The Hawaii softball team experienced a rainout and an abbreviated Big West series for the second straight weekend.

UH also might have been dealt a problematic injury.

Senior star second baseman Maya Nakamura left the second game of Saturday’s doubleheader against Cal Poly with left knee trouble as she attempted to cover first base in the top of the first inning.

After multiple rain delays, the Mustangs would go on to win the game 6-5 and salvage a split on the day. UH won Friday’s series opener 3-2 after it was resumed Saturday morning. The third game of the series was canceled.

Nakamura, a first-team All-Big West performer last season, was moving around on crutches with her left knee wrapped after Saturday’s second game. She hit her team-high-tying seventh homer of the season in the first game.

The Spectrum Sports crew asked coach Bob Coolen after the doubleheader if he had an update on the senior.

“Nope. Maya is Maya. She’s all wrapped up,” Coolen said. “All I know is she’s getting an MRI tomorrow.”

After the Roosevelt alumna exited, freshman Madixx Muramoto out of Kalani came on and in the third hit her first career home run, a three-run shot that tied the game at 3.

“Madixx had a game,” Coolen said. “I told her move up in the box, crowd it, see the ball early. You got the power. No one believes us, but she does have the power and did a nice job, and made some great plays in the field.”

Cal Poly (18-12, 8-3) built a 6-3 lead on UH second-day pitcher Key-annah Campbell-Pua, started by a two-run homer by Waipahu native and Iolani School graduate Kai Barrett. Chloe Borges threw 3 1/3 scoreless innings to give the Wahine a chance down the stretch; UH first baseman Dallas Millwood hit a two-run single to left in the fifth, but the Wahine went down in order in the sixth and seventh.

Ace Addison Kostrencich went the distance in Game 1 spread over the two days with a four-hitter that included two solo home runs by national batting average leader Jessica Clements (.510).

UH (13-18, 6-4 Big West) is in fourth place with five series remaining. The Wahine head to UC Riverside (10-21, 4-7) next weekend.

Brian McInnis covers the state's sports scene for Spectrum News Hawaii. He can be reached at brian.mcinnis@charter.com.