LA MIRADA, Calif.  – Hawai'i Pacific University battled through four sets, including an extended final set, but Biola came out on top 3-1 in PacWest Conference action on Thursday night at Chase Gym.
 
The Sharks (7-18, 5-12) dropped its eighth straight, while the Eagles (20-6, 13-4) won its sixth straight with the 25-23, 22-25, 25-16, 27-25 victory.
 
HPU hit .180 for the match with 6.0 team blocks, while Biola hit .267 with 12.0 team blocks.
 
Freshman Cameryn Collie of El Dorado Hills, Calif./Oak Ridge led all players with 19 kills and double-doubled with 10 digs. Sophomore Perla Escobar of Calexico, Calif./Calexico, posted 15 kills, led HPU with a .297 hitting percentage, and double-doubled with 12 digs. Junior Carson Pyle of Houston, Texas/Memorial, added nine kills with a team-leading four blocks.
 
The Eagles were paced by Sabrina Winslow with 14 kills and four blocks, Bekah Roth with 10 kills and four blocks and Karly Dantuma with nine kills. Sierra Bauder led both teams with seven total blocks.
 
The match was tight in all but the third set as the teams battled it out.
 
The opening set saw Biola go on a 5-0 run early and a 6-0 run later to claim an 18-11 lead. HPU swapped scores with the Eagles who built a 21-16 advantage. That's when the Sharks took advantage of a BU service error to start a 6-1 run that tied the set at 22-22 on a Collie kill. The teams traded points to stay tied at 23, when the Eagles got back-to-back kills from Winslow and Dantuma to take the set 25-23.
 
The Sharks jumped out to the early 8-5 lead in the second set, but the Eagles rattled off a 7-0 run to take a 12-8 lead. HPU swung the pendulum with a 4-1 run before BU added a score to make it a two-point 14-12 Eagle lead. The Sharks got what they needed when a Collie kill started a 5-0 run to put HPU back in front 17-14. Biolan answered with a 4-0 run to go up 18-17, but that would be it. Pyle's kill knotted the set and started a 6-0 run to go up 23-18. HPU got a block from Pyle and Alyson Bruner to lead 24-19, then held on as Biola won three straight points. However, Escobar ended the set with a kill for a 25-22 win.
 
He third set had HPU up 4-3 when Biola scored on three straight Shark errors as part of a 7-0 run as the Eagles took command. The Sharks fought back to be down two at 12-10, but the Eagles used a 4-0 run to start a 7-1 run and the Sharks never recovered. The Eagles feathered out the set to win 25-16.
 
The fourth, and what would be the final set, had more momentum swings than a low-budget movie. The set was tied 11 times with five lead changes, with both teams holding multiple three-point leads. HPU was up 22-19 when the Eagles denied the Sharks bid for the set. The Eagles capitalized on a pair of HPU errors in a 4-0 run to take a 23-22 lead. HPU answered with a kill from Collie and Pyle to grab a 24-23 lead and served for the set. But a service error gave BU the tie, and a Sharks attack error let the Eagles serve for the win at 25-24. Pyle gave HPU a chance with a kill to tie it at 25, but a BU kill from Bauder put the Eagles back up. Then a block from Bauder and Brinley Beresford ended the set and match 27-25.
 
HPU has one more contest on its four-match California road trip when the Sharks travel to San Diego to face Point Loma on Saturday. First serve at Golden Gym has been moved to 3 p.m. HST (5 p.m. PST) because of PLNU's NCAA Division II Men's Soccer Tournament game on Saturday.