SAN DIEGO, Calif.—It's over.

The hush-hush, we never talk about it, nation's longest streak of non-winning seasons, is no longer. Hawai`i Hilo clinched a winning season and also won its 13^th consecutive game with a 1-0 victory over host Point Loma in the opening game of a four-game set at Carroll B. Land Stadium on Friday.

UH Hilo's last winning season on the baseball field was in 1992, when the Vulcans went 20-16. That's 27 years.

The Vulcans rode the arm of Dylan Spain to the 1-0 win and streak stopper against the No. 2 ranked team in the West Region. That victory momentarily moved the Vulcans into sole possession of second place in the Pacific West Conference. Point Loma's 7-3 win in game two put the two teams back into a virtual tie for second heading into Saturday's doubleheader.

The Vulcans are now 19-11 in the PacWest and 23-16 overall. Point Loma is 28-15 on the year and 16-9 in conference play. PLNU's winning percentage in the PWC is .640, UH Hilo's is .633.

Spain, a 6-foot-5 junior right-hander, pitched a gem in the first game, and the Vulcans and Sea Lions were going toe-to-toe in the second contest before the wheels came off late in the game for the Vulcans.

Spain pitched a three-hit shutout, giving up two infield singles and one other base hit. He walked just one batter and struck out one. He shut down one of the region's top teams on 113 pitches in improving to 5-1 on the year.

It was the first time all season that Point Loma has been shut out.

Spain was in very little trouble all day long. He didn't allow a runner past second base. UH Hilo wasn't having much success either against the Sea Lions' Zack Noll, but they scratched across a run in the fifth on Casey Yamauchi's RBI single during an inning when the Vulcans got hits from Rustin Ho and Dylan Sugimoto.

The rest was left to Spain, who used a double play in the eighth and worked around an error in the ninth to get the win.

In the second game, the Vulcans looked to be heading towards a similar-type victory, as starting pitcher Kyle Alcorn didn't give up a run through the first six innings. Meanwhile, the Vulcans took a 1-0 lead in the third inning when Sugimoto's ground ball scored Nick Lugo, who had reached via an error.

But things came undone for UHH in the seventh. Alcorn, who only allowed two hits, three walks and he fanned two, came out and the normally reliable Brandyn Lee-Lehano entered. A hit batter, a walk, a double and two-run homer by Jason Ledgerwood gave Point Loma a 4-1 lead, and they would add three more runs in the eighth on three hits and a Vulcan error against Lee-Lehano and John Kea.

It was the first loss of the year for Lee-Lehano (5-1). The Vulcans didn't muster up much offense against PLNU's Nathan Garko, who improved to 6-2 and allowed only two hits in seven innings.

Yamauchi, the freshman second baseman, had a stellar day for UHH at the plate with three hits in the first game and two of UH Hilo's five base knocks in the second, for a 5-for-6 day. Sugimoto drove in two runs in the second game.

Saturday's doubleheader is scheduled to begin at noon (Pacific time). Those two games are the final PacWest games of the year for the Vulcans, who will then wrap up the regular season May 1-3 with non-conference games at Biola.