WAIPAHU — For West Oahu CaneFires left fielder Logan Schafer, hitting his first home run in Hawaii Winter Baseball was nice. But just getting good wood on the ball was all that mattered.

The Milwaukee Brewers' third-round draft pick in June was a triple shy of the cycle, driving in four runs, to help West Oahu complete a three-game series sweep of the North Shore Honu, 7-5, yesterday at Hans L'Orange Park.

"It's not about having my first home run," Schafer said. "It's about feeling good again at the plate. It's been a struggle so far, trying to get my timing back, so it was a good feeling today all around."

Schafer entered the game hitting .154 with four RBIs for the HWB West-leading CaneFires (10-8).

After getting drafted out of Cal Poly San Luis Obispo — he was a teammate of Maui's Derrick Saito (Baldwin '05), a pitcher drafted and signed by Kansas City — Schafer hit two homers and batted .240 in 25 at-bats for Helena of the rookie Pioneer League, but went homerless and hit .276 in 181 at-bats at Low-A West Virginia of the South Atlantic League.

"I was trying to tinker with my swing a little bit, trying to get my timing a little better," Schafer said. "So I went back to some of the stuff I tried in the past and I seemed a little more comfortable today."

His two-run home run to right in the bottom of the second came after the Honu had taken a 1-0 lead in the top of the inning on Kenji Sato's RBI double.

Schafer added an RBI single in a three-run fourth and RBI double to right-center in a two-run fifth ignited by Wally Crancer's lead-off homer.

The timing worked well for Schafer. His parents, Randy and Stacey Schafer, and older brother Kyle, were in attendance. The Schafers are from Los Gatos, Calif.

It was a breakout day for Crancer, too. It was the first homer of the winter season for the catcher, who entered the game hitting .182.

"It felt good to finally hit one out," Crancer said. "It's always good to get the first one."

For eight innings, he was handling some fine pitching. CaneFires starter Chris Salberg (1-0) allowed a run, two hits and a walk with three strikeouts over four innings. Andrew Hess added three scoreless innings, allowing a hit and a walk with one strikeout, and Brian Parker gave up a hit and a walk in a scoreless eighth.

The Honu made the game interesting in the top of the ninth against Cliff Flagello. The Honu batted around, scoring four runs — three unearned because of a fielding error by shortstop Haruki Kurose — on a two-run single by Sung Woo Jang and two-run double by Kyle Martin.

The game ended when Matt McBride flied out to center with runners at second and third.

Starter Jose Capellan (0-1) was tagged for five runs in three innings for the Honu (6-12).

SHARKS 2, BEACHBOYS 0

Four pitchers collaborated on a four-hitter for East-leading Honolulu (13-5) yesterday at Les Murakami Stadium.

Starter Jonny Venters (2-1) allowed three hits and two walks with five strikeouts in five innings. Michael Broadway followed with two hitless innings with Roosevelt graduate Kaimi Mead pitching a perfect eighth. Andrew Graham gave up a hit in the ninth for his third save.

All of the damage against the BeachBoys (7-11) was done in the top of the third. Ruben Tejada singled and later took third on a pick-off throwing error by catcher Alex Garabedian. After Michael Mitchell walked, Michael Taylor grounded to second for a force at second, but shortstop Yuji Onizaki's throwing error to first allowed Tejada to score and Taylor to advance to second. Tony Cruz's single scored Taylor.

BeachBoys starter Mitsuo Yoshikawa (1-1) was charged with the two runs — one earned — in five innings.