Kaua'i's Wailana Borrero and Jessica Iwata grew up together, learned the game of softball together, and last night helped the Red Raiders win their first state softball championship.

Borrero pitched a two-hitter and Iwata doubled in Alyssa Carvalho from second in the sixth as Kaua'i beat Waialua, 1-0, in the final of the Data House Softball Division II State Championships at Rainbow Wahine Softball Stadium.

"Our go-to girls came through. Storybook ending," said Kaua'i coach Darrell Borrero.

Kaua'i, the Kaua'i Interscholastic Federation champion and No. 1 seed, finally broke through after finishing runner-up the past two years.

"Tremendous feeling," Darrell Borrero said. "It was just something that was eating at us all these years, and we finally got it done.

"What a way to win a championship game. Both pitchers battling. Couldn't get any better than this."

Wailana Borrero and Iwata, both seniors, played summer softball pretty much every year since age 8 under Darrell Borrero.

"(Wailana's) dad, our coach, I'm really close to her family," said Iwata, the Red Raiders shortstop and clean-up hitter. "He's like an uncle to me. He's been a good coach all these years."

In the Kaua'i sixth, Carvalho led off with a single to second off Marissa Keao, who finished with a four-hitter. Naja Pungan followed with a bunt to the mound, and the pitcher's throw to the second baseman at the bag was dropped on a potential force play.

"That one little 'E' we had at second base; made a boo-boo there," said Waialua coach Jay Keao, the father of Marissa. "But we'll learn from our mistakes and that's how we build character."

After a pop out, Iwata lined the first pitch of the at-bat to the gap in left-center to score Carvalho, and put two in scoring position.

"It feels good. I wasn't doing too good at first," said Iwata, who was 0 for 2 prior to the decisive at-bat. "I had to settle in a little bit. Just found a pitch I liked and drove it. My team got on base and I just did my job."

Kaua'i (14-1) was 0 for 10 with runners in scoring position the rest of the game.

The Red Raiders lost out on another chance to score in the inning when Pungan was thrown out at the plate on a ground ball to Waialua third baseman Gabrielle Maxwell.

Borrero, a right-hander, walked one and struck out six, including the game's final two batters. Both hits she allowed were infield singles.

"I didn't throw all my pitches today, but I knew what I had to throw," she said. "We discussed that we had to keep the ball inside so they can't extend their hands on it."

Fellow Kaua'i seniors Carvalho, Shereen Doi and Jori Jasper, all starters, also played in three consecutive state DII finals.

Borrero only ran into trouble in the fourth when Waialua had two on and one out after a walk and fielding error by the third baseman on a bunt. But Borrero fielded a grounder and threw to third for the force, and she fielded another comebacker and threw to first to retire the side.

"I grew up playing with her so we've been close," Iwata said. "She works hard and without her we would not have made it."

Marissa Keao, a right-hander, walked two and struck out seven for Waialua (13-2-1), the O'ahu Interscholastic Association champion and No. 2 seed. The run she allowed in the sixth was the only one she gave up in 21 innings in the state tournament.

"She came a long way," Jay Keao said. "She played many years and got the experience, and she knew this would be her final game for high school."