An auspicious start to Hawai'i's seven-game road trip took a detour the last two games, as No. 21 Fresno State stomped Hawai'i, 13-2, yesterday to take 2 of 3 in the Western Athletic Conference series at Beiden Field in Fresno, Calif.

After losing Friday's opener to the strong pitching performance of UH's Steven Wright, the Bulldogs (26-10 overall, 7-2 WAC) kept sole possession of first in the conference with even better pitching of their own against the Rainbows (25-11, 3-5), who remain in sixth place in the seven-team WAC.

Andy Underwood (6-2) logged seven innings, allowing an unearned run, six hits and a walk with five strikeouts. With a 9-1 lead, he was pulled for Brandon Miller in the eighth (allowed an unearned run). Jason Breckley pitched a perfect ninth. It was the second consecutive game FSU's pitching took control. In Saturday's 6-1 win, Eddie Romero allowed a run in 6 2/3 innings.

It also was the second consecutive game UH's starting pitcher was scored upon in the first inning. The Bulldogs jumped on Ian Harrington for three runs when eight batters came to the plate in the first. Harrington (4-2) was tagged for seven runs (six earned) in 4 1/3 innings, giving up nine hits with four strikeouts.

"The tone has to start on the mound," UH coach Mike Trapasso said. "When you get yourself into a hole right away it's tough. But the game wasn't over and the game wasn't over (Saturday) night because of Tyler (Davis) and it wasn't over today until when we brought in (Matt) Daly and (when Brian) Lapin hit the three-run homer and that was pretty much all she wrote.

"Obviously, you have to give credit to Romero and Underwood, but we've hit guys like that before. We just didn't show up. Outside of Tyler Davis (one run in six innings of relief on Saturday), we were pretty disappointing because we know we can play better. We just have to regroup."

The 13 runs and 16 hits by the Bulldogs were the second-highest numbers allowed by UH this season. (UH allowed 15 runs and 21 hits in a loss to Texas-Arlington.) Fresno State's first nine hits were singles. Three Bulldogs had three hits: Steve Susdorf was 3 for 5 with an RBI; Nick Moresi was 3 for 5 with three RBIs; and Christian Vitters was 3 for 5 with two RBIs. Lapin was 2 for 4 with five RBIs.

"In the first inning, you could see their approach was to go with the pitch," Trapasso said. "But when they were doing their damage, they were the same team they've always been, which is very aggressive early in the count."

The Bulldogs opened the game with successive singles and Kent Sakamoto beat out a bunt for a single in an apparent sacrifice attempt to load the bases. After Beau Mills fouled out to the catcher, Vitters' two-run single was followed by Lapin's RBI single to make it 3-0.

Hawai'i got one back in the top of the third. Joe Spiers singled, stole second and scored on the first of two errors in the inning by second baseman Erik Wetzel.

An error by third baseman Jon Hee accounted for an unearned run in a two-run third by FSU that made it 5-1.

Harrington hit a batter and allowed a single with one out in the fifth before being pulled for Daly, who was greeted with Lapin's three-run home run to make it 8-1.

Moresi's RBI single in the sixth made it 9-1. A four-run seventh against Keahi Rawlins, the fourth UH pitcher, made it 13-1. Justin Wilson had a pinch-hit RBI single, followed by Susdorf's RBI double and Moresi's two-run double, which came off Jayson Kramer.

In the UH eighth, Spiers reached on a fielding error. One out later, he stole second and took third when pinch hitter Ryan Asato grounded out to first. Spiers then scored on pinch hitter Adam Roberts' single to right, making it 13-2.

Although Mark Rodrigues pitched two-thirds of an inning, he used only eight pitches. Trapasso said Rodrigues will start tomorrow's nonconference game at California (16-16). Game time is 11 a.m., Hawai'i time.

The Bears have lost four in a row and were just swept in a three-game series at Southern California. Last year, the Bears hammered UH, 11-0. Then the Rainbows went on to sweep a three-game series at San Jose State.

After Cal, UH will resume WAC play Friday at Nevada.