BRISBANE, Calif.—For the second day in a row, UH Hilo split a pair of wild softball games with Academy of Art, winning the first game 11-10 in nine innings while dropping the second game, 5-2.

The Vulcans are now 11-15 overall and 5-11 in the Pacific West Conference. Academy of Art is 14-16 on the year and 8-10 in conference play. The two teams also split games on Saturday.

Bailey Gaspar hit a double and a home run in the first game in a contest where the Vulcans scored 11 times and had 12 hits. She also scored five times. Teammate Cristina Menjivar was 4-for-5 and drove in three runs.

UHH led 3-1 after five innings in a game that looked like a pitcher's duel as Leah Gonzales was dealing for the Vulcans. But Urban Knights finally got to Gonzales in the sixth, scoring three runs to take a 4-3 lead, launching what would now become a scorefest.

The Vulcans scored four runs of their own in the top seventh, on only two hits, which included an RBI-single by Menjivar. The Urban Knights answered with three in the bottom half of the inning with a two-out, three-run homer by Brenna Youngquist and the teams headed to extra time.

Both teams scored two runs in the eighth, and the Vulcans scored two in the ninth on Menjivar's two-run single. The Urban Knights added another run in the bottom of the ninth, but relief pitcher Danielle Wilson got the final out to preserve the win.

In the second game, UHH lashed out nine hits but could only push two runs across the plate. Meanwhile, the Urban Knights scored four times in the second inning on just two hits, helped by two Vulcan errors.

UH Hilo turned around and scored in the third inning, on a Kristen Ishii single, a Mari Kawano triple and a Gaspar single. But that would end their scoring for the day, despite the fact that they had three hits in the fourth inning and loaded the bases in the fifth.

Ishii, Kawano and Maria Steadmon all had two hits for the Vulcans, but three errors on the defensive side hurt them. Wilson pitched a complete game and gave up only three earned runs in six innings of work, but took the loss.

The Vulcans will continue their tour of northern California with a doubleheader at Notre Dame de Namur on Monday in Belmont. Start time is 11:30 a.m.