It had been 23 years since Hawaii failed to have a player selected straight out of high school.

It had also been 23 years since multiple Hawaii Pacific players were taken in the same draft.

A down year by Hawaii standards for the 2016 Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft ended with five players with local ties selected on the third and final day Saturday in rounds 11 through 40.

Hawaii Pacific pitchers Brandon Bonilla and Rico Garcia became the first pair of Sharks teammates selected in the same draft since Benny Agbayani and Larry Ephan were taken in 1993 (back when HPU used the Sea Warriors nickname).

Bonilla, a left-hander who spent one season at HPU, was selected in the 13th round (No. 391 overall) by the Baltimore Orioles.

Garcia, a four-year starter who graduated from Saint Louis, was selected in the 30th round (No. 890 overall) by the Colorado Rockies.

“Not too many individuals have that opportunity to compete at the next level, and I think both Brandon and Rico are well representative of our university,” HPU coach Garett Yukumoto said. “Obviously it helps our recruiting, but I think it shows that whether you play Division I, Division II, NAIA, junior college or high school, if you have special skills and talent that somebody wants, you will get an opportunity anywhere and anything is possible.”

HPU and Hawaii Hilo both had pitchers selected, while Hawaii failed to have a player drafted for the second time in four years.

Two UH recruits were taken late when signees Dustin Demeter of Dos Pueblos (Calif.) High and Carter Loewen of Yale Secondary School in Canada went in the final three rounds.

Demeter, a third baseman, went in the 38th round (No. 1,133) to the Miami Marlins and Loewen was taken by the home-country Toronto Blue Jays in the 40th and final round (No. 1,212).

“I kind of stopped watching after the 37th round and then my dad came running upstairs and said I got picked in the 40th round so I gave him a big hug,” said Loewen, who pitched for the Canadian junior national team last summer. “It means a ton. (Toronto) is the only team in Canada and they took me out of all people. I’m kind of leaning toward Hawaii and going through the college experience and hopefully I can build up my draft stock.”

Bonilla was the latest player with Hawaii ties first off the board since 2007, when Hawaii pitcher Tyler Davis was taken in the 21st round.

Oregon shortstop Mark Karaviotis, a 2013 Maui High graduate, was a surprise pick of the Arizona Diamondbacks in the 19th round (No. 569 overall).

Karaviotis played in only seven games this season and hit .077 (1-for-13) before sitting out the year with an injury. He hit .254 as a freshman and .270 as a sophomore.

Karaviotis was also drafted by the Diamondbacks in the 39th round out of high school.

UNC Greensboro outfielder L.J. Kalawaia, a fifth-year senior who was teammates with Garcia at Saint Louis, was selected in the 21st round (No. 636) by the Los Angeles Angels.

Kalawaia, who missed the 2015 season with an injury, was named to the All-Southern Conference first team this year after hitting .396 with 11 doubles, six triples, six homers and 65 RBIs.

His batting average is the fifth-best in school history and his 65 RBIs are tied for the fourth-best in a single season.

Hawaii Hilo right-hander Jordan Kurokawa became the first Maryknoll alum ever selected in the MLB draft when the Philadelphia Phillies took him to start the 28th round (No. 827 overall).

Kurokawa touched 93 on the radar gun in a two-hit shutout of Hawaii in February and finished the season 3-5 with a 2.96 ERA and 67 strikeouts in 67 innings for the Vulcans.

He’s the first player drafted out of UHH since Lars Knepper in 2007.

With two players selected Saturday, Saint Louis tied Kamehameha and Punahou for the most alumni selected in the MLB draft with 17 total selections.