Kailua scored four runs in each of the third and fourth innings yesterday and held off Hilo, 11-5, in the Wally Yonamine Foundation Baseball State Championship quarterfinals.

The Surfriders, runner-up in the O'ahu Interscholastic Association, improved to 13-4 in the regular and postseason and will face Moanalua (13-4, OIA third place) in today's 4 p.m. semifinal at Les Murakami Stadium.

Third-seeded Hilo took a 1-0 lead in the third inning after Devon Kell led off with a single, advanced to second on Anson Arakaki's groundout and scored on Dustin Devera's double to center field.

But Kailua answered with four runs in the bottom half — all after two outs. Jared Iha came home from second after Ryan McMonigle's single was misplayed in right field, and Alika Ramseyer-Ho followed with a two-run single to left, which was also misplayed.

Ramseyer-Ho then scored on Keoki Reis-Moniz's single to right.

"That was a big blow to us," Hilo coach Warren Arakaki said of the four-run inning. "We haven't made many errors in the outfield this season. But we also didn't pitch well; we made mistakes with two strikes."

The Big Island Interscholastic Federation champ Vikings (12-2) got a run back in the fourth after Kaileolani Paniku's sacrifice fly, but the Surfriders struck again in the bottom half. They got four more runs on RBI singles by Kale Sumner and McMonigle and Ramseyer-Ho's two-run double.

Ramseyer-Ho, who pitched 5 1/3 shutout innings of relief in Wednesday's 11-inning victory over Maui, finished 3 for 4 with four RBIs.

"We had to dig down deep and come through," said Ramseyer-Ho, a sophomore who played first base yesterday.

Kailua added three runs in the fifth after RBI singles by Iha and McMonigle and Bob Lastimosa's RBI double.

HILO (12-2) 001 103 0— 5 7 3

KAILUA (13-4) 004 430 X—11 15 1

Kendal Ushijima, Sydnie Wong (4), Kaina Respicio (5) and Ridge Hooili-Haslam. Jared Matsumoto, Ryan McMonigle (6) and Kale Sumner. W — Matsumoto. L — Ushijima.

Leading hitters — Hilo: Dustin Devera double; Hooili-Haslam 3-4, double, triple, 2 runs; Kaileolani Paniku double. Kailua: Jared Iha 2-3, 3 runs; Sumner 3-3, double; McMonigle 3-4, 2 runs, 2 RBIs; Alika Ramseyer-Ho 3-4, double, 4 RBIs; Elia Lono 2-4, 2 runs.