Quarterback Jake Manning led the Lunas' offense, finishing the night 13-of-16 for 123 yards and a score, while running back Kailas McGhee amassed 124 yards on 13 carries, including two touchdown runs. Lahainaluna is ranked eighth in The Advertiser's poll.

Lahainaluna (7-1, 5-1 MIL), which was coming off its first defeat of the season, an overtime loss to Baldwin, struggled a bit initially yesterday, and led 7-0 at the end of the first half despite 115 passing yards by Manning.

"You've got to give credit to Kamehameha Maui,'' Lunas coach Bobby Watson said to The Maui News. "We kind of let ourselves down tonight, but that's to be expected after the Baldwin loss.''

Lahainaluna got on the board with five minutes left in the first quarter when Manning found McGhee on a 20-yard touchdown pass on fourth-and-4.

The Lunas allowed the Warriors (3-4, 3-3) just one first down and only 31 total offensive yards in the first half.

Kamehameha anticipated a tough battle for its homecoming game.

"We were expecting the same Lahainaluna team — their coaching staff was going to get their boys refocused and do what they needed to do, so we expected a battle and for them to do what they do well, and they did that tonight,'' Kamehameha-Maui coach Leo Delatori said.

Kamehameha quarterback Jordan Pu'u-Robinson was 4-of-12 passing for 43 yards and an interception, with all four completions on the same series late in the fourth quarter.

Blaise Smith scored for the Lunas early in the third quarter with a 43-yard punt return.

McGhee added a 49-yard touchdown run just over a minute into the fourth quarter.

Smith's 26-yard interception return set up a 22-yard field goal by Ivan Delaney that capped the scoring.

Pu'u-Robinson's four consecutive completions netted 43 yards, but after a penalty led to a fourth-and-25, McGhee recorded a sack that secured the shutout.

The Lunas' Matthew Lawless had six catches for 49 yards.

"Our guys played hard, you know, we seemed to execute a little better,'' Delatori said. "Both teams played hard. Hats off to Lahainaluna — they did well and they did what they needed to do.''

No. 5 Baldwin 20, Maui 0

WAILUKU — The fifth-ranked Baldwin High School football team welcomed back a nearly full-strength Chase Nakamura just when the Bears needed him the most.

Nakamura, an all-state wide receiver last year playing in his second game of the season after suffering a summertime knee injury, caught four passes for 56 yards and two touchdowns to lead Baldwin to a methodical 20-0 win over Maui at War Memorial Stadium last night.

Baldwin (7-1) rang up its sixth win in Maui Interscholastic League play this season and is now 28-0-1 in the league since October 2004. Maui High, which celebrated its homecoming yesterday, is 0-8 (0-6 MIL).

The Bears relied on sophomore Brock Shishido and senior Skyler Cabacungan — usually a slotback — to replace injured quarterback Jordan Helle, who missed the game with a bruised elbow suffered in last week's overtime win over Lahainaluna. Helle is expected to be back for next week's regular-season finale against King Kekaulike.

When Cabacungan wasn't running for his game-high 91 yards, or catching two passes for 44 yards and a touchdown, or passing for a score, Shishido was looking for Nakamura. The 6-foot-3, 185-pound senior receiver, who had 20 touchdown catches in 12 games last season, came through enough on a night where the wind and rain made things tough on offenses.

"It feels good, but I didn't play as good as I wanted to and I don't think as a team we played as good as we wanted to, but it still feels good to get back out there and get back into the groove,'' Nakamura said. "Practice really helped me this week. The knee feels good, almost 100 percent. I feel like I am ready to help this team in the state tournament.''

The Bears will face the third-place finisher from the O'ahu Interscholastic Association in the state quarterfinals on Nov. 17. The OIA playoff picture has been blown wide open by upsets that eliminated defending state champion Kahuku and Mililani — both on their home fields Friday night. Both teams were ranked in the state's top four, but neither will advance to the six-team Division I state tournament.

Nakamura caught two passes for 10 yards last week and had three drops. He didn't drop any ball close to him yesterday.

Nakamura's 13-yard catch from Shishido with 4 minutes, 47 seconds to put any doubt in this one.

"We had guys out banged up from last week's game and Brock Shishido came in and did the job,'' Baldwin coach A.J. Roloos said. "I had confidence in him that he would do it and the team did and he came in and led the team. Skyler did a good job back there, too. Skyler is Skyler.''

The Bears took a 14-0 lead at halftime, and Cabacungan had a direct hand in both touchdowns.

He caught a 39-yard pass from Shishido to open the scoring with 5 minutes left in the first quarter. The drive came after the teams traded punts to open the game. It covered 52 yards and took just three plays as Shishido's pass hit Cabacungan in stride in the end zone.

After Cabacungan replaced Shishido at quarterback, Cabacungan found Nakamura for an 11-yard touchdown pass with 5:16 left in the second quarter.

The second touchdown drive covered 60 yards and took six plays. A late hit on Shishido gave the Bears a first down on the Maui 21-yard line — bringing in Cabacungan to play quarterback. In the second half, the two alternated at the position.

Cabacungan finished the first half with six rushes for 71 yards and his one completion in two passes was the touchdown to Nakamura.

Nakamura, who had 52 catches and 981 yards last season in 10 MIL games, caught three passes in the first half for 43 yards.

One bright spot for the Sabers came when they held Baldwin on the final possession of the half inside the Maui 1. A pass interference penalty in the end zone gave the Bears a first down on the Maui 3, but three runs at the end of the half were stopped short.

The Sabers continually got into Baldwin territory, but could manage only two field goal tries that were both short.

"My hat is off to Baldwin,'' Maui coach David NeSmith said. "You find out how tough they are even without the key players in the game. Depth-wise, that is a great team. They are tough.

"Our main goal from the beginning has been to play hard all the way through. We are in transition. We had to do things differently than we did in the past to give us some sort of respect we were fighting for. I think we have gained it this year.''