An already eventful road trip has suddenly gotten a whole lot worse for the Hawaii baseball team.

Gonzaga has a chance to become the first team to sweep the Rainbows this season after winning both games of Saturday’s doubleheader at Washington Trust Field in Spokane, Wash.

Marco Gonzales, the offensive hero of Friday’s victory, took a no-hitter into the seventh inning in a 4-0 shutout of Hawaii in the first game.

Things got even worse in the second game as the Bulldogs rallied from a two-run deficit in the eighth inning, scoring the game-winning run on a throwing error by Pi‘ikea Kitamura to win 7-6 and take a 3-0 series lead.

Hawaii (14-10), which was 12-0 in games it led after seven innings before Saturday, has lost three in a row for the second time this season. UH needs a win today to avoid a winless road trip for the first time since 2008.

“The second game stings because we battled so hard and really showed some character and toughness, and to lose it by throwing balls around and not making plays, that’s out of character for us,” Hawaii coach Mike Trapasso said. “We need to come out with that same toughness and intensity (today) and try to get a win out of this.”

Gonzales retired 18 Rainbows in a row after issuing a leadoff walk to Stephen Ventimilia to start the day.

Ventimilia and Breland Almadova singled to start the ninth when reliever Zach Abbruzza replaced Gonzales and recorded a strikeout and double play to earn his second save.

Hawaii failed to score in support of starter Jarrett Arakawa (2-2) for the second straight outing.

Arakawa, who lost 3-0 to San Francisco last weekend, allowed two earned runs on nine hits in six innings with three walks and no strikeouts.

Gonzaga (15-6) outhit the Rainbows 12-4.

“Gonzales was everything as advertised,” Trapasso said. “We heard he was special and he was.”

Hawaii, which had scored only nine runs in its previous six games, took a 3-0 lead in the first inning of the second game.

Collin Bennett, dropped to fifth in the lineup, hit a two-out RBI single and Trevor Podratz followed with a two-run double.

The lead didn’t last an inning as Gonzaga scored three times in the bottom of the inning, chasing Hawaii starter Scott Squier, who recorded only one out.

Squier allowed three hits and a walk, and two hit batters, before he was pulled for reliever David Longville.

“Normally I’d let a freshman go ahead and battle his way through and try to figure it out, but we were in a situation where we lost (Friday) night and got shut out in the first game,” Trapasso said. “We were in control for most of the game because we came back and scored two in the second inning, but the three errors really hurt us.”

Longville worked the next 6 2/3 innings as Hawaii took a 6-4 advantage into the eighth.

Junior Billy Nottingham, who started at first base in place of Max Duval, started the inning with an error.

Longville allowed a single to Royce Bolinger before he was pulled for reliever Brent Harrison, who gave up a sacrifice bunt, which moved the runners to second and third.

After a sacrifice fly by Billy Moon, Clayton Eslick delivered an RBI single to tie the game at 6.

Alex Stanford singled to start the bottom of the ninth and scored from second with one out on a slow-hit grounder by Eric Lane that Kitamura threw wide of the bag at first, ending the game.

Harrison (1-1) took the loss.

Four Rainbows had two hits each in the second game, including Podratz, who was 3-for-8 with two RBIs in the doubleheader.

Hawaii freshman Kyle Dowdy (1-0, 0.57 ERA) will likely start the series finale at 10 a.m. today.

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