Taking full advantage of some extra swings, Mill Creek earned a return match — or two — with Issaquah in the title round of the Washington State 8-10 Little League Baseball Tournament.

Scoring seven unearned runs with two outs in the second inning, Mill Creek went on to down West Valley, 10-3, on Monday night at Aberdeen’s Failor Field.

Once-beaten Mill Creek, from the Everett area, advances to a title-round matchup with unbeaten Issaquah on Tuesday. Issaquah would claim the title with a win in the 5 p.m. contest. A Mill Creek triumph would force a winner-take-all second championship game at approximately 7:15 p.m.

Issaquah handed Mill Creek its lone loss, 4-2, in Saturday’s winners bracket final.

West Valley, which had survived four loser-out contests following a tourney-opening loss to Issaquah, placed third in the 13-team event.

Mill Creek pitcher Drew Pepin used unerring control to author a complete-game victory — an extremely rare commodity in the 8-10 classification. He used only 69 pitches (six fewer than the limit for that age group) in going the distance. The only walk he issued was intentional.

An eight-run Mill Creek second inning proved the difference.

Sam Linder’s single, Ryan Whitley’s double and Landon Thompson’s infield out produced the inning’s first run and tied it at 1-1. A muffed two-out grounder then scored the go-ahead marker and opened the floodgates for further damage.

Mill Creek quickly capitalized. After Lou Berg singled to left field, Lucas Poindexter’s pop fly behind first base — evidently lost in the sun — dropped for a two-run double. Pepin and Sam Craig followed with two more doubles. A couple of additional errors completed the onslaught.

West Valley cut the deficit to 8-3 on run-scoring singles by Connor Speer and Brandt Kneisler in the third inning.

That’s the way it stayed until the power-hitting Craig supplied the finishing touches with a two-run homer to left-center in the sixth.

West Valley’s Parker Mills had opened the scoring with a solo home run to center field in the first.

Berg, Poindexter and Craig delivered two hits apiece for Mill Creek. Poindexter also made several fine defensive plays at second base.