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MILILANI — This was the game that Kayla Bello had been longing for.

Led by Bello's four-RBI effort at the plate and a one-hitter courtesy of Serenity Jackson, Mililani blanked visiting Waianae, 7-0, Saturday morning. The game was called after the top of the fifth inning due to heavy rain and thunder in the area.

The Trojans, No. 6 in the ScoringLive/Hawaiian Electric Softball Power Rankings, notched their third consecutive win and improved to 5-4 in the Oahu Interscholastic Association Division I West standings. The Seariders dropped their fourth straight to fall to 2-6.

Despite the rain-shortened circumstances, Mililani rapped out eight hits and saw eight of its nine batters reach base at least once. Bello (2 for 2) and Katie Carlos (2 for 3) paired hits in the win.

Although Bello extended her hitting streak to five games and raised her batting average to .429, it was her first multi-hit game this season. In her first two at-bats Saturday, she more than doubled her previous RBI total (3).

"Lately I've had a really bad slump. I had a hard time hitting the ball, so it felt good to get back on it," said Bello, who hit a three-run home run in the first inning and added an RBI-double in the third.

"She was probably waiting for a game like this, but she swung the bat really well today," Trojans coach Rose Antonio said.

Bello provided the big hit in a productive first inning for the home team. Tracie Okumura led off with a four-pitch walk and Kamie Matsukawa reached on a error to put two runners aboard. After Carlos lined out to shortstop for the first out, Bello hammered Alohilani Napalapalai's 1-1 pitch deep over the left field fence.

"It was there and my coach gave me a heads up that it's coming inside and I just turned on it as fast as I could," Bello said.

Okumura drove in Kamryn Sasaki with an RBI-sacrifice fly in the second inning and the Trojans added another pair in the third.

Carlos led off with a single before coming out for courtesy runner Tia Dumlao, who came all the way around to score two pitches later on Bello's double to left-center.

"That was a hit-and-run and she executed it very well and hit it in the gap," Antonio said.

It's a spot that Bello relishes.

"(Antonio) gives me a lot of hits-and-runs and when she gives me those I feel very confident. I feel more confident at a hit-and-run versus regular hitting, I guess because most of the time when I'm hitting a hit-and-run it's there and I just gotta take a swing," said Bello, who came around to score on a Kamryn Sasaki RBI-fielder's choice to extend her team's lead to 6-0.

Mililani added an insurance run in the fourth on Kobe Brown's RBI-fielder's choice to score Okumura.

The result was anything but similar to the first meeting between the teams this season, when Waianae walked off with a 2-1 eighth-inning win on March 6.

"We had better contact with the ball. The last game we played them we had a number of fly-outs, pop-ups, but today we hit the ball, line drives and on the ground and we made the defense work, so it was a huge difference," Antonio said. "It was the same approach. We just make small adjustments and that was it."

For Bello, the game was especially redeeming.

"It felt really good. I mean, the first time we played them I didn't really play — I didn't play at all that game — so it was good to finally come in and play," she said.

Meanwhile, Jackson kept the Waianae bats at bay. The sophomore retired 15 of the 18 batters she faced and stranded all three base runners. The lone hit she surrendered came in the second inning on Kaylee Nakamura's two-out single up the middle.

"Serenity did a great job. She hit her spots and kept the ball down and she let the defense work," Antonio said.

Jackson (2-0) walked two batters and struck out one to log her first win since March 10 against Leilehua and lowered her ERA to 2.59. She induced nine ground-ball outs, got four fly-ball outs and one line out — off the bat of Gianni Souza-Bradbury right to third baseman Brown in the third inning.

"We weren't executing at the plate and they were making good plays. We were hitting the ball straight to them and their defense played error-free. You cannot really help that," Waianae coach Robert Kalaola said.

Napalapalai (1-4) walked three batters with one strikeout and was charged with six earned runs.