Reigning All-Hawaii Player of the Year Danielle Cervantes throws a pitch to plate against Kapolei. Crizalmer Caraang Jr. | SL

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KAPOLEI - Two-time defending state champion Campbell wasted little time in dispatching host Kapolei, 10-0, Friday in an Oahu Interscholastic Association Western Division softball season opener.

All-Hawaii Player of the Year Danielle Cervantes pitched a no-hitter with seven strikeouts and Cienna Curran was a double shy of the cycle in a game called after five innings because of the 10-run differential mercy rule in the Hawaiian Electric Game of the Week.

Friday wasn't any different from last year's state title game, won by the Sabers, 12-2, in mercy-rule finish.

It was the season opener for both teams, who had their original openers rained out earlier in the week.

Cervantes (1-0) allowed only a first-inning walk to Ciena Kauhi. Dallas Pollard-Brownell reached on shortstop Alesia Ranches' fielding error to start the second inning, but Cervantes retired the next 12 in a row. No Hurricane came close to getting a hit. None put the ball in play past the infield.

Curran, one of four regulars returning, had a two-run triple, a beautifully-place bunt single and solo home run to center and scored three runs. She missed a chance for a double because the game ended before she got a fourth plate appearance.

"I just do whatever the coach asks me to do," Curran said of hitting away and bunting. "So whatever he calls, I just do it."

Hurricanes' starting pitcher Sadie Kapaku-You was tagged for 10 runs, eight hits and three walks in five innings. Kapolei also commited six errors.

"Lot of errors on balls that should've been managed better," Kapolei first-year coach Stacie Mahoe said. "Sadie did a good job of keeping them off-baanced. She got hit hard once maybe the entire game. I told the team, we managed the hard-hit balls right at us. It was the junk-ball hits that we had trouble with. It was tiny thing. A few more plays - we make those routine plays - it's a very different ball game."

Cervantes had struck out seven of the first 10 batters she faced. Kauhi had a nine-pitch at-bat before grounding out after Cervantes struck out Chasity McKean for the seventh K. Five of the last six Kapolei batters grounded out, while the other popped out in the infield.

Cervantes, who is nursing some back pain, admitted getting tired the second time through the lineup.

"I guess they started to see (my pitches)," Cervantes said. "On my part, I know I need to work a little harder. I wasn't expecting me to die out. It was really hot, but I'm no making excuses."

Cervantes commanded all corners of the strike zone against a Kapolei team that returned its top five batters in the order. Her pitches appeared to have good movement.

"We've been working on that," Campbell coach Shag Hermosura said. "Different type of pitches, different speeds. Changing the eyes. Keeping the batter off-balanced. Last year, everything was fast. Now, there's different type of movement. We should be all right."

For the Hurricanes, it was a matter of time they could no make up because of the 10-run rule shortened the game.

"If we can get ourselves through the lineup a little bit more, give ourselves a better chance of offense," Mahoe said. "We started hitting the ball the second time through and a third time through would've been even better than that. But we need to keep ourselves in the game a little bit."

It was the first time in a while the Sabers did not return the majority of their starters. Campbell's strength for years has been up-the-middle. While Cervantes, catcher Jocelyn Alo and center fielder Curran return, the middle infield is new with sophomore Ranches at short and Caisha Nunes at second. The Sabers also played without three projected starters, including returning right fielder Nikki Corla, first baseman Zoie Recolan and Trinity Favela, who was supposed to start at second. the three players are out with various injuries.

"Just to see the underclassmen perform the way they did today gave me a boost of confidence," Hermosura said. "I'm happy with what I saw today."

Campbell jumped on Kapaku-You by cashing in two walks and an error to score its first run followed by Curran's triple to left-center to make it 3-0.

In a three-run third, Chloe Domingo singled with one out and took second on Curran's bunt single before the two scored on Anastasia Iosia's triple to right. Iosia then scored on a relay throwing error by the second baseman to make it 6-0.

Alo, who saw a steady diet of outside pitches, had an RBi single in the fourth. Curran's solo homer to center ignited a three-run fifth. Dyllan Sanay's RBi double and Ranches' RBI ground out accounted for the remaining Campbell runs.