On Mother’s Day, outfielder Adrian Damla delivered a decisive two-run homer in UC Irvine’s 4-3 baseball victory over Hawaii at Les Murakami Stadium.

“My home run is definitely for my mom,” Damla said of his eighth-inning drive off reliever Neil Uskali to rally the Anteaters from a 3-2 deficit. “Happy Mother’s Day to all the moms out there. It’s a great win for us.”

The outcome evened the three-game Big West series entering tonight’s finale. First pitch is scheduled for 6:35.

“It was a tough game,” said UH coach Mike Trapasso, whose ’Bows dropped to 26-18 overall and 8-9 in the Big West. “There’s nothing much you can say. Neil missed his location, and Damla put a great swing on it, and that’s all she wrote. That was the ball game.”

The ’Bows overcame a 2-0 deficit with three runs in the bottom of the sixth. With runners at second and third with one out, left fielder Adam Fogel worked out of two-strike hole to force the count to 3-2. Fogel then lined a single to left to score shortstop Dustin Demeter and third baseman Josh Rojas.

“After that first pitch,” a swinging strike on a high fastball, Fogel said, “I just knew I couldn’t be swinging at something like that again. I had to get something — with (runners on) second and third and less than two (outs) — just to score the run from third. I was thinking about getting that one from third. I worked (the count) full, and (UCI starter Jordan Bocko) left a pitch up, middle in, and I was able to do something with it.”

Fogel scooted to third on Eric Ramirez’s single to right, then scored on Alex Fitchett’s liner to center. “It wasn’t enough,” Fitchett said.

With two outs in the Irvine eighth, Parker Coss grounded a single into left field. Damla then pulled a 1-0 pitch from Uskali over the Hawaii USA Federal Credit Union billboard in right center.

Trapasso, who calls the UH pitches, said Uskali had “good stuff. He had good life. He just missed his location. We tried to go away with a sink(er) and left it middle in.”

Damla said: “First pitch, he threw me a fastball, so I got my timing down right there. He (then) missed with a (pitch). I was expecting a fastball, (and) it just happened to go on my barrel.”

Trapasso praised Uskali, who pitched 31⁄3 innings in his first relief appearance this season. Uskali distributed four hits but no walks.

Dominic DeMiero rejoined the UH pitching rotation — leading to Uskali’s bullpen assignment this series — after being bumped from two starts because of tenderness in his left (pitching) arm. DeMiero pitched 52⁄3 innings, allowing six hits and striking out three. He did not issue a walk. DeMiero threw strikes on 70.5 percent of his pitches.

“I’d like to see him a little bit stronger through 80 pitches,” Trapasso said of DeMiero, who threw 85 pitches. “But he kept us in the game. I’d like to see him give you seven (innings) the way he was throwing. But he has issues the third time through the lineup sometimes, some games when he doesn’t have his best stuff. He pitched well enough to give us a chance.”

Fogel went 3-for-4, and Fitchett and Dylan Vchulek each had two hits. Vchulek extended his on-base streak to 44 games in a row.

“You’d like to score in more than one inning,” Trapasso said. “But we had the lead in the eighth inning, and that’s all you can ask for. It was just a good college baseball game. We came out on the short end. We tip our hat. We have to be ready for the next game.”