Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 HILO, HI (April 25, 2015) – Hawai'i Pacific (24-21-1, 14-15-1) and UH Hilo (31-16-1, 20-10-1) played 16 innings of softball on Saturday and only one game was decided. The host Vulcans won game one 4-2 in 10 innings and then game two was called in the ninth inning due to darkness with the score tied at five.

The opener was a pitcher's duel with both Kristen Caskey and Vanessa Salinas going the distance, each only surrendered six hits.

UH Hilo, ranked eighth in the region, got on the board first with a tally in the third inning.

The Sharks tied the game in the sixth when Kiana Wolfe doubled to right to score Mari Kajiwara. Later in the inning, HPU took the lead when UHH's shortstop committed two errors on the same play allowing Wolfe to scamper home. A solo blast from UH Hilo in the bottom of the frame tied the game at two.

The game went extra frames and HPU threatened with two hits in the eighth and another in the ninth but could not score. In the 10th, the Vulcans again used the long ball to win the game.  

In game two, Carolann Toyama was responsible for the first two HPU runs. In the third, she got hung up in a pickle long enough to let Sharae Esprecion race home. In the fourth, she singled home Esprecion.

The Vulcans got a run back in the fourth inning on a solo home run to make it 2-1.

HPU answered with a two-run home run in the fifth from Paige Crawford. Later Esprecion doubled to right center to score Britney Stevens making it 5-1.

However, UHH tied the game with a run in fifth, another in the sixth, and two more in the seventh.

Neither team could break through over the next two innings and the game was called at 6:38pm in the ninth inning.