During a season that has produced one piece of bad news after another, Hawaii Hilo basketball coach GE Coleman finally got some good news on Thursday night at the Afook-Chinen Civic Auditorium.

21 pieces of good news, to be exact.

Coleman's Hawaii Hilo team connected on a school record 21 three-pointers in route to a satisfying 98-85 revenge win over Fresno Pacific. Six different players bombed in shots from beyond the arch, breaking the previous record of 17 set two seasons ago at Point Loma. UH Hilo, which had only nine players in uniform, took only 32 shots to reach 21 makes, a sizzling percentage of 66 percent.

This came on a night when UHH's leading three-pointer shooter, Trey Ingram, was sidelined—and will now be for the rest of the season.

A pair of freshman, Will Burghardt and Cleo Cain, led the Vulcans with 23 points each, both career highs. Burghardt hit seven-of-ten treys, the third best total in school history. Cain hit four-of-five from downtown and knocked down 9-of-14 shots overall from the field.

Ryley Callaghan finished with 21 points, swishing five-of-six treys. The senior guard also had a career-high 11 assists.

The 21 three-pointers helped overcome a sloppy night of 20 turnovers, during a game that featured a first half scrum that saw two players ejected.

"We won't win another game with 20 turnovers, of course unless we hit 21 three-pointers," Coleman joked after the game. "Our guys really stepped up tonight. To have two freshman, who hardly played at the beginning of the year, step in when called upon and score 23 each, was huge for us."

The win snapped a six-game losing streak for the Vulcans, allowing them to improve to 4-7 in the Pacific West Conference and to 5-13 overall. One of the losses during the skid was to these same Sunbirds, who lost their fifth straight tonight to drop to 3-12 in the PacWest and to 5-18 overall. Just three weeks ago, FPU hit the century mark with a 105-92 win over the Vulcans.

The teams traded leads early in the first half until Burghardt, a 5-10 lefty, came off the bench and started dropping down three's. He nailed five three balls in 11 minutes of first half action, including one right before the halftime buzzer to send his team to the locker room with a 50-41 lead. The Vulcans flipped in 12 treys in the first half (12-of-19), with five from Burghardt, three from Callaghan, two from Randan Berinobis and one each from Cain and Maikai Gahan.

With five minutes left before the break, a scrum in the middle of the key on the FPU end of the court resulted in Berinobis getting ejected (for leaving the bench), along with Fresno's Aamondae Coleman. That left UHH with just eight total players in uniform, and six in street clothes on the bench.

Burghardt did not cool off during intermission. He rained down another bomb to start the second half, and soon after Jared Roffler joined the three-point parade to make it 58-47. More three's followed by Cain, Burghardt and Callaghan, and soon UH Hilo had pushed their lead to 18 points (71-53).

The Sunbirds would make one run late in the contest to cut the margin to seven points (89-81), but Callaghan answered with another long ball to put the game back out of reach.

The stat sheet was a keeper for Coleman and the team. Roffler, another player that has only seen playing time since the turn of the 2018 calendar, had an impressive eight points, 11 rebounds and six assists. Anthony Canencia had nine points, a season high for him.

Sam Burt led Fresno Pacific with 22 points and nine rebounds before fouling out late in the game.

"It was a much needed win," Coleman said. "Both teams really wanted this one and it showed. I am really proud of how we stepped up tonight."

In addition to missing Ingram, the Vulcans were also without starter Eric Wattree for the second straight game (illness).

UH Hilo will have less than 48 hours to rest and prepare for Dominican on Saturday night. Start time at the Civic will be 7:30 p.m.