Campbell's David Marrero puts up a shot as Kamehameha-Hawaii's Cody Cook defends. Marrero had a game-high 11 points in the win. Greg Yamamoto | SL

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Campbell's David Marrero puts up a shot as Kamehameha-Hawaii's Cody Cook defends. Marrero had a game-high 11 points in the win. Greg Yamamoto | SL

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For three quarters Wednesday night, Campbell and Kamehameha-Hawaii went toe-to-toe. The fourth quarter, however, belonged solely to the Sabers.

Lamart Dudley recorded a double-double with 10 points and 14 rebounds to lead Campbell to a 42-34 win over Kamehameha-Hawaii in a first-round game of the New City Nissan/Hawaii High School Athletic Association Division I Boys Basketball State Championships at McKinley's Student Council Gymnasium.

The Sabers, who are ranked 10th in the ScoringLive/OC16 Power Rankings, outscored the Warriors 12 to 4 in the final quarter to advance to a 5 p.m. quarterfinal Thursday against tournament second-seed Farrington at McKinley.

"I know how we started slow, but coach was just telling us to calm down, just stay focused, don't get too wild and just play our game; play defense," said Dudley, a senior forward.

Dudley scored all but two of his points in the first half. Senior forward David Marrerro led all scorers with 11 points to go with six boards and six blocks. Michael Merchant added nine points — all coming after halftime — and Jomar Jett Gapusan netted all eight of his points in the first half.

"We just calmed ourselves down, like how coach said, we got into our zone and did what we had to do for the last two minutes," Dudley said.

The game was knotted at 30 after three quarters. The Warriors took a brief lead on Pukana Vincent's steal and layup just seconds into the fourth quarter, but the Sabers answered with a 6-0 run, including a 3-pointer and pair of free throws by Merchant.

Vincent drained a 17-footer a few possessions later to bring Kamehameha-Hawaii back within 36-34, but Marrero made it a two-possession game with his finger roll off the feed from Jayce Bantolina.

Campbell added free throws by Dudley and Merchant down the stretch to seal it.

"I was telling them during the timeout in the fourth quarter that right now, 'It's not about me telling you what to do and you do this, you do that,' " Sabers' coach Wyatt Tau said. "At that point, it was about intensity. (Kamehameha-Hawaii) had a lot and we didn't have that much, so we were going to have to meet their intensity, because if we didn't, they were going to win the game. I guess these guys finally realized that we gotta go."

Solomon Escalante had 10 points and Vincent added nine for the Big Island Interscholastic Federation runner-up Warriors, who fell to 9-6.  They will play Leilehua in a 3 p.m. consolation game Thursday at McKinley.

"I just thought that we hurt ourselves," Kamehameha-Hawaii coach Dominic Pacheco said. "We've been more pressure than that. Just their size is a distraction for us, but I feel that we've been in more pressure situations. We hurt ourselves with a couple turnovers at the end. We were up 32-31, but that's how basketball goes. You've got to execute at the end."

Kamehameha-Hawaii is making its seventh appearance in the state tournament and is now 6-12 all-time and 1-2 in first-round games.

Campbell, which finished fifth in the Oahu Interscholastic Association, improved to 12-2. It is the ninth state-tournament appearance in school history. The Sabers are now 4-5 in first-round games and 10-15 all time.

Farrington defeated Campbell, 60-55, in an OIA tournament quarterfinal game on Feb. 14.