After breezing through the first 14 outs on Friday, the University of Hawaii softball team’s defense crumbled and Cal State Fullerton pounced on the miscues in a 7-1 win at Rainbow Wahine Softball Stadium.

The Rainbow Wahine (20-23, 4-6 Big West) committed six errors in the fifth and sixth innings, leading to six unearned runs, and the Titans (36-10, 10-0) extended their winning streak to 11 in claiming the opener of a three-game conference series.

The Titans managed one baserunner against UH right-hander Brittany Hitchcock through 42⁄3 innings before putting two runners on with two out in the fifth on back-to-back errors by shortstop Sarah Muzik. Delynn Rippy, the ninth hitter in the CSF lineup, then broke a scoreless tie with her first home run of the season.

Missy Taukeiaho hammered her eighth home run two batters later to give Cal State Fullerton a 5-0 lead and the UH infield committed four more errors in the sixth inning to surrender a sixth unearned run. The Titans, who entered the weekend with a four-game lead in the conference race, capped the scoring in the seventh on Courtney Rodriguez’s RBI double.

“We got to capitalize on some opportunities and it was really a clutch hit by Delynn Rippy,” Cal State Fullerton coach Kelly Ford said. “She’s just been working on her swing and she went after her pitch and got a good piece of it … and then it sparked everybody.

“Their pitcher was doing a really good job. She was jamming us, and then Delynn broke it open.”

The series concludes with a doubleheader starting at 2 p.m. Saturday on “Power in Pink” day at RWSS.

UH entered Friday’s game last in the Big West and 225th out of 290 teams nationally in fielding percentage and raised its error count to 72 in 43 games this season with Friday’s performance. UH last committed six errors early in the 2009 season against Oklahoma and Mississippi State.

“We’re not a good fielding team and it showed tonight,” UH coach Bob Coolen said. “We haven’t played good defense all year and it’s hurt us.

“It puts our pitchers in trouble, our pitchers think they have to do too much and then we give up two home runs in the same inning. That’s just lack of concentration. … Once we make a mistake our pitchers end up really pressing themselves to pitch better and it doesn’t always work.”

Cal State Fullerton freshman Sydney Golden gave up six hits over six innings, struck out three and walked none in the win. UH third baseman Nicole Lopez broke up the shutout with a solo home run in the bottom of the sixth, but Golden and Desiree Ybarra kept the Wahine from getting any closer.

“We were in it the whole time, just the fifth inning made a turn,” Lopez said. “Stuff happens, we’ll come back tomorrow stronger than today.”

Hitchcock held the Titans — the highest scoring team in the Big West — to one hit and had retired 10 straight before Muzik mishandled the next two grounders with two out in the fifth. The Titans then strung together four straight hits, highlighted by the home runs by Rippy and Taukeiaho, to take control.

Friday

Cal State Fullerton 7, Hawaii 1

Today

Long Beach State at UC Santa Barbara (DH), 10 a.m.

UC Riverside at UC Davis (DH), 10 a.m.

CSUN at Cal Poly (DH), 10 a.m.

Cal State Fullerton at Hawaii (DH), 2 p.m.

Sunday

Long Beach State at UC Santa Barbara, 10 a.m.

UC Riverside at UC Davis, 10 a.m.

CSUN at Cal Poly, 10 a.m.

Sydney Golden, Desiree Ybarra (7) and Alexis Gonzalez, Kylie Padilla (5). Brittany Hitchcock, Jennifer Iseri (6) and Heather Cameron. W–Golden. L–Hitchcock.

Leading hitters–Cal State Fullerton: Missy Taukeiaho, HR, 2 RBIs; Melissa Sechrest, 2b; Courtney Rodriguez, 2B, RBI; Delynn Rippy, HR, 3 RBIs. Hawaii: Nicole Lopez, HR; Heather Morales, 2-3; Dori Ann Sugai, 2B.