Hilo, Hawaii – Being competitive and making the best of opportunities the University of Hawaii at Hilo baseball team split a doubleheader with the University of Alabama-Birmingham 3-2 and 5-8 at Wong Baseball Stadium.

A last-inning error was enough for Ronel Trias to race around the base path to give the Vulcans (5-5) the first game. Trias beat out a hopper to first base with one out on the score board. Andrew Manning then fielded T.J. Brown's grounder, wound up and threw the ball above the first baseman. Trias rounded both bases and beat out the throw home.

Trias, who was 3 for 5 with an RBI, got the scoring started with a single in the second inning that scored Keoni Manago.

The Blazers (5-7) took the lead on Phil Bell's two-run homerun in the fifth.

Trias again was involved in the team's scoring with the game-tying run in the fifth. He opened the inning with a single, took advantage of two errors to get to third and scored on Peter Rodgers' sacrifice fly.

Besides Trias, A.J. Satele also collected multiple hits with a 3 for 3 game that included a triple. Dayne Ogawa was 2 for 3.

In the second game, the Blazers took off on a 3-run first inning.

Ogawa answered with a solo homerun in the second.

The Vulcans trailed 6-1 before they began a come back in the eighth as Satele hit a bases clearing double to left center to pull the Vulcans within four runs.

"When it was 6-1, I had no doubt we would come back," Ogawa said. "Everybody's just going for base hits. We're just working more as a team now."

After the Blazers posted two more runs, Michael Higa's sacrifice fly added the Vulcans' final run of the day.

Trias and Satele continued to carry the hot bat into game two with Trias collecting a pair of hits and Satele going 3 for 5 with three RBI.