St. George, UT (March 26, 2012) – After playing the first 22 games of the season at home, the Hawai'i Pacific baseball team (17-7, 9-5) played on the road for the first time this season and lost a doubleheader to Dixie State College (20-8, 16-6). HPU couldn't recover from an early hole and lost game one 8-4, and gave up a run late to lose game two 5-4.  
 
Game one starter Cory Yuh just lasted just one and a third innings and gave up seven runs. Reliever Nolan Hoppie pitched well, giving up one run in six and two-thirds innings, but the damage had been done. Trailing 8-0, HPU scored three times in the fifth and again in the eighth to make it interesting.

After Blake Amaral was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded to give HPU its first run, Keanu Kapana singled up the middle to score a pair of runs. In the eighth, Kale Sumner hit his second home run of the season to close the scoring in the contest.

Amaral and Troy Ajer each had two hit games to lead the Sea Warriors.

Game two saw HPU fall behind 3-0 in the first inning, by the fourth it was 4-0 Dixie State. HPU trimmed the deficit to two runs after RBI from Derek Nakasato and Ajer in the fifth. The Sea Warriors would tie the game in the sixth on back-to-back RBI hits from Justin Winters and Wade Tamaru. The Red Storm, however, would score in the bottom of the sixth to regain the lead and then set down HPU in order in the seventh for the win.

Winters and Tamaru both had multi-hit games.

The teams will play another doubleheader tomorrow at 4 PM in St. George.