With overcast skies above, a perfect storm was brewing on the Mid-Pacific Institute campus Saturday afternoon.

Top-ranked Mid-Pacific sent 19 batters to the plate in a first-inning scoring deluge that powered the host Owls to a 14-4 ILH win over Kamehameha.

MPI scored 13 runs on 10 hits in its half of the first inning. Five Owls scored twice in the inning and seven contributed at least one hit. Leadoff hitter Isaiah Kiner-Falefa came up to bat three times in the inning, sparking the rally with a single and later extending it with a three-run double.

"That was unreal," Kiner-Falefa said. "It was kind of weird today."

"We try to get a spark. Once we get that spark we just try to feed off the energy and keep everything going and play hard throughout the whole game."

MPI had scored 12 runs in its previous three games and broke loose early on Saturday as the Owls improved to 6-0 in league play.

"We couldn’t do anything wrong, every ball we hit went through. Sometimes it happens like that," MPI coach Dunn Muramaru said of the first inning.

"All these games we’ve been playing were kind of tight. It was the first time we got a lot of guys in the game."

The Owls took advantage of some early control issues for Kamehameha, scoring their first run when Daniel Fentriss was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded. Bryce Asao followed with the first of his two RBI singles in the inning and Brent Sakurai’s walk gave MPI a 6-0 lead before the first out was recorded.

Ryan Saiki, Kiner-Falefa, Marcus Doi, Asao and Cameron Igarashi later drove in runs in an inning that took close to 45 minutes.

"We had Thursday off, that helped," Kiner-Falefa said. "We just hit the cages that whole day. We didn’t have practice, but we were still here working."

MPI starter Trey Saito was the beneficiary of the outburst, and Muramaru used three more pitchers to finish off the game.

"We got three other guys who hadn’t pitched all season in the game and that’s a plus," Muramaru said. "We’re trying to get a little more depth. … We just have to keep it going."

Kamehameha got on the board in the fourth on Ethan Rosehill’s two-run homer to center field. The Warriors put runners on second and third in the fifth inning and extended the game thanks to Hoku Botelho’s RBI single and Kekai Rios’ run-scoring ground out to shortstop.

"We talked right at the end of the (first) inning about showing character and never quitting," Kamehameha coach Vern Ramie said. "We didn’t win the first inning, we won most of the rest of them. Proud of the kids, they played hard all the way to the end.

"A lot of these guys didn’t get a lot of sleep last night after the (Kamehameha Schools) song contest. We’ll be better for this game."

MPI ended the game in the bottom of the sixth when Bryce Nagata scored on Kiner-Falefa’s fielder’s choice grounder to bring the 10-run rule into effect.