Brittany Hitchcock finished off a complete-game shutout in the University of Hawaii softball team’s 3-0 win over UC Riverside in the resumption of a Big West series Sunday at Rainbow Wahine Softball Stadium.

Hitchcock held UCR to four hits, struck out five, walked none and improved to 10-5 in a start interrupted by rain on Saturday and completed Sunday in the first game of a doubleheader.

UH sophomore Kanani Aina Cabrales followed with seven more shutout innings and the Rainbow Wahine claimed the series win with a 1-0 victory in the finale to improve to 21-15 overall and 2-1 in the Big West.

Saturday’s originally scheduled first game of the doubleheader was suspended with one out in the top of the third inning and Hitchcock worked out of jams in her first two innings when the game resumed.

UCR left runners at second and third in the third and fourth innings and the Rainbow Wahine broke through in the bottom of the fourth. With runners on second and third and two out, Kristina Akiona lined a double into the left field corner to give UH a 2-0 lead.

Keiki Carlos doubled to lead off the bottom of the fifth and Kayla Wartner was hit by a pitch, prompting UCR coach Linda Garza to lift Highlanders ace Chelsea Ponce. Leisha Li’ili’i’s fly ball to the fence in left field fell in and Carlos scored on the long single.

UH left the bases loaded, but Hitchcock protected the lead the rest of the way and finished her third shutout of the season.

In the second game, the Rainbow Wahine gave Aina Cabrales a lead in the third inning when Kayla Wartner drilled an opposite-field double to left field to score Carlos from first.

Aina Cabrales gave up five hits, struck out four and walked one and stranded seven UCR base runners. A two-out error and a passed ball put the tying run on third in the top of the sixth. But Aina Cabrales came back with a strikeout to end the threat.

Ponce (21-5) took the loss in both games. The loss in Sunday’s opener was her first since a 10-2 defeat against Arizona on Feb. 28. She had won 12 straight decisions since.