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18
Winner Hawaii Pacific HPU 14-22, 9-15 PacWest
12
Academy of Art AAU-BASE 14-21, 7-14 PacWest
Winner
Hawaii Pacific HPU
14-22, 9-15 PacWest
18
Final
12
Academy of Art AAU-BASE
14-21, 7-14 PacWest
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Hawaii Pacific HPU 2 1 1 1 0 4 7 2 0 18 14 2
Academy of Art AAU-BASE 0 6 0 3 0 2 1 0 0 12 13 7

W: Leisher, Mac (2-2) L: Duenas, Fernando (2-5) S: Ramos, Markus (2)

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Winner Hawaii Pacific HPU 15-22, 10-15 PacWest
4
Academy of Art AAU-BASE 14-22, 7-15 PacWest
Winner
Hawaii Pacific HPU
15-22, 10-15 PacWest
9
Final
4
Academy of Art AAU-BASE
14-22, 7-15 PacWest
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Hawaii Pacific HPU 0 2 5 1 0 1 0 9 9 1
Academy of Art AAU-BASE 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 4 8 5

W: Stephens, D.J. (3-1) L: Secrist, Cannon (2-4)

Game Recap: Baseball |

Baseball Battles for over Six Hours as they Sweep First Double-Header over Urban Knights

OAKLAND, Calif. - The Hawaii Pacific University baseball team traveled to Oakland, California for their final road series on the mainland. They started a 4-game PacWest conference series against Academy of Art University Monday afternoon at Laney College Field. 
 
The Sharks (15-22, 10-15 PacWest) outlasted the Urban Knights (14-22, 7-15 PacWest) in game one 18-12, before comfortably taking the second game by a score of 9-4. 

Game One

Looking to continue their win streak, Hawaii Pacific came out hot to start the first inning. With Nicholas Jio on first base and two outs on the board, Richard Higa launched a double to put them both in scoring position. D.J. Stephens then drew a walk to load the bases. 

This brought up Ian Wolski, who was coming off a six RBI performance in their previous game against William Jessup University. Wolski took the second pitch he saw and slapped a single to left field, bringing home Jio and Higa. 

Moving into the top of the second, an error by Academy of Art's third baseman allowed Travis Johnson to reach the base path. A couple of batters later, Jio sent a ball deep enough to center field to score Johnson on a sacrifice fly, extending HPU's lead to 3-0 

However, the lead did not hold long. A pair of walks, four hits, and a couple of errors helped the Urban Knights to not only tie the game, but take a 6-3 lead in the bottom of the second. 

Luckily for Hawaii Pacific's pitching staff, the tenacity of HPU's offense that has been there for the last three games, never left. Johnson and his ability to make the defense falter was apparent. In the third, another error not only granted Johnson access to first base, but it scored Stephens in the process. Moving to the fourth, a big double by Tejean Smith would score Jio to make HPU's deficit 6-5 
 
Once again the Urban Knights responded in the bottom of the fourth. A homerun and a string of hits allowed ART U to extend their lead to 9-5. 
 
But you could never count the Sharks out. In innings 6-7-8, there were a total 16 runs between the two teams. It was Hawaii Pacific who came out the beneficiary, scoring 13 of those runs. 

To recap the big hits, in the sixth inning, Johnson cranked a double to the left center gap to clear the loaded bases. In the seventh, Noah Hata also had the bases loaded and found a single up the middle, plating two runs. Then in the eighth, Cole Kashimoto and Wolski both earned a single to score a run each. After four and a half hours of play, the Sharks took game one over the Urban Knights 18-12. 

Smith led the hitting category, finishing with three hits. Kota Suzuki, Higa, and Wolski followed just behind with two. 

Speaking of Wolski, he alongside Johnson, had a team-high three RBIs in the game. While Kashimoto and Hata brought in a pair each. 
 
Markus Ramos was the big man on the mound for the Sharks. He came in as a reliever and pitched three innings to close the game, giving up one earned run on two hits.  

Game Two

The poor defensive fielding that plagued the Academy of Art in the first game, carried on into the second matchup. In the second inning, two big errors allowed Noah Hata and D.J. Stephens to score the first runs of the game. 

Not wanting to only get runs off of errors, Hawaii Pacific's bats awoke in the third. After the first two batters flew out to the outfield, five straight players reached on base. Richard Higa and Stephens got on base, Hata followed them up by hitting a single to left field to score Higa. 

Then Travis Johnson pushed a triple down the right field line, collecting a pair of RBIs. Daniel Johnson continued the inning by slapping a single to right, bringing home T. Johnson. To wrap it all up, a messy play by the Urban Knights defense allowed D. Johnson to round the bases and score before the final out of the inning was recorded. 

Another pair of errors in the fourth allowed the Sharks to plate their eighth run of the game, courtesy of Higa. 

Meanwhile on the mound, Stephens was dishing out. Things got dicey in the bottom of the fourth when three straight singles saw the bases loaded with only one out. Not shaken, Stephens got the next two batters on swinging strikeouts to get out of the jam. 

In the top of the sixth, Stephens decided he wanted to add even more insurance for HPU. Nicholas Jio reached on a walk before moving to third on a hit by Higa. Stephens then stepped into the batter's box and cranked a single to right field to put Hawaii Pacific up 9-0. 

The Urban Knights did not go down quietly, scoring four runs in the final two innings. But with the gap as big as it was, the Sharks claimed the second game 9-4. 

Higa, Hata, and T. Johnson led the way with a pair of hits each. Meanwhile, T. Johnson and D. Johnson batted in two runs apiece. 

Stephens was pretty much flawless on the mound. He went five innings and did not allow a single run, all while striking out seven batters on the day. 
 
Up Next 

The Sharks will conclude their California road trip with another double-header against the Academy of Art. First pitch for tomorrow, April 11, is set for 1:00 p.m. PST at Laney College Field. 
 

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