Jordan Mopas batted 3-for-4 with a double and three RBIs and Tyler Tokunaga scored three times as the Hawaii Pacific baseball team beat No. 20 Dixie State 6-4 in the seven-inning second game of a doubleheader Saturday in St. George, Utah.
The Sharks’ Devland Zakar and Brandon Bonilla tossed a combined 3 2/3 scoreless and hitless innings of relief.
In the nine-inning first game, Walker Williams, Chance Abrath and Mark Marinch combined for 5 2/3 innings of scoreless relief in the Red Storm’s 10-2 win.
Tokunaga had three hits for HPU.
The Sharks moved to 28-18, 18-16 PacWest, and the Red Storm went to 35-11, 23-9.
>> Phillip Steering batted 3-for-4 with a home run and three RBIs and Sean Nearhoof went 3-for-4 with a homer and two RBIs as Hawaii Hilo beat Academy of Art 7-4 in the seven-inning second game of a doubleheader in Oakland, Calif.
In the nine-inning first game, Alexander Kuisel pitched a two-hitter with eight strikeouts in the Urban Knights’ 3-0 victory.
The Vulcans’ Eric Vega allowed three runs — two earned — in a complete-game performance.
Hilo moved to 6-30, 5-26 PacWest, while Academy of Art went to 12-28, 7-19.
BYU-Hawaii drops road doubleheader
The Brigham Young-Hawaii softball team dropped a doubleheader to Concordia (Calif.) on Saturday in Irvine, Calif.
In the first game, Jasmin Dresser hit a grand slam during a 10-run third inning and Susana Gurney pitched a five-hitter as the Eagles won 12-1 in five innings.
Rebecca Mawson doubled in the Seasiders’ only run in the second. In the second game, BethAnn McCann pitched a seven-hitter in Concordia’s 7-4 win.
Makaela Williamson had a two-run single in the first for BYU-Hawaii.
The Eagles improved to 40-11, 21-7 PacWest, while the Seasiders fell to 9-31, 5-25.
>> The doubleheader scheduled for Saturday between Chaminade and Hawaii Pacific at Howard A. Okita Field was postponed because of rain.
Leu, Almadova to speak at QB Club
Lester K.M. Leu and Ben Almadova, president/treasurer and member of the board of the ‘Iolani Raiders booster club, respectively, will be the featured speakers for the Honolulu Quarterback Club luncheon on Monday.
Leu, an ‘Iolani and Santa Clara University Law School graduate, has been a licensed and practicing attorney in Hawaii since 1981 with the law firm of Leu, Okuda and Doi.
Almadova is a member of ‘Iolani’s class of 1951. The Kauai native won the ILH football, basketball and baseball championships during the 1950-51 school year and played all three sports for Pasadena City College in California, where he won the Junior College Football Championship in 1951 and 1952. His grandson, Breland, played baseball for the University of Hawaii from 2010 to 2012 and spent four seasons in the Arizona Diamondbacks farm system.
