WAIPAHU, Hawai'i – After sweeping a doubleheader in dramatic fashion on Saturday, Hawai'i Pacific University found the shoe on the other foot on Monday as Point Loma swept the series closing PacWest Conference doubleheader on Monday 10-8 in 10 innings and 16-7 at Hans L'Orange Park.
 
The Sharks (9-7, 3-5) let a six-run first inning lead get away in game one, while the Sea Lions (9-8, 5-3) started strong and never relented in the second contest.
 
Junior first baseman Christian Kapeliela of Kaneohe, Hawai'i/Castle had a hot bat, going 4-for-9 in the twinbill with four RBIs on a double and his second home run of the season. Leadoff man Tanner Tokunaga, a junior from Pearl City, Hawai'i/Pearl City, was 4-for-9 with two RBIs and a run scored.
 
HPU opened the first game by exploding for six runs on eight hits and a Point Loma error in the first inning and still left the bases loaded. Back-to-back RBI doubles by junior Jordan Mopas of Ewa Beach, Hawai'i/St. Louis, and Kapeliela, together with an RBI single by senior Wyatt Hoppie of Orange, Calif./Villa Park, junior Matthew Tsutomi of Pearl City, Hawai'i/Pearl City and Tokunaga to go with a sacrifice fly from senior Ryan Torres-Torioka of Holualoa, Hawai'i/Konawaena that was dropped by the Sea Lions accounted for the large lead.
 
The Sharks added a seventh run in the third inning when Tokunaga gained an RBI on a botched grounder for an error, and later and eighth run in the fourth on an RBI single by senior catcher Kreston Woods of Tempe, Ariz./DeNiza. But the Sharks stopped scoring in the fourth.
 
In the top of the fourth, the Sharks allowed Point Loma to score five two-out, unearned runs on just one hit thanks to three walks, two hit batsmen and an error that kept the inning alive.
 
The Sea Lions ruined the Sharks game in the seventh. After a pair of singles, Micah Preis tripled home both runs and scored himself on and RBI ground out to tie the game.
 
Point Loma  broke the tie in the 10th on pinch hitter Adrian Collazo's two RBI double for the 10-8 advantage. HPU followed with runners on the corners, but stranded them to end the game.
 
Conlan Meyers (0-1) was tagged with the loss for the Sharks, allowing two runs in 2/3 of an inning on a walk and hit batsman. PLNU's Cole Millerd (1-0) pitched 4.2 innings of relief in the win, scattering three hits with a walk and striking out four. John Balliet came in for a strikeout to the game for his second save.
 
In the nightcap, Point Loma roughed up HPU starter senior Billy Clemens of Tempe, Ariz./Corona Del Sol with five unearned runs on an error and five hits in 2/3 of an inning in the first. Then rolled over junior reliever Jordan Gesling of Lennox, S.D./Roosevelt with six runs on three hits with three errors and three walks in the next 2.3 innings. Santiago Camarena had three more unearned runs score. When the dust cleared, Point Loma had a 14-0 lead after the top of the fourth.
 
HPU rallied for six runs in the bottom of the fourth, thanks to two errors and singles from Woods and Tokunaga that set up a three-run shot to left by Kapeliela.
 
PLNU added two more runs in the sixth on a second Pries triple of the night and a wild pitch allowing him to score.
 
The Sharks plated a run in the bottom of the seventh, the last inning, on a pinch hit RBI single by junior Gabriel Garcia of Bakersfield, Calif./Bakersfield Christian.
 
Clemens (1-2) got the loss for the Sharks, while Sea Lion Wyatt Shackleford (2-1) picked up the win while picking up seven strikeouts and allowing six runs – two earned – on eight hits in five innings.
 
The Sharks have one more PacWest series before hitting the road for the first time in 2018. HPU hosts California Baptist starting on Friday with a single game at 6 p.m. The teams play a doubleheader on Saturday starting at 2 p.m. and finish with a single game next Monday, March 12, at 6 p.m. with all four games slated for Hans L'Orange Park.