Game #19 & 20
ART U Urban Knights (11-7, 3-4 PacWest) vs. Hawaii Pacific (16-14, 3-11 PacWest)
Saturday, March 23, 2019 at 2 & 5 p.m. HT
Waipahu, Hawai'i-- Hans L'Orange Park
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Game #21
ART U Urban Knights (11-7, 3-4 PacWest) vs. Hawaii Pacific (16-14, 3-11 PacWest)
Sunday, March 24, 2019 at 2 p.m. HT
Waipahu, Hawai'i-- Hans L'Orange Park
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Game #22
ART U Urban Knights (11-7, 3-4 PacWest) vs. Hawaii Pacific (16-14, 3-11 PacWest)
Monday, March 25, 2019 at 6 p.m. HT
Waipahu, Hawai'i-- Hans L'Orange Park
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ALOHA HPU
Academy of Art will leave the mainland for a three day series with Hawaii Pacific to start their Hawaiian road trip. This will be ART U's third conference series of the season and first away from home.

FIRST PITCH
ART U is set to face Hawaii Pacific Saturday, March 23 at 2 & 5 p.m. HT, Sunday at 2 p.m. HT, and Sunday at 6 p.m. HT, all at Hans L'Orange Park in Waipahu, Hawai'i. Remember to follow @ARTU_Knights via the athletics app (Apple App Store, Google Play Store) and on Twitter & Instagram as well as "Like" the Urban Knights on Facebook for score updates, videos, and recaps.

KNIGHT WATCH
The pitching duo of seniors Mason Verhees and Gonzo Rios continue to dominate the PacWest. Verhees holds the lowest earned run average in the conference with a 0.93 and is coming off a seven inning, one run, seven strikeout performance against Holy Names on March 16. Verhees' is a perfect 3-0 in 2019 and has the second lowest batting average against in the PacWest at .143. The lowest belongs to Rios who has held opponents to an insignificant .133. His 1.46 earned run average and four wins are both second in the PacWest. In his latesting outing Rios went 5.1 innings without allowing a run or hit and striking out six. The senior Communications and Media Technologies major is up to 30 strikeouts in only 24.2 innings of work.

Junior shortstop Justin Summers hit his first career home run against Holy Names on Saturday. Summers drove the second pitch he saw over the left center fence for a walk off home run to give the Urban Knights a 2-1 victory. Junior outfielder Thomas Delgadillo continued his tear with six hits in the Knights' past series including a 3-for-4 game. Delgadillo leads the league in batting average with his astounding .469 average.

HPU ON EIGHT GAME SLIDE
Hawaii Pacific enters their series against the Urban Knights with a 16-14 overall record and a 3-11 conference record. HPU started their season on a four game win streak with a sweep of D3 opponent, Howard Payne. The Sharks took their first loss of the season in their next game to UH by a score of 3-10 on Feb 8 that kicked off a nine game series between the teams. HPU came out on top winning six of the nine games including a three game win streak of double digit scores (18-11, 15-8, and 20-10). The Sharks took three of four from Biola before starting PacWest play with Fresno Pacific and splitting the series with them. Since then HPU is on an eight game losing streak after being swept in back to back series by Concordia and Azusa Pacific. With a .322 team batting average the Sharks are the top hitting team in the conference and are led by Sean Coffey's .391 average which is third highest in the PacWest. The Sharks also claim the fourth and fifth highest individual averages in the conference with Christian Kapeliela hitting .385 and Trey Yukumoto hitting .375. The all-time record betwee HPU and ART U stands at 35-13 in favor of the Sharks.  

ART U SPLITS SERIES WITH HOLY NAMES   
In their eighth meeting of the season, Holy Names went out to an early lead and although ART U made a late inning push, the Hawks held on for a series split Sunday afternoon at Laney College. The Urban Knights swept the Hawks in the series earlier this season to secure a 6-2 head to head record against the cross town rivals for 2019. Read More.

LOOKING AHEAD
Academy of Art will continue their island tour with a series against UH Hilo running March 28-30 in Hilo, Hawaii.