Kailua's Stone Parker throws a pitch to plate against Roosevelt. He pitched four innings of shutout ball with three strikeouts. Leighland Tagawa | Special to SL

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KAILUA — Stone Parker threw four innings of two-hit ball and got more than enough help from his offense as Kailua pulled away from visiting Roosevelt, 10-0, in a game that was called in the bottom of the sixth due to the mercy rule.

A Wednesday afternoon crowd of about 100 fans saw the seventh-ranked Surfriders pound out 13 hits by eight different players to improve to 6-2 in the Oahu Interscholastic Association Division I East standings.

"Everybody just came together as a team and we hit and executed," said Kailua left fielder Jalen Ah Yat, who batted 2 for 3 with three RBI and a run scored.

It was Kailua's first back-to-back victory since March 3 and its third win in four games.

The Surfriders, who remain in second place in the seven-team division with the win, scored all of their runs in the fourth inning or later.

The starting pitchers, Matthew Schewe of Roosevelt and Parker of Kailua, appeared locked in a pitcher's duel early on.

Schewe retired the first eight batters he faced and 11 of the first 13 before he ran into trouble in the bottom of the fourth inning. After getting the first two outs of the inning on ground outs, he allowed consecutive singles to Ah Yat and Kalua Neves before Dakota Kadooka brought both runners home with a two-out double to right-center. Kadooka came home two pitches later on an RBI-double by Bryson Ballesteros.

"It was good to see that after we kind of struggled at the plate early," Ah Yat said. "When we got the momentum, everybody came together and we all got hits."

Schewe, who was making his first start of the season, left after the fourth inning. Of the five hits he allowed, four of them came in his final frame.

"That was Matt's first outing so we weren't going to extend him too much, but we kind of wanted to see how he goes to war," Rough Riders coach AD Mols said. "He did good, so we just kind of ran him back out there. They got a big hit with two outs. He pitched good enough to keep us in the game, we just didn't get our hits today, so when you get zero (runs) on the board it's tough."

Hostas Pang took over on the mound in the fifth inning, but struggled from the get-go. He allowed six straight hits, including back-to-back run-scoring doubles by Dylan Kurahashi-Choy Foo Ah Yat before Neves unleashed a two-run blast well over the right field fence.

"Coach just said to look middle-away and everybody just started hitting," said Ah Yat, whose double to left-center plated Joey Cantillo from third and Kurahashi-Choy Foo from second.

"I just saw fastball," Ah Yat said. "He gave me a fastball away and I just tried to square it up."

The Surfriders sent eight batters to the plate in the fifth inning and plated five runs on six hits.

"I think we were trying to do much probably too early in the game, not taking what they were giving us," Kailua coach Corey Ishigo said. "We were trying to swing for the fences instead of trying to make solid contact."

Kurahashi-Choy Foo ended the game with a two-out, two-run double in the bottom of the sixth that brought home Matthew Kaleiohi and Cody Riturban.

All nine spots in the Kailua batting order got on base. Four players registered at least two hits, five different players drove in runs and eight Surfriders scored at least one run.

"It's good to have our bottom of the lineup get on base in whatever way they can and if we get to the top we feel pretty confident we're going to score some runs," Ishigo said.

Parker struck out three and walked one to earn the win. He threw just 56 pitches in the outing to improve to 1-1 on the year. Parker reached three-ball counts just twice — to the first two batters he faced — before settling down.

"He threw strikes. He was behind in the count early, but once he found his command then he pitched efficient today," said Ishigo, who noted that Parker was on a pitch count of 70.

"We were satisfied and we were happy with the outing," Ishigo said. "He's healthy, he's throwing hard and he's throwing strikes, so that was the main thing we got out of this with him."

Ryan Inouye and Ah Yat each pitched in with one hitless inning of relief in the win.

"I thought we put some good swings on it, but we just couldn't string them together," Mols said. "We put the ball in play on the ground, but just not hard enough."

The Surfriders also won first meeting between the teams this season, by a score of 5-3, back on Feb. 25.

Roosevelt fell to 4-4 with the loss and will visit Kaiser Saturday.

Kailua will face Kalaheo Saturday at Kailua District Park.