Mililani girls soccer coach Ray Akiona just wants his team to get out of the OIA regular season in one piece.

Akiona jogged around the track and spent the majority of the first half on the other side of the field talking with freshman Kailana Kaeo and a trainer after Kaeo suffered an injury early in the Trojans’ scoreless tie with Pearl City at Pearl City on Tuesday night.

“(Kaeo) is a young one, so that demanded my attention more than the game,” Akiona said. “Not because she is a big goal scorer, and she is, but you want to see how the young ones react.”

After last year, Akiona can’t be blamed for wanting to know how much his players can take. His team played most of the first half of last season without TJ Reyno. He tried to get his team through the OIA and state tournaments without top striker Brittney Gideon. The Trojans failed to win either of them.

But Reyno and Giddeon, who combined for nine shots against Pearl City’s stacked defense, are back and healthy and looking like their old selves, and Mililani’s 4-0-1 record reflects it. Pearl City is 3-0-2 and has given up only one goal all season. Mililani has not been scored on yet, despite being bitten by the injury bug already this year. With his two goalkeepers out, Akiona asked for volunteers and ended up with fullback Brittany McClay in goal. Now she has a shutout to her credit.

Pearl City keeper Manaia Siana-Unutoa didn’t get a shutout, only because she started the second half on the bench because of disciplinary reasons. She stifled Mililani when she was in, though, making seven saves. She took the ball off an attacker’s foot on two of them, leaving a Trojan crumpled on the ground both times. Siana-Unutoa is one of just eight seniors for Pearl City this year, so she will be counted on to direct the Chargers’ three-fullback defense like she did against the Trojans. Given Mililani’s rule in the OIA until last year, a tie is a win for Pearl City. The OIA lets 12 of 22 teams into the playoffs and the Chargers are easily in the top half.

“Last year we had four ties and that killed us,” Pearl City coach Frank Baumholtz III said. “Now I feel like we have to win out the rest of the way and we have Kapolei in a couple of weeks. We’ll be in the playoffs, but we don’t want to be in a pool with a team like Mililani. We want to be in someone else’s pool.”

Mililani hosts fellow unbeaten Kapolei on Friday, while Pearl City travels to Nanakuli.