Box Score HILO, Hawai`i—Unlike the old television sitcom back in the day, eight was not enough for the Hawai`i Hilo Vulcans on Thursday night.

Playing without Brian Ishola, who was out with the flu, the Vulcans were upset by visiting Holy Names at the Civic Auditorium, 89-85. The win was just the second in conference play for the Hawks (2-8) and they improved to 3-14 overall. The Vulcans dropped to 4-5 in the Pacific West Conference and to 6-9 on the year.

The Vulcans certainly missed Ishola, who averages 15.8 points a game and a conference-best 8.7 rebounds a contest. But credit also goes to a spirited and hungry Hawk squad, who scored 58 points in the second half and had five players notch double figure scoring numbers.

Parker Farris led the Vulcans with 28 points, while Randan Berinobis had a double-double with 17 points and 11 boards. Darius Johnson-Wilson had 19. Point guard Ryley Callaghan had eight points, nine rebounds and four assists.

Jason Webster led the Hawks, who now have back-to-back wins, with 17 points, 12 of them in the second half. Perry Marcelas had 14 points and nine assists, hitting nine of 12 free throw attempts, many of them in the final moments. Jewels Sanders had 15 points, all in the second half.

This was one that got away from the hosts.

The Vulcans led for all but 24 seconds in the first half, thanks to sizzling marksmanship at the free throw line. The home team hit all 16 of their charity attempts in the first 20 minutes, including seven-for-seven work by Berinobis.

The junior forward had six of those during a six-minute stretch early in the half. His trey with 11:25 to go before intermission gave the Vulcans a 16-8 lead. A pair of Farris free throw made it 18-8, but every  time UHH would make a run, the Hawks would answer with one of its own.

Still, the Vuls would push the margin to ten again on an inside basket by Arnold Silva, and Berinobis' three-point play with 1:36 remaining put UHH up at the break, 37-31. Farris and Berinobis both had 12 points at halftime.

UHH would go on to hit their first 20 free throws of the night, but the story early in the second half became Hawk freshman Jewels Sanders. The 6-5 guard, who didn't have any points in the first half, had ten points in the first six minutes of the second half. Sanders tied the game at 48-48 and then gave his team the lead on a three-point play at the 14:19 mark (51-49).

Improbable as it seemed at the time, the Hawks would never trail again. Another Sanders three-point play gave the Hawks a 65-58 lead with 9:18 left, and UHH would get no closer than three points the rest of the way, although a Barnobis three-pointer with 18 seconds left would pull UHH to within four points.
 
The Vulcans return to the court Saturday afternoon when they take on first-place and No. 14 nationally ranked Hawai`i Pacific. Start time at the Civic Auditorium will be 3 p.m.