KEAAU, Hawai`i.—Fabian Lueders picked an opportune time to score his first two goals of the season, helping visiting Point Loma defeat Hawai`i Hilo 3-2 on Tuesday night during a driving rain storm at Paiea Stadium.

The match was delayed in the 68^th minute after the field was deemed too wet to continue safe play. The match resumed ten minutes later.

Point Loma improved to 10-5-1 on the season with the win, and remains in second place in the Pacific West Conference at 6-2-1. The Vulcans fell to 3-10 overall and to 2-6 in conference.

Hawai`i Hilo, on Senior Night, had too much to overcome between Lueders, the weather and playing down a man most of the match. But they still made the match very interesting during a wild second half.

Point Loma played ball control in the early going and then got their first breakaway opportunity just past the ten minute mark. A Sea Lion player was tackled in the box, resulting in a penalty kick opportunity—and suffered a bigger penalty when senior Jack Stonehouse was issued a red card on the play.

Despite playing with just ten players, the Vulcans responded quickly on the offensive end. Pedro Werneck fired a shot that had to be saved by PLNU keeper Wiktor Lasota in the 12^th minute, and three minutes later a UHH player was tripped up just outside the box, sending Vulcan Matt Wilkinson to the PK spot. There, Wilkinson converted for his eighth goal of the season, four-for-four on penalty kicks.

The rest of the half was busy for both keepers, as the Sea Lions fired seven total shots at Vulcan Selvin Sandoval, who had five saves in the first 45 minutes. Sandoval was replacing senior Nick Williams, who sat out the match with an injury. UHH's Jorge Martinez fired a bullet at PLNU keeper Lasota, who used all of his 6-4 frame to punch the ball out of the net in the 22^nd minute.

The Sea Lions actually scored with 20 seconds left in the half but were ruled offsides.

The second half began in a downpour and it didn't let up the entire 45 minutes.

In the 57 minute, the Sea Lions broke through. On a free kick, just two yards inside the end line on the far left corner of the field, Lueders fired a banana shot into the right top hand corner of the net over a leaping Sandoval.

PLNU would add the clincher in the 67^th minute when Parker Scalzo dribbled past defenders and pushed a shot into the net, his fifth goal of the season. The rain delay followed.

After the rain delay, Point Loma continued applying pressure but Sandoval and the Vulcan defense managed to keep the margin at two, which would turn out to be a good thing when UH Hilo added another penalty kick score, again from Wilkinson in the 85^th minute—his ninth goal, one shy of the school record set in 2007 by Dustin Daley.

UHH had one more solid opportunity on a long shot by Alen Acosta, but it was saved by Lasota.

Meanwhile, the freshman goalkeeper Sandoval finished with ten saves in the match, the second highest total for a Vulcan this season.

Point Loma finished the night with 19 shots, 13 of them on goal. The Vulcans had nine shots, seven of them on goal. Lasota had six saves for the Sea Lions. Point Loma had six corner kicks to UH Hilo's one.

The Vulcans will now head out on the road for their final three matches of the season, beginning with an October 29 match at Dominican.