The Hawai'i Pacific baseball squad may be tops among PacWest teams with its impressive 11-6 record in the early season, but don't tell coach Garett Yukumoto that the Sea Warriors have arrived just yet.

"It's still early," Yukumoto said. "There are a lot of things that we could be doing better, a lot of little things we need to do to get the job done."

In particular, Yukumoto has been disappointed in his team's inability to capitalize on its scoring opportunities.

Too often this young season, the Sea Warriors have gotten on base with less than two outs only to come up empty.

"We need to get it done, especially when our pitchers are throwing well enough to get the 'W,' " he said. "Our mental approach has got to get stronger."

The team got off to a hot start with a six-game sweep of Cal State-Dominguez Hills. But the team's play of late has been less impressive.

"You look at the box score to all of our games and we're ahead half way through but we just fall apart," Yukumoto said. "After beating (CSU-Dominguez Hills) we understood that we could compete with anyone, but we just can't compound our mistakes like we have been."

Yukumoto has plenty for which to be happy, as well.

Senior pitcher Kaimi Mead has been formidable in the early going, tossing a no-hitter en route to a 7-0 victory over Northwest Nazarene last week.

"He's been doing really well but he has to keep working hard," Yukumoto said. "It can't be about one good game. He has to try to repeat the feel and the control of that game all year."

Yukumoto has also gotten solid play from seniors Michael Takahashi, Danny Lee, and Andrew Sramek, and junior Aaron Asher, as well as encouraging progress from his freshman pitchers.

GRAND PERFORMANCE

Grand Canyon clinched its second consecutive PacWest women's basketball championship with wins over Dixie State (65-58) and Chaminade (82-60) last week.

The Antelopes finished the season 19-10 overall, 15-3 PacWest.

The four Hawai'i schools occupied the bottom four positions of the final standings, anchored by Chaminade, which struggled through an 0-25, 0-18 season.

The Silverswords will have to find a way to replace senior Simrin Herington, who averaged 17.5 points, on 60 percent shooting, and 9.5 rebounds in the final week of her collegiate career.

Reach Michael Tsai at mtsai@honoluluadvertiser.com.