The UC Davis baseball team denied Hawaii a grand finale.

The Aggies amassed 16 hits against five pitchers and scored in six of eight innings en route to Sunday’s 10-3 victory at Dobbins Stadium in Davis, Calif.

The Rainbow Warriors won on Thursday and Saturday, but had no answers in the finale of this three-game Big West series.

“We spent the entire day putting the ball on a tee about belt-high for their entire team,” UH coach Mike Trapasso said in a postgame phone interview. “Every (pitcher) we went to threw nothing but belt-high right down the middle. That’s what a good-hitting team is going to do.”

Freshman shortstop Tanner Murray went 5-for-5, scored three runs, drove in three more, and made two dazzling stops. Second baseman Caleb Van Blake was 4-for-4 with three runs, and Ryan Hooper contributed three hits.

“I don’t mind getting beat — and they flat-out beat us today — but I don’t like not playing well and I don’t like not pitching well,” Trapasso said. “You have to give yourself a chance.”

The ’Bows entered averaging 13.6 hits in their five Big West games. But they managed nine hits, with three in a scoreless ninth inning.

UH starting pitcher Logan Pouelsen allowed nine hits before exiting with a 4-3 deficit after 41⁄3 innings.

“Initially, he was keeping us in the game because he wasn’t walking anybody,” Trapasso said. “That was the key. He was getting hit hard, and he was giving up runs. But he was giving up one run an inning. But at the time, we were scoring. I thought we’d keep scoring. But obviously, I was wrong. It was very disappointing.”

The ’Bows did not score in the final six innings, stranding six runners, including three in the ninth. Kyle Hatton surrendered two runs in 11⁄3 innings and Jeremy Yelland was battered for four runs in one inning.

“Yelland is struggling right now,” said Trapasso, referring to the left-hander’s 20.93 earned-run average and 3.72 WHIP in the past three appearances. “He’s pitching like a freshman. He’s hit that proverbial freshman wall. He has to work through it. Everybody goes through it.”

A bright spot was the return of third baseman Ethan Lopez, who had missed 14 games after suffering a wrist injury from a moped malfunction. Lopez smacked the first pitch over the left-field wall for a two-run homer in the second inning. He finished 2-for-4.

“That’ll give us a boost,” Trapasso said of Lopez’s presence in the lineup. “We’ll need him. If we continue to pitch poorly, we’ll have to score more runs than we did today.”

The initial plan called for Lopez to face live pitching in practices this coming week ahead of the weekend home series against UC Riverside. But Lopez said he felt healthy, a diagnosis confirmed by the team trainer, Trapasso said.

The ’Bows went 4-3 on their seven-game, 14-day road trip. They are 18-11 overall and 4-2 in the Big West, having won series against UC Davis and UC Irvine. UC Davis improved to 9-17 and 2-4.

But what was a good trip could have been better. The ’Bows are scheduled to return to Honolulu today.

“The sad thing is it’s going to be a grumpy flight home for the coach,” Trapasso said. “The kids are fine. The coach will be in a bad mood on the flight home.”