Pearl City right-handed pitcher Trenton Darley scattered two hits in a complete game effort to help the No. 3 Chargers down No. 5 Trojans in Wednesday's OIA West matchup. CJ Caraang | SL

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MILILANI – Trenton Darley pitched a two-hit complete game and Matt Yokota drove in three runs to help No. 3 Pearl City down No. 5 Mililani, 7-0, Wednesday at the Trojans' field.

The right-handed Darley, who walked three and struck out one, did not allow a hit until the sixth inning when Rico Sallas beat out a single to shortstop to help the Chargers improve to 3-0 in the Oahu Interscholastic Association West.

The Trojans (2-1) fell behind 3-0 in the top of the first inning, as the Chargers sent seven batters to the plate against starter Justin Ogasawara (3 1/3 innings, six runs, six hits, two walks, three strikeouts), the losing pitcher.

Cleanup hitter Yokota did most of the offensive damage for Pearl City. The center fielder batted 3 for 4 with two doubles, three RBI and two runs scored. Darley also aided in his own cause with a first-inning two-run double.

"From the time we had him last year, he's always been a competitor," Pearl City coach Gavin Concepcion said of Darley. "We knew that going into big games like this, we knew he was a guy who was just going to compete for us. That's all we ask for anybody on our mound. A guy who's going to go out and compete in the zone for us and get tough when the game gets tougher. He just went right at guys and mostly threw fastballs."

Darley was not overpowering, but hit his spots aggressively. Of the 26 batters he faced, only five managed to reach three balls in their counts. Darley got 11 grounders for outs, three infield pop outs and four harmless fly outs and a soft lineout to shortstop.

"I trusted my defense," Darley said. "That allowed me to throw the fastball and let them hit balls on the ground, hit lazy pop flies. I just have to give it to my defense and coaching staff for calling great pitches."

Darley retired the first eight batters he faced before walking No. 9 hitter C.J. Ibara. After Ibara stole second, Darley walked Sallas before retiring Blaine Demello fielder's choice grounder to shortstop. Darley labored a bit in the sixth when Sallas led off with grounder to the hole that got by diving third baseman Davin Kapuras but backhanded by shortstop Matt Aribal, whose throw was beat out by the speedy batter. Demello reached on a fielder's choice grounder to first that forced out Sallas at second. After Demello reached second on a wild pitch, Darley retired Kaimana Souza-Paaluhi on a foul fly to left. Demello stole third before Aris Nakagawa walked, but Darley ended the threat by getting Ryan Kono to ground out to shortstop.

The Trojans put up a minor protest in the bottom of the seventh when Keolu Ramos singled with one out, but was erased when Hunter Kirihara grounded to second for a double play.

"They just beat us in all aspects of the game today," Mililani coach Mark Hirayama said.

The Chargers jumped on Ogasawara quickly in the first. Colby Hirano flared a single down the right field line to lead off and took second on Sam Prentice's ground single to left. Kapuras popped a bunt over first baseman Nakagawa, but was able to get the force at second because Prentice had to hold up to see if the pop would be caught. With runners at the corners, Yokota hammered an RBI double to left-center to put the Chargers ahead, 1-0, as Kapuras stopped at third. After Chrisitan Onomura flied out to left, Darley drilled Ogasawara's first pitch to right for a two-run double to make it 3-0 before Trestan Nakamura struck out to end the inning.

Pearl City added a run in the third when Yokota reached on a one-out single, stole second and scored on Onomura's single. Although Darley reached on an error on, Ogasawara got the next two batters to keep the damage at a minimum.

The Chargers chased Ogasawara in the two-run fourth. Aribal and Hirano reached on back-to-back walks from Ogasawara before Prentice struck out. Ogasawara was pulled for Shane Griffin, who hit Kapuras to load the bases and set up Yokota's two-run double. Griffin struck out two of the next three batters he faced – he hit Darley with a pitch between the two strikeouts – to end the inning.

Pearl City scored once in the top of the seventh against Mililani's third pitcher of the game in Brennan Anzai. Nishijo reached on a single to right and went to second on an error. After taking third when Aribal grounded out, courtesy runner Dillon Kaneshiro scored on Hirano's single before Anzai got two of the next three hitters he faced.

It is a nice start for Pearl City, but it also realizes it is still early in the season and it still has to face the Trojans again. (The OIA plays a home-and-home schedule.)

"Things change game by game," Concepcion said. "Elements change. You just go into each game, getting prepared to play the best ball game that you can. You let everything fall into place. For us, the whole premise is we believe we can win every game and we have to believe it. The record is what it is. We still have a long season ahead of us. We have to come back and play the Campbells and Mililanis. The whole OIA West is not going to be easy this year. We just have to keep plugging away."

The Trojans suffered in all aspects of the game. Besides the lack of offense, they committed three errors.

"Darley did a great job coming right after us," Hirayama said. "We didn't make good adjustments and we didn't do what we needed to do to compete today. That's our fault. We tip our caps to them. They wanted the game more than we did."