Mililani broke a 2-2 tie with two runs in the bottom of the fifth inning tonight and held on to defeat Roosevelt, 6-2, for the DataHouse Softball State Championship.

A capacity crowd of 1,200 at Rainbow Wahine Softball Stadium watched the O‘ahu Interscholastic Association runner-up Trojans finish the regular and postseason with a 16-3 record, ending with their fifth straight state title game appearance. They won in 2005 but lost the past three years.
The OIA champ Rough Riders (16-2) were making their first state title game appearance since 1986 and fell short in a bid for the school’s first crown.
Mililani trailed 2-1 in the bottom of the third but tied it on Glenelle Nitta’s RBI single, then took a 4-2 lead in the fifth after run-scoring singles by Kishti Kamaka and Jayme Robinson.
The Trojans had led 1-0 after Courtney Senas’ RBI single in the first inning, but Roosevelt scored two runs in the third after Kathleen Nakata hit a bases-loaded blooper into short left field that was dropped.
Mililani added two runs in the sixth after a bases-loaded infield error and Nitta’s RBI groundout.