That light at the end of an otherwise bleak homestand was the Hawaii baseball team’s 6-2 victory over Cal Poly at Les Murakami Stadium.

A Sunday-afternoon crowd of 1,065 saw Brody Hagel-Pitt and Dylan Thomas collaborate on a six-hitter to boost the Rainbow Warriors to 23-19 overall and 9-9 in the Big West. By ending ending a four-game losing streak, the ’Bows won the finale of this three-game series and prevailed for the second time in a two-weekend, six-game homestand.

“This was huge,” UH coach Mike Trapasso said, after the ’Bows had relinquished a combined 26 runs on Friday night and Saturday night. “It was huge because it got us back to .500 in league.”

The ’Bows will play three nonconference road games against Fresno State this weekend, after which they will finish the regular season with six Big West games. Trapasso is hopeful that three ailing pitchers — Neil Uskali, Dominic DeMiero and Logan Pouelsen — will be available to throw during the stretch run.

“We hope to be healthy on the mound,” Trapasso said. “You take your chances when you’re healthy on the mound. … Considering we had dropped below .500, and now we’re back there, we’re still in shooting distance of second place.”

The ’Bows are a half-game behind (two in the loss column) second-place UC Irvine and Cal Poly (8-7).

The ’Bows used 10 pitchers in the first two games of this series, including Hagel-Pitt and Thomas on Saturday night. Early Sunday, Hagel-Pitt, a senior right-hander, learned he would make the first start of his UH career.

Trapasso “told us we were going to staff it,” said Hagel-Pitt, referring to the strategy of using multiple pitchers for a few innings apiece. “I wasn’t expecting to start.”

In two-thirds of an inning on Saturday, Hagel-Pitt was reaching 92 mph on a fastball that did not break. On Sunday, his two-seam fastball had more movement than oomph.

“That’s the thing about baseball,” Hagel-Pitt said. “I didn’t have it today. I didn’t have my velo(city). … When I slow it down a little bit, I have more of a two-seam run than I normally do. I let that movement work for me, and it got me groundouts.”

In five innings, Hagel-Pitt induced eight groundouts. He’d allowed three hits and one run when he exited with a 2-1 lead at the end of the fifth. It was the longest outing of his collegiate career.

“You can’t underestimate the maturity and poise he showed,” Trapasso said of Hagel-Pitt. “He looked like a different guy out there. He had a starter’s mind-set. He wanted to control the tempo, and pitch ahead in the count. Welcome to the rotation, bud.”

Trapasso said Hagel-Pitt is in consideration to start in one of the games against Fresno State.

Thomas also received an extended assignment. He was summoned in the sixth inning, his earliest call in his two seasons as the ’Bows’ closer. Thomas pitched the final four innings for his 12th save.

“He threw three (innings) last week, so we knew he could extend to four,” Trapasso said. “The one thing you know is Dylan is going to throw the slider for strikes, and force guys to swing at it.”

Thomas faced 10 batters between the sixth and eighth innings, and threw strikes on 21 of 26 pitches. He allowed a two-out RBI single in the ninth.

“I knew I had to get one more guy,” said Thomas, who last pitched four innings when he was a Valencia (Calif.) High starting pitcher in 2015. “I battled through it.”

Thomas induced Bradlee Beesley to fly out to left to end the game. Thomas’ last pitch was his 35th slider. Of Thomas’ 45 pitches, 37 were strikes.

Adam Fogel went 2-for-3 and scored two runs, including one during the ’Bows’ three-run eighth.

“Those three runs were big for us,” Trapasso said. “It was a huge win for us.”