Mililani's Kini McMillan (10) scans downfield for an open receiver against the Hurricanes in the first quarter at the Alvin Nagasako Sports Complex. CJ Caraang | SL

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KAPOLEI — Kini McMillan passed for 305 yards and five touchdowns to lead No. 3 Mililani to a 42-21 win over No. 6 Kapolei in an Oahu Interscholastic Association football game at the Alvin Nagasako Sports Complex Saturday night. 

The Trojans improved to 6-2 overall and 5-0 in league play to keep pace with No. 1 Kahuku atop the OIA's Open Division standings. 

Mililani will visit Kahuku Saturday night in the regular-season finale for both teams. The winner will claim the No. 1 seed in the four-team league playoffs later this month. 

The Hurricanes suffered their third consecutive loss to fall to 5-3 overall and 2-3 in division. They will finish as the No. 4 seed regardless of their result against last-place Leilehua Friday night. 

McMillan, a 6-foot, 180-pound sophomore quarterback, completed 20 of his 28 pass attempts to seven different receivers. He was intercepted once. 

Onosai Salanoa hauled in four receptions for 149 yards, including touchdowns grabs of 55 and 85 yards from McMillan that gave their team a 14-0 lead late in the first quarter. Salanoa beat one-on-one coverage on the first scoring play and on the second, was the beneficiary of a fortuitous tip off of a defender's fingertips; He went untouched on both long touchdowns. 

McMillan also threw scoring strikes of 9 and 18 yards to Makel Paiva and closed out the scoring with a 31-yard TD pass to Davyn Joseph late in the contest. McMillan also ran in a touchdown from 20 yards that in the third quarter. 

Kapolei got on the board late in the first quarter on Liatama Amisone's 20-yard touchdown pass to Halai Kamoalii. Tryton Keliikipi's plunge into the end zone from a yard out — to cap a 10-play, 65-yard scoring drive that was set-up by Pennsylvania Tuaopepe's interception of McMillan — followed by the Hurley Kennedy extra point, tied it at 14-apiece with seven minutes and 32 seconds left in the second quarter. 

The Trojans answered with a string of 21 consecutive points before the Hurricanes stopped the bleeding with a 38-yard touchdown pass from Tuli Tagovailoa-Amosa to Diezel Kamoku that cut it to a 35-21 deficit with 5:24 to play. 

Tagovailoa-Amosa finished 15-of-29 passing for 172 yards with an interception in relief of Amisone, who left the game at the 9:11 mark of the second quarter after he took a hard shot to the midsection from a Mililani defender when he scrambled for extra yardage. 

Amisone completed five of nine passes for 56 yards before he sustained the injury. He did not return to the game. 

Mililani posted 396 yards of total offense to Kapolei's 317. 

The Trojans recorded seven sacks defensively, three of them by Elijah Nua. 

The Hurricanes were penalized nine times for 102 yards. 

Tuaopepe also recovered a fumble and one of Kapolei's four sacks to lead the defensive effort. 

Isaiah Iosefa logged a sack, one pass break-up and an interception that the Trojans recycled into McMillan's 20-yard TD run. 

Mililani, which played without two-way standout and University of Arizona-commit Gavin Hunter, led at halftime, 21-14.