Riverside, CA (April 27, 2012) – The Hawai'i Pacific baseball team (24-19, 16-17) lost a pair of one-run games to California Baptist (38-10, 31-7) on Friday in Southern California. The Sea Warriors lost game one 5-4 and fell in game two 4-3.

Game one featured two big innings and a lot of zeros on the scoreboard. The Sea Warriors put four runs on the board in the third inning on five hits and a CBU error. Keanu Kapana started the scoring with a two-run double that scored Max Newman and Blake Amaral. The next hitter, Troy Ajer, launched a two-run homer to put HPU up 4-0.   

Cal Baptist scored five runs in the bottom of the sixth and made it standup for the win.

HPU outhit CBU 10-7 and both teams committed an error, but HPU's error was much more costly, leading to three unearned runs.

Starter Michael Murray gave up seven hits and five runs (two earned) in seven innings of work. The junior struck out seven and walked three. Nolan Hoppie threw a perfect eighth inning in relief with two strikeouts.

Cal Baptist almost ran away in game two after scoring single runs in the second and third innings, and then two more in the fifth to lead 4-0. HPU fought back in the seventh inning, but couldn't complete the comeback.  HPU plated three runs on RBI from Derek Nakasato and Rylan Morihara. The final run came in on a double play which short circuited the rally.

John Albert started and went 5.1 innings and gave up nine hits and four runs. Sam Cooke pitched a scoreless two-thirds of an inning.

Nakasato, Amaral, Kapana, Morihara, Ajer, and Justin Winters each had two hits in the doubleheader.

HPU and Cal Baptist play another doubleheader at Cal Baptist at 11:00 AM on Saturday.