A weary Hawaii volleyball team overcame fatigue and self-inflicted errors for a 26-24, 25-16, 25-23 victory over California Baptist at Van Dyne Gym in Riverside, Calif., on Friday night.

The Rainbow Warriors gave away 35 points on errors, but managed to win for the fourth time in five matches. The Warriors won every set in this Wednesday/Friday series to improve to 9-3 overall and 6-2 in the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation. The Lancers fell to 3-11 an 1-10.

"Really, we looked tired," UH coach Charlie Wade said afterward. "It’s three weeks in a row of Wednesday/Friday (matches), and a full week on the road. We didn’t have much practice. It’s just draining being out on the road this long."

The Warriors did not practice last weekend following a five-set loss to USC. They left town Monday afternoon ahead of Wednesday’s match. The Warriors return to Honolulu today. They play Cal State Northridge this coming Friday.

"We’re finally going to get a nice week of practice," Wade said.

By then, one of their best defensive players — outside hitter Siki Zarkovic — should be healed from a sprained ankle that kept him out of the past four matches. His replacement, Scott Hartley, pounded a match-high 12 kills, hit .409 and collaborated with middle Taylor Averill on the aloha-ball block. Zarkovic, Hartley and Kupono Fey, a primary passer, give the Warriors at least three possibilities for the two left-side positions.

"It’s nice to have more options," Wade said. "We have guys who have experience with live league play. That’s only going to help us moving forward."

The Warriors rallied to win the first set, then dominated the second. In the third, the Lancers emerged from a timeout to score consecutive points to tie it at 23.

But opposite Brook Sedore, who had cooled after four consecutive torrid matches, reignited for a crossing-kill of a D set.

Then Hartley and Averill combined for the last of the Warriors’ 12.5 blocks.

"I thought we played good at the end of sets 1 and 3 when we needed to," Wade said.

Indeed, the Warriors committed seven of their 16 service errors in the first set. "Which is just neurotic," Wade said. "We settled out, and we were better."

Wade made several moves, including a double switch in which backup setter Alex Jones played a back-row rotation in place of Sedore.

"We tried to give it a different look," Wade said.

The Lancers also sought answers to their hitting woes. Roy Powell pounded a team-high nine kills, but Giovanni Llinas-Rosa, Enrique Garcia and Jonathan Tuttle each had more errors than kills. Setter Cody Jackson moved to outside hitter to provide an offensive oomph.

The Lancers committed 21 attack errors, hit .073 and couldn’t avoid UH libero Kolby Kanetake, who had 10 digs.

Friday

Hawaii def. Cal Baptist 26-24, 25-16, 25-23

UC Irvine def. Stanford 25-15, 25-23, 25-11

UC Santa Barbara def. UCLA 25-20, 25-21, 26-24

Pepperdine def. UC San Diego 25-17, 25-10, 25-18

Long Beach State def. CSUN 26-24, 28-26, 25-11

USC def. BYU 20-25, 21-25, 25-16, 25-23, 16-14

Saturday

Stanford at UC San Diego

Pepperdine at UC Irvine

No. 6 Hawaii Def. Cal Baptist 26-24, 25-16, 25-23

Key — s: games; k: kills; e: hitting errors; att: attempts; pct: hitting percentage; d: digs; bs: block solo; ba: block assists; pts: points (kills plus blocks plus aces). Service Aces — Hawaii 4 (Hartley 2, Francsikovic, Fey). Cal Baptist 2 (Powell 2). Service errors — Hawaii 16 (Sedore 6, Franciskovic 4, Hartley 3, Averill 3). Cal Baptist 11 (Miller 3, Garcia 3, Jackson 2, Melcher, LlinasRosa, Tuttle). Assists — Hawaii 37 (Franciskovic 30, Hartley 2, Kanetake 2, Jones 2, Sedore). Cal Baptist 25 (Melcher 23, LlinasRosa, DeLyon). T — 1:34. Referees — Scott Hogue, Lydia Godshall.  A — 238.