On getaway day, sixth-ranked North Carolina State beat the clock and subdued Hawaii for an 8-1 baseball victory at Les Murakami Stadium.

The Wolfpack won the rubber game of the season-opening series in 2 hours, 55 minutes to meet the deadline to head to the airport for a late-afternoon flight. After the teams split the first two games, Tommy DeJuneas and four relievers combined to one-hit the Rainbow Warriors on Sunday.

“That’s a great team that’s going to be in the hunt for Omaha,” said Mike Trapasso, referring to the College World Series site. “We battled with them for the first two games and half of this one. But I didn’t like the way we played in the last four innings. That’s what happens when you play a team that’s ranked in the top 10 in the country. A lot of people don’t have the cojones to play a team like that right out of the gate with a lot of new guys. It’s baptism by fire. It’s the way you learn.”

DeJuneas, a right-hander whose fastball can reach 95 mph, walked the lead-off batter in the first two innings. After that, he re-adjusted his scope. “I felt I had to change my sights,” DeJuneas said. “I was missing up. Once I got into a rhythm, I tried to aim low — knee-high, even lower. The fastball, after the first two innings, I felt I could put it wherever I wanted.”

DeJuneas pitched 52⁄3 innings, allowing only Dylan Vchulek’s third-inning single. He departed after issuing consecutive two-out walks in the sixth. But left-handed specialist Kent Klyman induced left-handed Eric Ramirez to hit a flyout to left to end that threat. Freshman Dalton Feeney, who can hit 96 mph on the speed gun, Joe O’Donnell and Johnny Piedmonte did not allow a hit the rest of the way. The ’Bows’ lone run was manufactured in the eighth inning when Logan Pouelsen walked, advanced to second on an errant pick-off attempt, went to third on a groundout, and scooted home on a wild pitch.

But the ’Bows could not take advantage of eight walks nor elude the Pack catchers’ strong arms. Brad Debo threw out two ’Bows attempting to steal second, and Jack Conley picked off Ramirez at first in the ninth inning.

Neil Uskali made his first start for the ’Bows, allowing two runs — one earned — in five innings. “He had just one bad inning,” Trapasso said, noting consecutive walks to open the second led to a 2-0 deficit. “Outside of the walks, he pitched really well.”

If this were not the opening weekend, Uskali would have been allowed to return for the sixth inning. But Trapasso said he wanted to give game work to Jackson Rees, a junior college transfer who is capable of starting or relieving. But Rees could not throw his cutter for strikes, and deprived of an out pitch, the Pack scored two runs in each of the sixth and seventh innings.

“It starts on the mound,” Trapasso said. “Jackson wasn’t good (on Sunday), and we think he’s a guy who’ll be pretty good. … He just wasn’t able to pitch ahead in the count. They were laying off his cutter, and that’s his best pitch. He wasn’t even giving himself a chance because it wasn’t anywhere near the plate.”

Trapasso said the ’Bows were able to start three freshmen on Sunday and use 11 different pitchers this weekend. “We just didn’t play well (on Sunday),” Trapasso said. “They were better today.”