KEAAU--In almost any soccer match played across this country and around the world, if you score four goals, you are most certainly going to win.

Not today at Paiea Stadium. The Hawaii Hilo Vulcans and Hawaii Pacific Sharks battled to a 4-4 double overtime tie in men's soccer action at Kamehameha School, in a vibrant match played during a steady rain. Sven Koenig scored three goals for the Sharks and Jake Sagami tallied twice for the Vulcans in the scorefest. Hawaii Pacific, who is unbeaten in Pacific West Conference play, moved to 2-0-1 in league action and to 2-2-3 overall. UHH is now 1-6-1 in 2016 and is 0-3-1 in PacWest play.

It was the most goals that Hawaii Pacific has given up all season, and it was the first time that the Sharks had allowed a score in league action. It doubled the most goals the Vulcans had scored in any match this season.

Hawaii Pacific struck first, and for Shark fans it was a familiar refrain. Sophomore Koenig created a breakaway and scored staightaway past freshman keeper Andrew Tamburro to put HPU on the board at 1-0 just 11 minutes into the contest. For the 6-foot German, it was his conference-leading ninth goal of the season, in just seven matches. And there would be more.

The Vulcans evened things up with a little over six minutes left in the half. Two players that had entered the match off the bench teamed up for a pretty goal, with Kyran Johal dribbling in from the left side and passing back to Sagami. The junior fired it in from 12 yards out, sending both teams into the locker room tied 1-1 at the break.

The Sharks countered just a little over four minutes into the second half, again off the foot of Koenig, his tenth goal of the season to give the Sharks back the lead, 2-1. But the upset-minded Vulcans climbed back into a deadlock when Rodrigo Castellanos drilled a free kick into the net. Castellanos connected from about 25 yards out on the right side and curled the ball into the left side of the goal past a diving Chandler Schur to make it 2-2.

The Vulcans added a third score to take the lead for the first time in the match with just over 21 minutes left. Curtis Walker send a long pass from the left side of the pitch towards the goal, and Johal beat Schur to the ball for the go-ahead score. But UHH's lead was short lived as just three minutes later (guess who) Koenig found the net again, this time winning a scramble in the front of the goal--his 11th of the season and third of the match. It was now 3-3.

HPU then punched in what most thought would be the game winner, and this time it wasn't Koenig. Eric Kemsies grabbed a shot that had rebounded off the cross bar and powered it in with just over ten minutes left. Kemsies' shot was the third attempt for the Sharks during the scramble and put them up 4-3. But the Vulcans shocked everyone in Keaau by scoring with less than a minute left when Sagami scored his second goal of the match, this time picking up a deflection and centering it back into the net.

Koenig gave it one last heroic effort, sending a bullet towards the top of the goal with just two seconds left, but it was punched to safety by Tamburro, sending the match into overtime.

In the first overtime period (10 minutes), Tamburro saved two more shots by Koenig, and Koenig watched another shot of his bounce off the cross bar. In the second overtime, it was the Vulcans with the best opportunity when Trenton Hooper made a solo run towards the goal by his shot was blocked by Schur. Two more Vulcan shots followed on the scramble but both missed the mark.

Tamburro, making his first collegiate start, had six saves in the match. The Sharks sent 24 shots his way, 10 of them on goal. UHH had 11 shots on the long afternoon, seven of them on goal.

The Vulcans will continue a long home stand with a Thursday match against Chaminade at Kamehameha School. Start time is 12:30 pm.