Box Score TURLOCK, Calif.—Billi Derleth picked up the win in the pitcher's circle and Chloe Domingo had a big two-run single helping the Hawai`i Hilo softball team snap a three-game losing streak, defeating Humboldt State on Sunday morning at the Tournament of Champions, 3-1.

The Vulcans leave the central California valley at 2-3 in the tournament and 23-14 on the year. Humboldt State is now 11-21.

Derleth saw her first pitching circle action of the tournament and she stepped up big. She improved to 3-2 on the year with the win, allowing just five hits in 6.1 innings, no earned runs, three walks and three strikeouts.

Isabelle Mejia came out of the bullpen to get the final two outs in the seventh, with two runners on base for her first save of the year.

The Vulcans gave Derleth the run support she needed with one unearned run in the first and two more in the fourth. In the fourth, Rayla Jacobs-Kea led off the rally with a triple to right field, and Maria Steadmon became a base runner after being hit by a pitch and then stealing second. Domingo followed with a two-run single to chase home Jacobs-Kea and Steadmon to give put the Vulcans up, 3-0.

The Lumberjacks got one run back in the bottom of the fourth, helped by two Vulcan errors. Meanwhile, Derleth continued to work out of any trouble that she got in to, including in the fifth when an HSU single and walk led to a stolen base attempt at home, that the Vulcans snuffed out—until the seventh when she needed Mejia's help.

Mejia and Vevesi Liilii each had a pair of hits in the game for UHH, who had six total. One of Mejia's hits was a two-bagger.

Having been on the road since March 19, the Vulcans now return home to face Hawai`i Pacific in a key PacWest doubleheader on Saturday (April 6). Start time is noon.