Shane Peterson's RBI double with two outs in the top of the 12 to lift No. 10 Long Beach State over Hawai'i, 4-3, tonight in the nonconference series opener at Les Murakami Stadium.

In the top of the 12th, Ted Lemasters led off with a walk against Daly and two outs later, scored on Shane Peterson's double to left-center, by a diving Brandon Haislet, for the go-ahead run against Matt Daly (2-1).

The Dirtbags (7-2) stretched their winning streak to five, while the Rainbows (5-7) have lost four in a row.

Nick Vincent (3-0) pitched two-thirds of an inning of relief and Bryan Shaw allowed a hit in a scoreless 12th for his third save.

Starter Jared Alexander allowed two runs, three hits and six walks with five strikeouts in 7-plus innings for the Rainbows. Jayson Kramer was charged with a run in two-thirds of an inning.

LBSU starter Andrew Liebel went eight innings, allowing three runs, five hits and a walk with nine strikeouts.

The Rainbows escaped a first-and-third jam with one out in the second. Shane Peterson led off with a double to center and Zach Barger struck out. Brandon Godfrey walked on four pitches. With a 1-0 count on Travis Howell, Alexander threw to second on a pick-off throw with Peterson breaking for third. Peterson beat shortstop Greg Garcia's throw to third for a steal to put runners at the corner. Two pitches later with Godfrey breaking with the pitch from first and drawing second baseman Jon Hee toward the bag, Howell hit a grounder up the middle that Hee gloved and turned the inning-ending double play.

Hawai'i broke the scoreless deadlock in the fourth. With two outs, Vinnie Catricala drilled a 3-1 offering from Liebel over the left-center field second wall for his third homer of the season to tive UH a 1-0 lead. It was the first earned run off Liebel through 19 innings this season.

The Rainbows made Liebel pay for his first walk of the game in the sixth. With one down, Jon Hee walked and took second on Derek DuPree's bunt single to third. Brandon Haislet then ripped a two-run double to left-center to increase UH's lead to 3-0.

Alexander got into trouble in the eighth. T.J. Millelstaedt led off with a line single to left-center and took third on pinch hitter Ted Lemasters double to right. Alexander was lifted for Jayson Kramer, who struck out Chris Nelson and Danny Espinosa. But Peterson grounded an RBi single to left that sent Lemasters to third to pull the Dirtbags to 3-1. Kramer then hit pinch hitter Devin Lohman to load the bases. Kramer was pulled for Matt Daly. Pinch hitter John Hill came in and lined a two-run single to right to tie the game at 3. But Lohman was gunned down trying for third to end the inning.