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WAIPIO — Ismael Diaz did something Saturday that he had never accomplished in a baseball game before. 

Diaz, a Campbell senior and left fielder, drove in four runs in an 11-run top of the first inning to help the Sabers overwhelm Leilehua in a lopsided 14-2 win at Patsy T. Mink/Central Oahu Regional Park. The game was called after five innings due to the 10-run differential mercy rule. 

Campbell rapped out 17 total hits and saw five different players record at least two base knocks to finish out the regular season with an 8-4 record. The Sabers will be the No. 3 seed out of the Western Division in next week's 12-team Oahu Interscholastic Association Division I tournament. 

Leilehua dropped its third consecutive game to fall to 3-9. The Mules will be the West sixth seed and play at East third-seeded Moanalua in a first-round game Tuesday. 

Diaz batted 3 for 4 and had one of four doubles by Campbell batters. Slade Sarono was a perfect 4 for 4 at the plate with a double and drove in three runs. Shaveh Sarono also doubled and drove in three runs, while leadoff Batter Kayne Carlos batted 3 for 4 with a double, walk and three runs scored. 

"We always work on hitting line drives up the middle, splitting the gaps and it all just comes down to just getting on (base) and passing the baton," said Diaz, whose double to left center gave his team a 5-0 lead in the opening frame. 

Diaz said Campbell's hitters paid close attention to Leilehua starting pitcher Koen Barton's command issues early on. 

"It was our first time seeing him this year, but we just saw the fastball — he wasn't throwing strikes with the off-speed (pitch) — so we just were looking fastball all the way," Diaz explained. 

However, Barton started Diaz off with an off-speed pitch before he delivered a fastball high and inside that Diaz was able to get around on and lace into the gap in left center. 

"The first pitch was a curveball and I was just looking (for) the fastball and that at-bat he gave it to me and I just got my pitch," Diaz said. 

Diaz's two-run double came three batters after Shaveh Sarono doubled down the left field line to open the scoring with a pair of runs. 

Barton, the reigning OIA West Player of the Year and All-Hawaii Pitcher of the Year, faced just seven batters in his shortest outing of the season. He walked four batters, gave up three hits and did not record an out. All seven baserunners he put aboard came around to score. 

Barton, who fell to 1-2 on the year, gave way to relief pitcher Tanner Tammarine after a walk to Tainoa Lave. 

In his second at-bat in the top of the first, Diaz pulled a double to left field that scored two more runs and ran the Sabers' lead to 11-0. Diaz said to the best of his recollection, he had never recorded four RBIs in a single inning before. 

"It's the first time," Diaz laughed. 

Campbell sent 16 batters to the plate and rapped out 10 hits in a 29-minute top of the first inning, much to the delight of coach Wayne Nagamine, whose squad was already locked into the West third seed prior to the first pitch. Regardless, Nagamine was pleased to see his team put together some hits leading into the playoffs. 

"We weren't really playing great baseball," Nagamine said. "We were playing OK, (so) it was good to get some things rolling and going into the playoffs hopefully we maintain what we're doing now, especially with the bats."

Nagamine's plan to use multiple pitchers to staff the game worked like a charm. Six different pitchers combined on a four-hitter. Starter Hunter Lindsey allowed one run on one hit with one strikeout and two walks to finish as the pitcher of record. 

Fabian Guanio struck out all three batters he faced in a perfect bottom of the second inning and Vaden Sabino also retired the side in a flawless fourth frame. 

"We got some guys some innings, we used different pitchers in the game and that was a good thing," Nagamine said. "We threw six guys today so that was good and they all did well, so that's a good sign and it makes our job a little harder to figure out who we want to throw and you like that as a coach."

Kai Freitas drove in both of Leilehua's runs. His two-out RBI-double down the left field line scored Barton in the bottom of the first inning and his sacrifice fly in the third plated Jacob Sablan. 

The Mules used five pitchers in the loss. Freshman Jordan Brillo, the fourth Leilehua pitcher on the bump Saturday, logged two scoreless innings of relief. 

Leilehua has lost nine of its last 10 games following a 2-0 start to the regular season. 

The game was a rematch of last year's OIA Division I championship game. Campbell won that game by a score of 10-3 and was also victorious in its first meeting against the Mules earlier this season, 3-1, back on March 27 in Ewa Beach. 

Campbell will host East No. 6 seed Castle in a first-round game Tuesday. 

The top six teams out of the OIA will quality for next month's Wally Yonamine Foundation/HHSAA Division I State Championships.