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WAILUKU » Heavy rain washed out the final of the Wally Yonamine Foundation/HHSAA Division I State Baseball Championships on Saturday.
Rain clouds blanketed Iron Maehara Stadium all afternoon as a flood watch kept Maui residents on alert.
The title game will be played at 7 p.m. Tuesday in Honolulu. Mid-Pacific, the second seed, will play unseeded Mililani at Les Murakami Stadium.
"After carefully talking it over with our HHSAA baseball committee and both schools, we decided to play the game on Oahu on Tuesday," executive director Chris Chun said. "Both schools had already made arrangements to travel home Sunday and the University of Hawaii has made Les Murakami Stadium available to us. The island of Maui was an outstanding host, and I am saddened that the championship game won’t be played there this year. The HHSAA recognizes the inconvenience this has caused and apologizes to those affected."
Mid-Pacific (13-4) is the Interscholastic League of Honolulu champion. The Owls, coached by Dunn Muramaru, defeated defending state champion Waiakea and Campbell to reach the title game.
Mililani (12-7), coached by Mark Hirayama, is the Oahu Interscholastic Association runner-up. The Trojans knocked out Waipahu, top-seeded Baldwin and fourth-seeded Hilo to reach the final.
MPI has won four state titles, all under Muramaru, the latest one in 2002.
Mililani will play in its first state tourney championship game. The win over Hilo on Friday was the first in the semifinal round for the Trojans. There was only one game played in Division I on Saturday. Pearl City edged ‘Iolani 5-4 in the consolation matchup.