Baseball

Radford was in the game it wanted to be in both times last year, but fell short in both the OIA and HHSAA championship games. It did prepare them for Saturday, when they again found themselves in the OIA Division II championship game. This time, there was no doubt, and the Rams broke through with a 14-2 mercy rule victory in five innings over Waipahu. “Knowing a lot of the guys played here last year, I think just knowing the […]

Campbell. Mililani. Epic. The Campbell Sabers and Mililani Trojans have a storied rivalry that goes far back on the diamond. Each of the powerhouse baseball programs needed to dig down deep on Friday night in the semifinal round to reach the finals of the OIA playoffs. For Mililani, it took a two-out bloop single by Waika Fukuda in the bottom of the 11th inning to eke out a hard-earned 4-3 win over Kaiser. “I told him to go out and […]

Kamehameha will have to resume its quest for an ILH tournament championship on Saturday morning after its game against Saint Louis at Central Oahu Regional Park was rained out midway through Friday’s game. Kamehameha was winning 4-0 halfway through the third inning when the game was postponed. The visitors used a three-run second inning to create its early lead, led by a double from Beau Sylvester and triple from Jayvn Pimental. Sylvester scored his second run of the game off […]

The Saint Louis Crusaders won’t be expecting any thank-you cards from the Kamehameha Warriors anytime soon. The Crusaders ended Mid-Pacific’s Cinderella run in the ILH playoffs on Thursday with a 9-6 win at Patsy T. Mink Central Oahu Regional Park. Until Thursday, the double-elimination format meant MPI’s state-tournament hopes were healthy and alive. The Owls had proven again to be ‘Iolani’s kryptonite, beating them twice during the regular season, then against on Wednesday to eliminate the Raiders from the playoffs. […]

The pain started to come in the second inning, but Kaiser’s Curtis Chung Jr. knew he had a job to do if he wanted to pitch in the state tournament. A year ago, Kaiser suffered a heartbreaking 2-1 loss in eight innings to OIA West top seed Campbell in the OIA quarterfinals, but the even bigger disappointment came a day later in a 13-inning loss to Kalani in the consolation semifinals. In a 24-hour span, Kaiser went from being on […]

In the midst of a frigid April, Mid-Pacific’s offense picked an opportune time to reignite. Following an 8-7 loss to Kamehameha in 15 innings on March 30, the Owls were shut out in their next three games, not including scoreless matchup with Pac-Five that was called in the third inning due a brush fire that threatened Central Oahu Regional Park. After being held to a total of seven hits in losses to Punahou (4-0), Saint Louis (1-0) and Kamehameha (1-0), […]

Leave it to a sophomore who hadn’t swung a bat all game to end the Damien curse. The Saints’ baseball team ended three years of ILH tournament frustration with one swing of the bat by Jayden Simpliciano, whose walk-off single scored Bubba Akana with two outs in the bottom of the seventh inning for a 2-1 victory over Damien on Wednesday at Hans L’Orange Park. Simpliciano, who came on as a pinch hitter, drilled a ball over the head of […]