Tyler Brashears brought a little extra to the mound a night after watching the top collegiate pitching prospect in the country.

The Hawaii right-hander combined with Quintin Torres-Costa on a four-hit shutout and Kaeo Aliviado broke a seven-game hitless streak with an RBI single for the only run in a 1-0 UH victory over No. 8 UC Santa Barbara on Saturday night at Les Murakami Stadium.

Torres-Costa worked out of a ninth-inning jam to earn his fourth save for Hawaii (15-25, 6-8 Big West), which has a chance Sunday to win a series against the Gauchos (30-10, 7-4) for the third consecutive year.

"Great performance," said Brashears (6-4), who lowered his ERA to 1.97 over 73 innings. "I think that was the best I’ve thrown all year. I was getting ahead of hitters and locating my fastball was the big key today."

With 2,539 in attendance, Brashears touched 93 on the radar gun a night after UCSB’s top prospect, Dillon Tate, hit 98.

Brashears worked out of a bases-loaded jam with one out in the sixth and needed only 94 pitches to give Hawaii 72⁄3 innings of three-hit ball before giving way to UH’s closer.

Torres-Costa gave up a leadoff single and hit a batter in the ninth, but struck out pinch hitter Scott Quinlan for the second out and got Clay Fisher to fly out to center to end it.

"It was important to come out and pitch that kind of game, particularly when you do it against a guy like (UCSB starter Justin) Jacome, who except for Dillon Tate would be anybody’s Friday guy in the country," Hawaii coach Mike Trapasso said. "Tyler delivered and we had the hot hand with ‘Q’ in the bullpen and he made some good pitches."

Brashears has allowed one earned run or none in seven of his past eight starts and is one of five starters in the Big West with an ERA under 2.00.

He gave up leadoff singles in the second and fourth innings and the Gauchos loaded the bases without a hit in the sixth.

Third baseman JJ Kitaoka committed an error for the third straight game and a four-pitch walk to Andrew Calica was the only free pass allowed by Brashears.

Robby Nesovic, UCSB’s cleanup hitter, hit a bases-loaded grounder to third that Kitaoka made a diving stop on and threw quick to home to get the lead runner by a step.

Brashears then got Cameron Newell to hit into a fielder’s choice at second.

"In this league in particular, when every night you might be facing a pitcher that might be drafted in the top five rounds, you’re going to have to be able to go out there and put up zeros or one at the most and he’s been doing that," Trapasso said of his starter. "It was great to see JJ redeem himself with the play of the game to save a run and (Brashears) needed to make a lot of good pitches and get the play behind him. It was a pretty intense inning."

Torres-Costa nailed down his third save in two weeks and extended his scoreless-innings streak to 151⁄3 over nine outings.

"The way I approach it is (UCSB) is a regular team and they’re all the same people and I have to go out there and do my job," Torres-Costa said. "I didn’t feel like I had all of my stuff today, but I had to get that win."

Hawaii’s only run came in the sixth inning when Aliviado broke out of an 0-for-22 skid.

Second baseman Stephen Ventimilia singled with one out and stole second after Alan Baldwin flied out to left.

Aliviado then hit the very next pitch in the hole between first and second and Ventimilia raced around third with his speed and scored easily.

"I wanted to come up big for the team," Aliviado said. "We grinded it out today and we needed it."

Aliviado squeezed the final out of the game running in from center on a shallow fly off the bat of Fisher.

"I thought it was going to drop, but it held up," Aliviado said. "I tried to get there as fast as I could and we got the out."

Jacome went the distance in the loss to drop to 6-2 overall and gave up five hits with no walks and seven strikeouts.

Fifth-year senior Jarrett Arakawa (2-2, 3.26 ERA) will get the start Sunday for the ‘Bows.