With the win, the Rainbows (32-23 overall, 10-13 WAC) have clinched the fifth seed for this weeks' WAC tournament. They will open with second-seeded Nevada on Thursday. The top-seeded Bulldogs (32-26, 17-6) will open with sixth-seeded Sacramento State.

Rodrigues (9-3) did not allow a walk and didn't strikeout anyone before giving way to Matt Daly, who was originally today's scheduled starter. Daly went 2 2/3 innings, giving up four runs. Josh Schneider allowed two runs in one inning. Nick Rhodes struck out the last batter of the game for his first save.

The Rainbows took the lead first in the fourth against Tanner Scheppers. Kevin Macdonald and Brandon Haislet each singled to put runners at first and second. Both advanced on Nate Young's sacrifice and scored Landon Hernandez's double to left to give UH a 2-0 lead. Matt Roquemore walked before Jon Hee lined out to right. Derek DuPree then hit a flare double to right to score Hernandez. Roquemore then scored on right fielder Ozzie Lewis' throwing error to second that also allowed DuPree to take third to make it 4-0.

Hawai'i scored again in the seventh, this time against FSU's second reliever, Sean Bonesteele. Kris Sanchez led off with a walk, took second on Kevin Macdonald's sacrifice and scored on a wild pitch from second base to make it 5-0 before Brandon Haislet flied out to left.

The Bulldogs got on the board in the eighth. Gavin Hedstrom led off with a double against Daly before Ryan Overland flied out to center and Tommy Mendonca lined out to second. Erik Wetzel then singled up the middle to score Hedstrom to make it 5-1. Loren Storey walked to move Wetzel to second and Steve Detwiler walked to load the bases. Steve Susdorf's single right scored another run and reloaded the bases. Daly was pulled for Josh Schneider. Ozzie Lewis's two-run single sent Susdorf to second and pulled FSU to 5-4. But Schneider struck out Alan Ahmady to end the inning.

The Rainbows added insurance in the eighth. Landon Hernandez reached on a bad-hop single over third and took second when Roquemore reached on an fielding error by the pitch on a sacrifice. Both advanced on Jon Hee's sacrifice. Jake Hower was then replaced by Brandon Miller to face pinch hitter Vinnie Catricala. With the infield playing in, Catricala grounded out to short, as the runners held. But Frash's flare single to center scored both runners to increase UH's lead to 7-4. Sanchez was hit by a pitch to put runners at first and second. But Macdonald lined out to second to end the inning.