WAIPAHU, Hawai'i — Hawai'i Pacific University opened a five-game series with a doubleheader split with University of the Sciences of Philadelphia on Friday at Hans L'Orange Park.
 
The Sharks (5-2) won game one 7-1, while the Devils (1-1) won the seven-inning second game 3-1 to open the season.
 
"We came out strong in the first game behind a solid pitching performance by William Clements," said HPU head coach Garett Yukumoto. "But in the second game we made mistakes and compounded them with more mistakes. That cost us."
 
Clements, the 6-2 junior righthanded pitcher from Tempe, Ariz./Corona Del Sol, went the distance in winning game one scattering five hits while allowing one run and striking out three. Clements allowed only one walk as he threw 93 pitches in nine innings.
 
Designated hitter Cody Santana, a 6-1 junior from Oxnard, Calif./St. Bonaventure, went 3-for-6 with a run scored, while second baseman Trey Yukumoto, a 5-9 redshirt freshman from Waipahu, Hawai'i/Leilehua, was 2-for-6 with a triple, an RBI and two runs scored to highlight the Sharks offense.
 
The teams play again on Saturday with a doubleheader slated for 2 p.m. at Hans L'Orange Park.
 
Game One
 
The Sharks got one run in the third and six in the fourth as they opened the series with a 6-1 win.
 
Yukumoto got a one-out triple in the third and scored on Tanner Tokunaga's ground out to short to give HPU a 1-0 lead.
 
HPU took advantage of two wild pitches and three errors by USciences to along with six hits to plate six runs in the fourth inning. An RBI double by Jordan Mopas and a RBI singles by Yukumoto and Wyatt Hoppie helped explode the inning for the Sharks.
 
USciences broke the shutout in the top of the sixth when Christian DeLuca led off the inning with a double, then scored on a one-out RBI single by Justin Skinner. The Devils had the bases loaded, but pinch hitter Derek DeMaria lined into a double play to end the inning.
 
Clement pitched a 1-2-3 inning in the seventh for the complete game win, his first of the season.
 
Game Two
 
The teams were scoreless until the top of the fourth inning when USciences plated all three of their runs.
 
HPU allowed two on after a single then an error and the pair scored on Nate Steele's double to the gap in left center, then DeLuca followed with an RBI single to score Steele.
 
The Sharks plated a run in the bottom of the sixth when Keola Himan reached on an error, then scored on Matthew Tsutomi's two-out RBI double to the gap in left center. But the Sharks couldn't add a second run.
 
UScience's Kris Morgenweck got the win going 6.0 innings with four hits and an unearned run as he struck out eight Sharks. Ryan Johnson came on in the seventh for the save.
 
HPU's Matthew Gunter evened his record to 1-1, going 4.1 innings allowing six hits and three runs, two earned. He also struck out six Devils. Evan-Thomas May relieved for HPU, with 2.2 hitless innings and two strikeouts.