In its biggest output of this young baseball season, the University of Hawaii powered its way to an 11-2 road victory over Minnesota on Thursday at U.S. Bank Stadium.

The game was played on the Minnesota Vikings’ home football field, where there were no dugouts or warning track. But the short-handed Rainbow Warriors had little trouble in producing a season-high 11 runs and 14 hits against six Gophers pitchers and containing a lineup that entered with a .329 batting average.

“We played very well, our best game of the year thus far,” said coach Mike Trapasso, whose ’Bows improved to 4-4, in a postgame phone call. They face Iowa in today’s first round of the Dairy Queen Classic.

Freshman shortstop Dustin Demeter drove in four runs, including two on the ’Bows’ first home runs of the season. Hawaii also induced four bases-loaded walks in a six-run ninth.

Dominic DeMiero (2-0) spaced seven hits in eight innings, allowing two runs and striking out six. He did not issue a walk.

“That is a really difficult lineup to pitch to,” Trapasso said. The Gophers’ usual lineup includes six left-handed batters. DeMiero, a left-hander, pitched in place of front-rotation pitcher Brendan Hornung, a right-hander. “He fit them well,” Trapasso said of DeMiero.

The ’Bows took a 1-0 lead on Alex Fitchett’s two-out double in the first. In the second, Demeter crushed a pitch over the purple tarp serving as the right-field wall for a 3-0 lead.

“There’s a difference between being up one early and three, particularly to the pitcher,” Trapasso said. “It allows you to pound the zone and just pitch ahead in the count. That was good to see because we hadn’t been scoring a lot. It was good to come right out of the gate and put up three in the first two innings.”

The ’Bows entered with a collective .202 batting average and no home runs in seven games. They averaged 2.43 runs per game. Fitchett went 3-for-5 with two RBIs, and Dylan Vchulek, Josh Roja, Tyler Murray and Demeter each had two hits. The ’Bows put down two successful bunts, avoided a double play with a hit-and-run sequence, and did not commit an error.

“We played well and they didn’t play as well as they had been,” Trapasso said. “We were able to take advantage of it and just play well across the board — pitching, defense, and the offense was the best it’s been all year.”

First baseman Eric Ramirez appeared to aggravate a knee injury when he fell after hitting a grounder. Adam Fogel, who had missed the previous two games because of hamstring issues, replaced Ramirez.

“I’m concerned when you don’t have a guy who’s your best defender and 3-hole hitter,” Trapasso said of Ramirez. “We’ll see what happens, and hopefully it’s nothing big. We’ll approach it cautiously from this point on.”