The Rainbow Wāhine Softball team kept their momentum going from Friday night's 11-2 win over the Cal State Northridge Matadors with a doubleheader sweep over Northridge, 5-4, and, 4-1, on Saturday.

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Game #1: 5-4 UH
 

It was scoreless through the first three-and-a-half innings, but UH broke the game wide open when Maya Nakamura belted a solo home run to put UH on the board. Chloe Borges got in the spirit and blasted a solo homer herself. Kaʻena Keliinoi topped them with a triple home run that drove in Maycen Gibbs and Mya'Liah Bethea to make it 5-0 UH immediately.

"It felt amazing," Borges said of her solo home run.

After a scoreless fifth inning, Northridge came to life in the top of the sixth. It started with an RBI walk from Carys Murakami that allowed Raegan Jackson to score. Mia Cortez added an RBI single that allowed Alexa Landeros to score. Shaylan Whatman then hit an RBI single that allowed two more runs from Murakami and Kennedy Gustin to make it 5-4 UH.

Neither Northridge nor UH could put up another run, and that’s how it ended up.

Game #2: 4-1 UH

UH got on the board first after a scoreless first inning. Haley Johnson took the honors with a Borges RBI single to make it 1-0 UH.

After a scoreless third inning, UH added another run via Nakamura from a Gibbs RBI single. It was 2-0 UH after four innings.

Northridge’s Makenzie San Pedro led off the fifth with a solo home run to put them on the board. They then loaded the bases, but UH swapped pitchers with Borges from Key-annah Campbell-Pua. Because of that, UH got out of that jam with a clutch strikeout on Northridge’s Moani Ioane.

Borges answered the bell in the bottom of the sixth with a two-run home run that drove in Dallas Millwood. Just like that, UH had some breathing room, 4-1.

Northridge had no answer in the seventh and that was all she wrote.

Hawaiʻi improves to 4-2 in Big West play and 11-16 overall with the 3-0 sweep over Northridge, who fall to 0-6 in Big West play and 16-13 overall. This is also UH's first season sweep since May 2022 against Cal State Fullerton at home.

"We definitely have been practicing super hard for this," Borges said of the sweep. "We got 'em Freshman year; last year, we struggled."

UH will hit the road for a three-game series against the UC San Diego Tritons on Friday, Mar. 29 in a doubleheader at 12 noon and 2 p.m. HST, and in a single game on Saturday, Mar. 30 at 10 a.m. HST.