WAILUKU — He may stand only 5-foot-6 and weigh 125 pounds, but Jacob Babauta came up big for the second day in a row for the Maui High School baseball team on Saturday.

Babauta, who transferred from Saipan last year, picked up his second save in two days with 3 2/3 innings of scoreless relief to lead the Sabers to a 6-4 win over Kamehameha Maui at Maehara Stadium.

The win lifts Maui to 6-0, while Kamehameha-Maui (4-2) fell two games off the pace in the Maui Interscholastic League Division I standings.

On Friday night, Babauta retired nine of the 10 batters he faced to pick up the save in a 1-0 win over the Warriors. After that game — his first significant action in an MIL contest — he said he hoped to pitch again Saturday.

He got his wish with one out in the fourth and the Warriors within a run after an RBI double by Noah Facuri. A sacrifice bunt moved Facuri to third, but Babauta ended the threat by striking out Jordan Camara.

Babauta struck out three with a mixture of fastballs, change-ups and curveballs, walked none and retired 11 of the 14 batters he faced, including the last six in a row. One of the hitters to reach base did so on an error.

''I felt good, I felt great,'' said Babauta, known as ''Saipan'' to his teammates and coaches, to The Maui News. ''My arm felt good when I woke up. That is a tough line-up, but I didn't have any pressure. I was just trying to throw strikes and hit my targets. I hope to pitch the next game, too.''

The game started well for the Warriors, who managed just three hits on Friday.

Camara walked to open the game and Aaron Asato promptly put the Warriors ahead with a triple to the right field wall on a ball that Maui right fielder Justin Fontanilla dove at trying to catch.

Isaiah Kaneakua made it 2-0 with an RBI single to center and Mason Castillon singled in Kaneakua two outs later.

The Sabers got within one in the bottom of the second when Jordan Agcaoili stole home on a missed squeeze bunt attempt and Fontanilla had a run-scoring single.

Agcaoili gave the Sabers a 5-3 lead in the third with a three-run homer over the 370-foot sign in left-center field.

Agcaoili led Maui's eight-hit attack with a 3-for-3 day that also included two runs.

''Our bats really came alive today,'' Maui coach Lee Yonamine said. ''That shot that Jordan hit was a bomb and it is nice to see us hitting like that.''

The two runners on base in front of Agcaoili reached on an error — one of four on the day for the Warriors — and a walk.

The loss gave the Sabers a sweep of the season series with Kamehameha-Maui. Considering the possible tiebreaker advantage that goes with the sweep, it was a big loss for the Warriors.

''This is a tough loss to eat. We came out today and started well,'' Kamehameha coach Brandon Kanamu said. ''But we have to take care of the baseball better than that and give our pitchers some support. We also like to play small ball, but you can't do that without base runners and we didn't have many of those after the first inning.''

Kaneakua and Castillon each had a pair of singles for the Warriors.

Kamehameha got its final run in the fourth on Facuri's double, but then Babauta shut the door and nailed down the win for starter Alika Aheong. Maui gave Babauta an insurance run in the fifth when a run scored on an error.

The Warriors had a three-game week and brought back Wednesday starting pitcher Kaneakua — a 10-3 winner over St. Anthony — to get out of a bases-loaded, one-out jam. He did with a strikeout and a pop fly.

The Warriors couldn't break through against Babauta, however.

''What a week for Saipan,'' Yonamine said. ''That was a big sweep and a great week for him. He threw strikes, kept the ball low. In the preseason, he pitched well, but now he is getting better every day.

''I asked him this morning how he felt and he said he was ready. To have a guy who can come back and recover that fast — shoot, he pitched three innings last night — is big. Back-to-back capability is really nice to have.''

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Aaron Asato, Isaiah Kaneakua (5) and Mason Castillon. Alika Aheong, Jacob Babauta (4) and Jordan Inamasu. W—Aheong. L—Asato. Sv—Jacob Babauta, 2. 2B—KSM, Noah Facuri. 3B—KSM, Asato. HR—MH, Jordan Agcaoili.

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