Maryknoll coach Randy Yamashiro offered no explanation for his team’s 10-run inning.

All he knew was the timing of it couldn’t have been better.

The Spartans took all of the drama out of the Division II championship game of the Wally Yonamine Foundation/HHSAA Baseball State Championships, sending 15 men to the plate in a 10-run third inning to prevail 14-0 over Kamehameha-Hawaii on Saturday night at Hans L’Orange Park.

Three different Maryknoll players had two hits in the inning, which resulted in 10 runs on 10 hits. Trevor Hirano went 3-for-4 with a double and three runs scored and Neal Nakasone added three hits and four RBIs as Maryknoll became the second team to win two Division II state baseball titles.

The Spartans (11-3-1) also won in 2009, tying them with Kauai, which won in 2008 and ’11.

"It’s been so gratifying to see these kids mature into young men," Yamashiro said. "I can’t explain (the third inning). I won’t even try. We had an offensive burst or fire or whatever you want to call it."

Maryknoll was held hitless in three of the five innings it came to bat, but the two big innings were more than enough to beat the Warriors (11-3), who had to defeat No. 4 seed Kapaa and top seed Waianae just to reach the final.

"We had one bad inning and it was the worst inning we’ve had all season," Kamehameha coach Andrew Correa said. "I wanted to keep them from the 10th run, but nobody could stop the bleeding at that point."

The game ended after five innings due to the 10-run mercy rule. Maryknoll added four more runs in the top of the fifth inning for the final margin.

"We kept on going and applied what we are taught by our coaches," Nakasone said. "After every single hit we kept telling each other to keep hitting."

Seven of Maryknoll’s nine starters had hits, including left fielder Connor Donahue, who was 2-for-3 with three runs and two RBIs hitting out of the nine hole.

Phillip Aylward drove in three runs and Justin Ushiro scored twice.

The happiest person during Maryknoll’s big inning might have been starting pitcher Chase Uyema, who wound up with a four-hit shutout.

The 5-foot-7 junior struck out four and allowed his defense behind to turn three double plays, including the last one to end it.

"Their pitcher threw to our weakness, which is soft stuff away," Correa said. "We kept pulling the ball and popping it up and then they turned three double plays. That first-inning double play kind of knocked the win out of everybody’s sails."

Uyema faced three batters over the minimum to earn his second win of the tournament.

He was replaced in the sixth inning of Thursday’s

7-6 win over Konawaena and wanted another chance to lead his team to a win.

"The other night I wasn’t on my game. I was throwing more balls in the dirt and wasn’t locating my pitches," Uyema said. "Coach came up to me and asked me if I wanted (to pitch) tonight and I told him I wanted it bad."

Nine of Maryknoll’s 10 runs in the third inning were unearned. Starter Alika Young didn’t allow a hit over the first two innings and looked in command of his stuff heading into the third.

Nakasone delivered the game’s first run on an RBI single, but the Warriors could have gotten out of the inning if not for a misplayed fly ball in right field that resulted in an error.

Young hit Brent Hironaga with a pitch and Maryknoll followed with seven consecutive two-out hits.

When Uyema went back to the mound to start the bottom of the third, the game was already out of hand, but the pressure didn’t go away.

"It was definitely stressful because I didn’t want to give up that lead," Uyema said. "I wanted to get out of every inning as fast I could and just tried to think of it like it was any other game."

The score was much different from last year’s Division II state final, which Waipahu won 1-0 over Waimea.

The Marauders beat the Spartans in the semifinals in 2012, forcing Maryknoll to wait another year before breaking through for a second state championship.

"It’s an unbelievable experience, because for us to come back from that loss to Waipahu, it was pretty brutal," Uyema said. "We came back, worked harder and did this as a team."

Third baseman Bronson Pulgados finished with two of Kamehameha-Hawaii’s four hits.