The season is quickly turning into a repeat of Hawaii’s previous three losing campaigns.

The Rainbow Warriors were held to two hits and wasted a gem by junior Brendan Hornung, whose unearned run allowed in the ninth inning was the difference in a 1-0 loss to Chicago State on Thursday night at Les Murakami Stadium.

Hawaii (6-12), which has dropped six in a row, looked completely out of sorts at the plate against the Cougars (5-10), who had a 5.31 team ERA coming in.

Starter Jake Perkins threw 128 pitches in seven innings and combined with reliever Zach Thomas (2-0) on the shutout despite the pair issuing nine total walks.

Hawaii was 0-for-10 with runners on base and left 12 on in the game before a crowd of 698.

That was an abysmal performance tonight offensively,” Hawaii coach Mike Trapasso said. “That’s just ridiculous, to be honest with you. You’ve got to be better than two hits.”

UH was shut out for the fourth time already this season after getting blanked seven times last year.

Hornung, who is 2-4 this season despite a 2.29 ERA, pitched into the ninth inning for the first time and struck out a career-high eight in 81⁄3 innings.

Chicago State’s only run came off a throwing error by Johnny Weeks at shortstop that allowed Julian Russell to reach base with one out.

Matt Sullivan worked Chicago State’s fifth hit off Hornung into right field, prompting a pitching change.

Cody Culp came in and gave up a single under the glove of Weeks at short by Andy Gertonson to drive in Russell for the only run.

Weeks was playing shortstop in place of senior Jacob Sheldon-Collins, who had the flu and missed his first start in 62 games.

“I’m just proud of our kids because we know the history a little bit (against Hawaii) and I think it does say a lot of good things about our program,” Chicago State coach Steve Joslyn said.

Hawaii had never lost in seven games all-time against the Cougars and had outscored Chicago State 92-10.

With Weeks moving over to short, Hawaii went with freshman Ethan Lopez at third. Josh Rojas, who sat out the last three games, was back at second and again struggled executing at the plate.

A missed bunt in the first inning failed to take advantage of Matt LoCoco reaching base on a wild pitch to lead off.

Lopez tripled with one out in the fifth inning for UH’s second hit and the ’Bows had runners at the corners with one out.

UH tried a squeeze bunt, but Rojas’ attempt never made it more than 10 feet from the plate and he was thrown out at first with Lopez holding at third.

Perkins ended the inning with his fifth strikeout, getting Eric Ramirez to swing through a 3-2 fastball.

“We’re trying to do too much at the plate at once and we’re not having quality at-bats at all,” Lopez said. “(Hornung) busted his tail and we didn’t get him a run of support. That’s something that has to change.”

Perkins issued his fifth and sixth walks of the game with two outs in the seventh inning to load the bases.

Already at 122 pitches, he stayed in to face Ramirez, and earned his seventh strikeout on pitch No. 128 to keep Hawaii off the board.

“That was his last batter,” Joslyn said of his starter. “I felt like he earned (the chance) to get that last batter and when he’s on, he’s a really good pitcher for us.”

Hornung threw 112 pitches — 84 for strikes — and didn’t allow a runner to reach scoring position until the ninth inning.

“It’s a real shame to blow a performance like that from Hornung and get nothing to show from it,” Trapasso said. “We’ve got to be better. Fortunately we’ve got three more and we’ll see if we can get to three hits (today).”