WAIPAHU, Hawai'i -- Hawai'i Pacific University closed the season with a win and a tie in non-conference play against neighbor island foe Hawai'i-Hilo Sunday at Hans L'Orange Park.
 
The Sharks (20-28-2) beat the Vulcans (8-31-1) 9-7 in the first game and the teams tied 5-5 after eight innings in the scheduled seven inning second game when a travel curfew ended the contest.
 
HPU used a five-run fourth inning to rally from a 4-1 deficit to win the first game and got pinch hit RBI double from junior Ryan Torres-Torioka of Holualoa, Hawai'i/Konawaena to tie game two in the seventh inning.
 
Junior Codi Santana of Oxnard, Calif./St. Bonaventure HS, led the Sharks offensively, going 4-for-9 with four RBI for the afternoon. Senior Will Leskovec of Kapolei, Hawai'i/Kapolei, went 3-for-4 with a double and an RBI in his final collegiate contest in game two.
 
Junior righthander Ryan Sanchez of Atwater, Calif./Atwater (1-0) picked up his first win of the season with four strikeouts in game one.
 
Game One
 
The Sharks fell behind 4-1 after the first two innings before collecting five runs in the fourth to take the lead and adding three more before holding on for a 9-7 victory.
 
The Vulcans scored two in the first on RBI singles by Jacob Grijalva and Austin Forney, then plated two more in the second on an error and a double play that drove in a fourth run.
 
HPU collected a single run in the bottom of the first on Wyatt Hoppie's RBI grounder.
 
But it was the fourth inning where the Sharks took the lead they wouldn't relinquish. Santana singled up the middle and Hoppie reached on an error. The duo moved up on a wild pitch, and Mitchell Bumann was hit by a pitch to load the bases. Matthew Tsutomi grounded to short that drove in Santana, but an error allowed Tsutomi to reach and kept the bases loaded. After a non-scoring flyout, Robert Fram reached on an error that drove in Hoppie and keep the bases juiced. After a strikeout, UHH pitcher Thomas Warren balked in Bumann, then walked Tokunaga to reload the bases before being lifted for reliever Cole Nakachi. Torres-Torioka laced an RBI single to take a 5-4 lead, and Santana's walk gave the Sharks a 6-4 advantage.
 
HPU added a run in the sixth on an RBI fielder's choice by Santana to go up 7-4.
 
But the Vulcans tried a comeback with two runs in the seventh on a two RBI double down the left field line by Grijalva to within a run at 7-6. However the Sharks answered with a pair of runs in the seventh as HPU put singles by Froy Smith and Tsutomi set up Fram's RBI single and Austin Inabata pulled off a sacrifice bunt to plate Smith to push the lead to 9-6.
 
The Vulcans scored one in the eighth on a sacrifice fly by Phillip Steering, but could do no more.
 
Tyler Hazlett came in to pitch the ninth and gave up a hit, but the Sharks ended the game on a strikeout, throw out double play to give Hazlett his first save.
 
Game Two
 
The Sharks gave up four runs in the second and played from behind the entire game until Torres-Torioka's double in the seventh that tied the game.
 
The Vulcans opened with a leadoff single by Cole Nagamine and followed it with BJ Freitas' RBI double to left center. Back-to-back errors by HPU starter Kyle Detwiler allowed Freitas to score. Jonathan Segovia added an RBI single before UHH loaded the bases and Kyle Yamada knocked a sacrifice fly to center to give the Vulcans a 4-0 lead.
 
The Sharks chipped away at the lead with a sacrifice fly by Tokunaga in the second and pulled within one with two runs in the fourth on Santana's two RBI single that scored Smith who was hit by a pitch and Tokunaga who walked.
 
The Vulcans answered with a fifth run after a leadoff single set up Grijalva's sacrifice fly to go up 5-3.
 
But HPU followed with back-to-back doubles by Tsutomi and Leskovec to get back within one at 5-4.
 
In the bottom of the seventh, Jaison Craig drew a leadoff walk and was replaced by Tyler Van Stone as a pinch runner and was sacrificed to second. Then Torres-Torioka came up as a pinch hitter and belted a 2-2 pitch to the fence in left center that scored Van Stone to tie the game, but Torres-Torioka was thrown out trying to stretch the hit into a triple.
 
The teams were able to start an extra inning and reliever Zachary Smith allowed a walk, but shut down the Vulcans in the top of the inning.
 
In the bottom of the eighth, the Sharks got two on, but when Santana flied out to strand the runners, the game was called because of the travel curfew to allow UH Hilo to return to the big island.
 
No pitching decisions were recorded, but starter Detwiler allowed eight hits in five innings with five runs (two earned) and two strikeouts. Smith allowed two walks, but no hits with a strikeout in three innings.
 
The Sharks said goodbye to eight seniors, Craig, Fram, Detwiler, Smith, Leskovec, Inabata, Jordan Knoll and Matthew Gunter following the game in senior day activities.