Campbell's Dorrien Villanueva-Hemosura throws a pitch to the plate against Mililani. Sylvia Lee | SL

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Campbell's Dewayne Sprinkel gets caught in a rundown between first and second against Mililani. Sylvia Lee | SL

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Mililani's Chase Miyachi connects with a pitch against Campbell. Sylvia Lee | SL

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Mililani second baseman Micah Yogi gets airborne as Campbell's Zachary Recolan slides into second. Sylvia Lee | SL

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MILILANI — There was no stopping Dorrien Villanueva-Hermosura Wednesday afternoon.

The junior pitcher struck out seven in 6 2/3 innings of work and at the plate, doubled and drove in a run to help Campbell to a 2-0 win over Mililani. The Sabers, ranked third in the ScoringLive/OC16 Baseball Rankings, improved to 6-0 and in firm command of first place in the Oahu Interscholastic Association Red West.

Villanueva-Hermosura gave up just four hits, allowed just one baserunner to reach second base and retired 11 straight batters during one stretch. He retired 18 of the 23 batters he faced and surrendered just one walk.

"He had a hell of a game," Sabers' coach Rory Pico said of Villanueva-Hermosura. "He had very good command of all of his pitches and he threw it where we wanted him to throw it."

Campbell's offense was paced by leadoff batter Jobe Ibana's 3-for-4 day. He led off the third inning with a double to left field and advanced to third on a fielder's choice. After Dirk Himan walked to put runners at the corners, Villanueva-Hermosura hit a dribbler to the right side of the infield that allowed Ibana to score the game's first run.

"I was just trying to pull it, hit a deep fly ball and hit a run," Villanueva-Hermosura said. "Just wanted to get that first run and that's all we needed."

Mililani got a runner on base in both the first and second inning. Kaimana Souza-Paaluhi led off the game with a single and stole second, but Villenueva-Hermosura sat down the next three batters to end the threat. Justice Nakagawa hit a one-out single to right in the second, but Villanueva-Hermosura got Kellen Otsu to ground into an inning-ending 5-4-3 double play.

"(Mililani) put some tough balls in ball and our defense has been kind of shaky lately, but we made the plays that we had to make and anything you can do that and keep those guys off base, it's a lot easier to pitch," Pico said.

The Sabers got the leadoff man aboard in six of the innings, including the first four. Villanueva-Hermosura lined a double to right to start the top of the sixth inning. Tryzen Rene Patricio laid down a sacrifice bunt to move him over to third before Zachary "Kila" Kapihe drove a ball to deep left that took one hop off the fence and scored Eli Kahaawi, who courtesy ran for Villanueva-Hermosura.

"In the dugout, coach said 'Anything that looks good just drive him in — just put the ball in play — and I knew we were only up one (run) with runners in scoring position, so I had to do something to bring up our team," said Kapihe, a junior right fielder. "It was a first-pitch fast ball, down the pipe. They were working away on us. Every two strikes working away, getting us on the off-speed stuff, but we had to just make adjustments."

Campbell left seven runners on base, but got four of its eight hits on two-strike counts. Both runs that scored came off leadoff doubles.

"That's always the goal, to get the leadoff guy on and we had guys on base — we didn't do a great job of driving them in when we had the opportunities — but we had some timely hits that we were fortunate enough to get a few guys home and it turned out to be enough," Pico said.

Villanueva-Hermosura came back out for the seventh inning and struck out the first two batters before allowed a walk and a single to the next two batters. He was pulled for Kapihe, who got the final batter to fly out to right for the save.

"Anytime you get a guy on base that can run a little bit with no outs it gives you a lot more things you can do and a lot more opportunities," Mililani coach Mark Hirayama said. "The big one was the double that (Ibana) hit. We leave pitches up in the zone they're going to capitalize on the mistakes so you've got to give them credit for taking care of business and we've just got to get a little better on doing that ourselves."

It was the third consecutive loss for the Trojans, who fell out of the Power Rankings this week after debuting in the fifth spot last week, and are now 2-4. Wednesday was the first time they were shutout this season. It was the fourth shutout victory for the Sabers.

Mililani starter Trevor Inouye allowed seven hits in six innings. He struck out three, walked two and took the loss. Koa Eastlack pitched the final inning and gave up one hit.

"It is what it is, that's baseball," Hirayama said. "We played well today, we just got beat by a good pitcher that kept us off-balance and they made the mistakes hurt as far as our pitcher leaving a couple pitches up, but we played better today compared to the last couple games and we've just got to keep working."

The teams played three weeks ago in the regular-season opener for both teams. Campbell beat Mililani 5-4 on a sacrifice fly in the bottom of the seventh inning by Kapihe, who also was the starting pitcher and allowed three runs and four hits in 6 2/3 innings pitched.

Both teams hit the road Saturday. Mililani visits Kapolei (1-4) while Campbell visits second-place Waipahu (4-1). Both games start at 11 a.m.