in the bottom half when Elijah Ickes ripped an RBI single up the middle, plating Nahaku from second to cut the deficit in half.
 
Cal Poly added single runs in the second and third innings to take a 4-1 lead. The Rainbow Warriors got a run back in the fifth when Nushida drove in Ickes with a groundout to first after Ickes doubled to left field. The Mustangs finished with seven doubles, including a two-RBI double by Alejandro Garza in the fifth that extended the Mustangs' lead to 6-2.
 
UH had 13 hits, led by Nushida's 3-for-5 performance with two runs scored and an RBI. Nahaku and Ickes each added two hits, while Tsubasa Tomii kept the Rainbow Warriors in the game with 2.1 scoreless innings in relief.
 
The 'Bows return Sunday at 1:05 pm at Les Murakami looking to salvage the final game of the series.