Aiea's Shannon Fermahin pumps his fist at second base after hitting a two-run single in the fourth inning. Greg Yamamoto | SL

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WAIPAHU — Shannon Fermahin did it again.

The senior outfielder drew a bases-loaded walk with one out in the bottom of the seventh inning that scored Jaryn Nakamoto to help Aiea walk off with a 3-2 win over Kapolei Wednesday night.

A crowd of about 120 fans at Hans L'Orange Park saw Na Alii relinquish a two-run lead on the Hurricanes only to come back in the final frame.  

Fermahin was a perfect 3 for 3 at the plate and drove in three runs as Aiea improved to 7-0 and solidified its hold on first place in the Oahu Interscholastic Association Division II standings.

Kapolei saw its four-game winning streak snapped and fell to 6-2.

It was the second time this season that Fermahin was a key factor in a win over the Hurricanes. He hit the go-ahead two-run home run in the top of the seventh inning a 6-4 Aiea victory back on March 20.

"That boy is unconscious," Na Alii coach Ryan Kato said of Fermahin. "He's on fire. He's the guy that at practice, I told the coaches they can work with anybody else, but leave the boy alone and just let him do what he does."

After Kapolei knotted the game at 2-all on Noah Lono-Soares' RBI-single in the top of the seventh, Aiea loaded the bases in the bottom of the inning after Nakamoto hit a one-out bloop single just over the second baseman and Duke Peters-Valdez and Jarred Uyeda drew back-to-back walks off Kapolei starter Ekolu Young. Fermahin then stepped to the plate and worked the count full before taking an inside pitch for ball four to score Nakamoto to end the game.

"I know it was a do-or-die situation for me even though there was only one out," Fermahin said. "I just had to play the game how I usually do. I cannot be tense up there, I just need to relax like how I've been doing."

Na Alii broke a scoreless tie on Fermahin's two-run single to left field that plated Peters-Valdez and Uyeda in the bottom of the fourth inning.

The Hurricanes got on the board in the next half-inning when Lono-Soares scored on a Mykah Kuratani sacrifice fly.

Dylan Madamba started on the mound for Aiea and went six innings, allowing two runs on three hits. He struck out five and walked one before giving way to Kobe Kato, who pitched the final inning and picked up the win.

"Dylan is a big-game pitcher," Kato said. "He's the guy that's in there, has the mound presence to be there, he thrives in that critical situation and then he makes the right pitches. He was just outstanding tonight."

It was Madamba's longest outing of the season. He got out of a jam in the second inning when the Hurricanes put runners on second and third with one out. Tristen Manoha was tagged out by catcher Makana Ah You on a failed squeeze attempt for the second out and Madamba got Kuratani to line out to second baseman Jansen Kudaishi for the third out.

"I was relaxed," Madamba recalled. "I trust in my defense back there and believed in my catcher, as always. It was a little nerve-racking because it was on TV and stuff, but I just blocked that out and focused on the batter."

Madamba, a lefty, ended the top of the third inning when he picked off Jordan Macias between first and second base and got the first out of the sixth when he picked Cobey Fujii off second base.

"The first pitch we did, we saw (Fujii) creeping out, so me and my shortstop make a signal to each other because he was creeping out too far and then the next pitch we just went with it," Madamba said.

Young went the distance for Kapolei and allowed six hits with three strikeouts and three walks, but couldn't overcome seven errors by his defense, including four in the two-run Aiea fourth inning.