Box Score IRVINE, Calif.—Host Concordia and visiting Hawai`i Hilo used different winning methods in battling to a doubleheader split on Saturday afternoon at Eagles Field in Irvine.

The Eagles rallied for a 5-3 win in the first game, and the Vulcans brought out the lumber in the second game for a 14-6 verdict. It was the first two games of a four-game slate and the two squads will square off against each other again on Monday at noon Pacific time.

UH Hilo remains at .500 in Pacific West Conference play (6-6) and they are 8-11 overall. Concordia is now 10-11 on the season and they are 5-1 in Pacific West Conference play after opening league action with a four-game sweep of Hawai`i Pacific.

The Vulcans had 21 hits in the second game, scoring four times in the fifth and ninth innings. Senior second baseman Mana Manago had a career-high five hits in six at-bats in the nightcap, and drove in three runs.

The visitors rallied from a 4-1 deficit heading into the fifth before their first big outburst (four runs). They would score in every inning after that with Manago's five hits leading the way—but he had plenty of support from his teammates. Rustin Ho and Kamalu Neal both had three hits and drove in a pair of runs each. Two of Ho's hits were for doubles and one of Neal's base knocks went for two bases.

Two hits each belonged to Kyle Yamada, RJ Romo, Kobie Russell and Dylan Sugimoto. The Vulcans pounded the 21 hits off of three different Eagle pitchers.

Meanwhile, the benefactor of all that offense was starter Christian Sadler, who pitched 5.2 innings to get the win (2-2), allowing three earned runs while scattering eight hits. Brandyn Lee-Lehano, who also pitched an inning in the first game, pitched the final 3.1 innings without giving up an earned run, giving up just two hits and fanning four.

The first game had a much different format, although the Vulcans did score three runs in the first inning (a sign of things to come for the second game). Yamada led off with a single, and two walks and a ground ball RBI later (Neal), Jaryn Kanbara slapped a single up the middle to score two runs.

But that would almost all of the offense for the Vulcans. Any further rallies were snuffed by double plays or simply by Eagle pitcher Brett Vansant. Vansant would get stronger as the game went along, eventually retiring the final ten batters he faced in the sixth through ninth innings. He went the distance, allowing seven hits and the three first-inning runs.

Vulcan starting pitcher Kyle Alcorn had a solid start, shutting down the Eagles for the first four innings after being staked to the 3-0 lead. But Eagles had two extra base hits in the fifth and scored a pair of runs, and then tallied the two go-ahead counters in the seventh. Alcorn left the game after the seventh, with his linescore to read eight hits, four earned runs, two walks and one K. He took the loss (2-2).

Yamada was the only UHH player with more than one hit (2-for-4).

Concordia remains in first place in the PacWest (5-1), just ahead of Azusa Pacific (6-2). At 6-6, the Vulcans in the middle of the pack.