WAILUKU >> The first game of the First Hawaiian Bank/HHSAA State Football Championships wasn’t much of one.

MIL champion Lahainaluna demolished OIA regular-season champion Waipahu 52-14 to advance to the Division II semifinals of the state tournament for the seventh consecutive year.

The Lunas (7-4) scored two defensive touchdowns in the first half as a late-arriving crowd at War Memorial Stadium on Friday night saw the scoreboard read 38-0 at halftime.

“We feel real good about it,” Lahainaluna co-head coach Garret Tihada said. “It all comes down to blocking and tackling and we felt that if we could get off their blocks and put some pressure on the quarterback and try to mix him up on his reads a little bit we might have a chance.”

Elijah Ragudo rushed for three touchdowns and 78 of Lahainaluna’s 296 total rushing yards. Radon Sinenci added a touchdown run and a team-high 80 rushing yards and Joshua Tihada scored on a 5-yard run in the fourth quarter to match Lahainaluna’s previous state tournament high of 52 points done twice before.

The Lunas will travel to the Big Island to play second-seeded Konawaena on Nov. 12.

“Coming into this game we were pretty confident,” Ragudo said. “The team was moving the ball really good and honestly, I was kind of nervous (before) the game, but the team pumped me up pretty good.”

Lahainaluna scored on its first two possessions, with Sinenci’s 24-yard touchdown run the only play of the second drive.

Dayton Felicilda, who also recovered a fumble, ended Waipahu’s best drive of the half with an 84-yard interception return for a touchdown off a screen pass that bounced off a receiver.

“Stopping their running was huge and, offensively, running the ball we did good,” Felicilda said. “(On the pick-6) I saw the screen and that’s my screen guy, so I ran up. I knew I was late, but the ball was tipped in the air and I just took it and ran.”

The Lunas made it 28-0 when Viliami Hafoka sacked Waipahu quarterback Braden Amorozo and forced a fumble that was recovered by Josaiah Sombelon-McEwen in the end zone.

Amorozo was hurt on the play and helped off the field, forcing Ezekiel Reyes, who hadn’t attempted a pass all season, to take over at quarterback.

Ragudo’s second touchdown run of the game capped a 13-play, 97-yard drive for a 35-0 Lunas lead and Pablo Rico kicked a 22-yard field goal for the 38-point halftime lead.

Amorozo returned to start the second half and threw a 22-yard touchdown pass to Alfred Failauga in the third quarter to avoid the shutout.

He was 10-for-18 for 200 yards and two touchdowns with three interceptions.

“He played basically the entire second half on one leg,” Waipahu coach Bryson Carvalho said. “He kept fighting and that just goes to show the kind of kids we’ve got.”