Kamehameha-Hawaii's Evan Enriques puts down a kill from the backrow against Kamehameha. Brien Ing | SL

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Kamehameha-Hawaii's Avery Enriques puts up a set against Kamehameha. Brien Ing | SL

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Kamehameha's Kaehu Kaaa puts a kill down past the Kamehameha-Hawaii double block. Brien Ing | SL

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Kamehameha libero Mike Horita passes the ball against Kamehameha-Hawaii. Brien Ing | SL

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Kamehameha-Hawaii players celebrate after a four-set win over Kamehameha. Brien Ing | SL

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KEA'AU, Hawaii — Evan Enriques never really got to enjoy his senior night a few weeks back, so he decided to send himself out in proper fashion in his final home game Saturday afternoon.

Led by a match-high 28 kills by Enriques, Kamehameha-Hawaii rallied to a four-set win over Kamehameha in a quarterfinal match of the New City Nissan/Hawaii High School Athletic Association Division I Boys Volleyball State Championships. The scores were 24-26, 25-22, 25-19 and 27-25.

Kamehameha-Hawaii improved to 14-0 and advanced to Friday's semifinal round, where they will play second-seeded Moanalua 7 p.m. at McKinley's Student Council Gymnasium. That match will follow a 5 p.m. semifinal between top-seeded Punahou and fourth-seeded King Kekaulike.

"It's funny because our senior night — which I'm the only senior — we had to play in the middle school gym because they had an event over here, so I was pretty excited that I could actually get a real senior night and I couldn't ask for more," said Enriques, a senior outside hitter who is headed to Stanford in the fall.

Kamehameha-Hawaii couldn't ask for more from its star Saturday. Enriques hit over, around and through the block of Kamehameha. He had 10 of his kills in the fourth set.

"Evan is Evan and when we need points, we go to him. When we're behind, we go to him and he just delivers," Kamehameha-Hawaii coach Guy Enriques said of his eldest of his four sons on the team.

The teams went back and forth in a thrilling match that was played before a crowd of about 200 fans at Kamehameha-Hawaii's Koai'a Gym. The hosts had a first-round bye as the Big Island Interscholastic Federation and the No. 3 seed in the 12-team tournament. Kamehameha, which was unseeded as the Interscholastic League of Honolulu runner-up, beat Kahuku in a first-round match on Oahu Friday then flew to the Big Island Saturday, arriving just hours before first serve.

"I believe it should have been the final or a semifinal and not a quarterifinal match," Guy Enriques said. "It's a shame it wasn't because it was such a great match. It went down to the wire. both teams were battling back and forth."

Kaehu Kaaa, who played transferred from Kamehameha-Hawaii after his freshman season, led Kamehameha with 21 kills.

"I think a lot of people don't know how good they are," Evan Enriques said of the Oahu Warriors. "They played a hell of a defense. Mike Horita is a killer libero. They played really good, but the thing I admire the most is they had to fly out here at 11, 12 o'clock, come straight to the gym and play. I just admired the way they came out and played."

The travel appeared to have a toll on Kamehameha, which fell behind 11-6 in game one after a 4-0 Kamehameha-Hawaii run. Kamehameha tied it at 14 a little later in the set after a 6-0 run of its own. There were 14 ties in the opening set, the last coming at 24-all. However, David Kaaa put down a kill and then teamed with Kahiau Machado for a block on game point to win it for Kamehameha.

"We were prepared for that, we talked about that and I wasn't surprised that they were fired up," Guy Enriques said of the Oahu Warriors. "In a sense, they were sort of the underdog because we beat them twice this season, so there were so many things that (Kapalama) could look at to fire them up — I had no doubt in my mind that they could come out fired up."

Kamehameha coach Kainoa Downing said that while he was pleased that his team won game one, he knew that Evan Enriques would figure largely in the rest of the match.

"Amazingly we came out, they jumped on us, we weathered, we came through at the end and we won that first game, but I knew that Evan was not going to back down," Downing said. "It's his senior year and he was going to do everything he could. I don't think he played his best match and so we were able to stay in there."

Game two was another tight affair that saw nine ties and five lead changes. The teams were knotted at 19-apiece before Evan Enriques scored five of Kamehameha-Hawaii's final six points to win game two, 25-22, and even the match at one game apiece. Enriques had eight kills in the set.

"I was so tired after the first set, I was real tired, but I knew I had to pick my team up," said Evan Enriques, who noted Kamehameha's defensive prowess. "I just go with what's working a lot. They're really hard to read, so I guess it's all about finding out what works and what doesn't, getting people hot and seeing what works from there, just feeling things out."

In contrast, game three was a relatively one-sided affair. Kamehameha, which committed nine of its 14 hitting errors in the set, trailed 21-10, but pulled to within 24-19 before being called for a costly net violation to end the game.

The teams exchanged runs in game four. Kamehameha held a 24-23 lead late in the set before Kamehameha-Hawaii closed out the game and the match on a 4-1 run on a Evan Enriques kill on a pike set from the backrow.

"I think we played steady and I think the best thing about us is everyone understood their roles," Evan Enriques said. "The first set we were kind of all over — maybe it was some jitters — but I think once we started taking it one step at a time, it really came our way."

Emmett Enriques had 11 kills with four blocks, Alapaki Iaea had seven kills and seven blocks for Kamehameha-Hawaii, which got 25 assists from Avery Enriques.

Breynt Cannon put down 17 kills, Kahiau Machado had 10 kills and Elijah Hew Len contributed 32 assists for Kamehameha, which ends its season at 11-5.

It was the third time the teams faced off this season. Kamehameha-Hawaii also won the first two meetings, which were both on Oahu.