WAIPAHU, Hawai'i – Hawai'i Pacific University pounded out 14 runs in the opening game, but plated only two in the nightcap as the Shark split a PacWest Conference doubleheader with Concordia Irvine, winning 14-2 and falling 6-2 at Hans L'Orange Park.
 
The Sharks (16-16, 10-14) matched a season-high for single-game runs in the win, but stranded nine runners in the second contest. The Eagles (12-22, 9-15) snapped their three-game losing streak and avoided a series sweep with the win in the nightcap.
 
Senior first baseman Christian Kapeliela of Kaneohe, Hawai'i/Castle led the offense over the two games, going 4-for-7 at the plate with a walk and scoring three runs. Senior designated hitter Codi Santana of Oxnard, Calif./St. Bonaventure, was 3-for-4 in game one with two RBIs and three runs scored.
 
Junior righthander Charlie Brooks (2-4) of Ventura, Calif./Buena, got the first game win, going five innings and allowing two runs on six hits with a walk and three strikeouts. Junior righty Christian Miller of Brementon, Wash./Central Kitsap came in for three innings allowing only a walk to go with a strikeout in the 10 batters he faced. Junior righthander Santiago Camarena of Houston, Texas/Clements, allowed a hit and a walk in the final inning.
 
CUI's Joshua Ibarra (1-4) was rocked for 12 of the HPU runs (six earned) in the first three innings he pitched, on 10 hits and two walks with two strikeouts. Jack Ruegge allowed two runs on seven hits in the next four innings with three strikeouts, while Isaiah Bettencourt got all three Sharks he faced in the eighth.
 
The Eagles got their two runs on three hits off of Brooks in the first inning, with a Hunter Holland RBI single and a steal of home by Bailey Collins.
 
HPU answered with a four-run bottom of the first on an RBI single by Santana, a wild pitch that scored Kapeliela, and a two-RBI single from junior leftfielder Jordan Mopas of Ewa Beach, Hawai'i/St. Louis HS.
 
The Sharks tallied three more in the bottom of the third on a bases-loaded ground out by Mopas and an Eagle throwing error that plated two Shark runners.
 
The Sharks blew open the game in the bottom of the fourth, scoring five times. Senior third baseman Wyatt Hoppie of Orange, Calif./Villa Park, belted a two RBI double, Santiago followed with an RBI single as did senior catcher Kreston Woods of Tempe, Ariz./DeNiza. A fielding error by CUI to allowtered the fifth run to cross the plate as HPU led 12-2 after four.
 
The Sharks added two more in the seventh on a sacrifice flys by senior pinch hitter Froy Smith of Kaneohe, Hawai'i/Castle and sophomore second baseman Matthew Tsutomi of Pearl City, Hawai'i/Pearl City on the way to the 14-2 win.
 
HPU had wished it could have saved a few of the runs from the first game for the second as Concordia Irvine scored five times in the first two innings of the seven inning contest.
 
Senior righthander Billy Clemens (4-3) of Tempe, Ariz./Corona Del Sol, struggled early, but went 5.2 innings allowing six runs on nine hits with two walks and five strikeouts. Sophomore lefthanded reliever Conlan Myers allowed two hits in his third of an inning, while Evan-Thomas May notched a strikeout in his one inning pitched.
 
The Eagles got three runs on five hits in the first, with an RBI single from Alex Dimascio and a two-RBI double by Holland. CUI added two more in the second thanks to an RBI single from David Tominaga and a wild pitch on a strikeout that allowed Collins to reach and scored Dillon Millar.
 
Clemens settled in and was fine until the sixth, when he gave up a leadoff single, but got the next two batters before running out of gas. Myers came on an gave up an RBI double to Haloa Dudoit for a 6-0 lead before closing out the inning.
 
Concordia Irvine's Will Cohen (3-0) contained the Sharks, holding them to four hits in the first five innings. But the Sharks came back in the sixth with four hits to score twice. With two out, HPU loaded the bases for senior shortstop Mitchell Bumann of Corona, Calif./Temescal Canyon, who rocketed a two-RBI single up the middle to give the Sharks some hope at 6-2.
 
After holding the Eagles following a leadoff double in the top of the seventh, the Sharks got a runner on as Hoppie reached on an error. After a strikeout, Smith, who had come in as a designated hitter, hit a single to left field, but tried to stretch it to a double and was thrown out at second to end the game.
 
The Sharks took the series against CUI 3-1 and now will face the No. 1 team in the country this weekend as Azusa Pacific visits for a four-game PacWest set. The first game is a single contest Friday night at 6 p.m., with a doubleheader on Saturday starting at 2 p.m. The series wraps with a single game next Monday starting at 6 p.m. All four contests are at Hans L'Orange Park.