HILO, Hawai`i— In a perfect world, Senior Day isn't supposed to roll like this.

Oh for sure, the senior day festivities after the game were celebratory and emotional, on a picture perfect sunny afternoon. But if you are one of the ten Hawai`i Hilo seniors, you want your last game at Wong Stadium to end differently than Sunday's 12-0 Hawai`i Pacific victory.

The visiting Sharks sent ten batters to the plate during a six-run fourth inning and pounded out 18 hits on the day to take two of the three games of the final home series of the year for the Vulcans. The two teams will play another three-game set next weekend on Oahu.

UH Hilo will take a 20-25 overall record and a 16-20 Pacific West Conference ledger into their final games, while the Sharks are now 20-27 on the year and 13-25 in the PacWest. Today's game was a non-conference encounter, as will be next Sunday's second game.

After a scoreless first two innings, the Sharks scored twice in the third inning, thanks in part to Marc Sauceda's RBI-double. HPU then blew the game open in the fourth. Mitchell Bumann opened the inning with single and a stolen base, and later drove in a run with a base knock, capping a six-run, seven-hit stanza. All the hits were singles.

For good measure, the Sharks added two more runs on four hits in the fifth inning, and Christian Kapeliela blasted a two-run homer in the seventh to add to the damage.

Meanwhile on the other side of the diamond, HPU's soft throwing lefty Joshua Muneno kept the Vulcans off balance all afternoon. Making just his third start of the year, Muneno pitched a complete-game, six-hit shutout. He didn't walk a batter, fanned five, and threw just 69 pitches on day.

Kyle Yamada and RJ Romo each had two of UH Hilo's hits, while Ryan Torres-Torioka had three hits and scored four times for the Sharks. Kapeliela went 3-for-6 with four RBI. Six other HPU players had two hits.

The first game of next weekend's series on Oahu will be on Saturday night (6 pm) in Waipahu at Hans L'Orange Park.