HONOLULU, Hawai`i--On a Saturday afternoon at the Shark Tank, it was pretty apparent from early on that no one was going to stand between the Hawai`i Pacific women's basketball team and an unbeaten Pacific West Conference season.

Not the Vulcans, as UH Hilo fell in their 2019-20 season finale to the conference champion Sharks, 91-57. HPU finishes their league season with a 22-0 mark, and the No. 3 nationally ranked squad is 27-1 overall. They will be the No. 1 seed at next week's Pacific West Conference tournament at Azusa, March 5-7.

UH Hilo's season ends at 10-16 overall and at 9-13 in the PacWest. The Vulcans finished in seventh place, one spot out of a tournament berth. 

The Sharks didn't stumble a bit on Senior Day, hitting 15-of-30 shots from three-point range and nailing 18-of-22 free throws. They out-boarded the Vulcans, 46-31.

Allie Navarette led UHH with 15 points. Mandi Kawaha had 13 points and four assists, while Jessica Goodluck led the Vulcans with seven rebounds. Starr Rivera led four HPU players in double figures with 24 points.

HPU jumped out to a 7-0 lead in the first quarter, and kept the Vulcans off the scoreboard for the first three minutes of the game. Kawaha hit a pair of three's in the period to keep it close, but the Sharks held a 21-13 margin heading into the second period.

The No. 1 regionally ranked squad led at halftime 40-22, and Alysha Marcucci drained a three to start the third period to help propel her team to an eventual 69-42 lead heading into the final quarter. UHH would peck away at that big margin in the fourth, cutting it to 17 points on a Navarette basket in the paint, but the Sharks would pull away again for the final 91-57 margin.

After a 1-7 start, the Vulcans finished the season by going 5-5 over the final stretch. Their seventh place finish in the PacWest is their best since the 2016 season (also seventh).