The streaks took a hit in Hawaii Winter Baseball yesterday at Les Murakami Stadium.

Left-hander Kanehisa Arime saw his consecutive scoreless innings streak snapped, but his eight-inning outing was strong enough to help his Honolulu Sharks snap a five-game losing streak with an 8-1 win in stopping West Oahu's six-game winning streak.

"No pitcher goes without giving up runs, so I don't even think about it," Arime said through an interpreter, after picking up his league-leading third win against no losses.

Arime, who finished his second season in the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles organization in Japan, scattered five hits and walked none, while striking out four in eight innings. He had not allowed a run in his first 26 innings for the Sharks (7-9).

The CaneFires (8-6) finally scored with two outs in the eighth. John Whittleman led off with a double to center on a 3-1 pitch from Arime, the only time he had a three-ball count to the 29 batters he faced.

It looked like Arime would preserve the shutout when he struck out Josh Ford and got Makoto Moriyama to pop out to short. But Sean Kazmar ripped a grounder to the left that went off the glove of shortstop Masaya Ozaki and rolled toward shallow left, allowing Whittleman to score the Sharks' only run.

"It was pretty easy," said Sharks catcher Clint Sammons, an Atlanta Braves farmhand. "When you have a guy like that, all you have to do is put down a finger and watch him go."

Arime threw 84 pitches, 64 for strikes. He threw no more than five pitches to each batter he faced and that happened only twice. Of his 24 outs, 10 were by grounders and six on infield pops.

"He was able to spot his fastball on either side of the plate, whenever he wanted," Sammons said. "It definitely (helped make) his slider and changeup a lot better."

Arime also was backed by strong defense. Third baseman Van Pope made a diving stop of a grounder toward the line and threw out Ford at first in the fifth inning.

David Haehnel finished the game by allowing a lead-off single in the ninth to Mike Stodolka, but stranding him at first by retiring the next three batters, striking two of them out.

Things were just the opposite for CaneFires starter Ian Kennedy (0-1), who lasted just 1 1/3 innings, giving up all eight runs on eight hits and two walks.

Kennedy loaded the bases to start the game with a hit-and-run single sandwiched between two walks. Honolulu scored on successive ground outs by Yoshiyuki Kamei and Pope and then on an RBI single by Eric Nielsen.

The Sharks sent nine batters to the plate in a five-run second. They had five consecutive singles to start the inning to plate three runs before Kamei's sacrifice fly to center ended the hit streak. But Pope followed with an RBI single that led to Kennedy's exit.

Brian Bixler and Pope had two hits and two RBIs apiece for Honolulu. Kamei had two RBIs without the benefit of a hit.

The league takes today off and resumes play tomorrow with a pair of two-game series. The CaneFires will play North Shore at Hans L'Orange Park in 6:30 p.m. contests, while the Sharks play Waikiki at Murakami in games slated for 7 p.m. each night.

Reach Stacy Kaneshiro at skaneshiro@honoluluadvertiser.com.