The UH-Hilo volleyball team struggled with the first-touch bread-and-butter basics — serving and passing — in a four-set loss to Hawaii Pacific.
The Sharks played cleaner ball to defeat the Vulcans 15-25, 25-21, 25-14, 25-21 on Thursday night before 501 fans at UHH Gym.
It was UHH student appreciation night, and the partisan college kids in red T-shirts probably wondered what went wrong after the first set.
“After the first game, HPU served and passed way better, and that dictated the offense and their defensive end,” UHH coach Tino Reyes said. “They were able to stack their block on our left-side hitters.