Baseball

Midway through the regular season, the ILH looked like a two-team race between Punahou and ‘Iolani. Two games into the ILH’s double-elimination tournament, the two teams remaining in the winner’s bracket are Kamehameha and Saint Louis. A roller coaster year in Oahu’s private league featured another roller coaster game Monday at Goeas Field as the Crusaders, who were outscored 31-12 in two regular-season losses to ‘Iolani, erased a 5-0 deficit and pulled out a 7-6 victory over the Raiders. Saint […]

After finishing tied for first in the OIA West at 10-2, defending league champion Mililani earned the tiebreaker over Campbell to serve as the top seed entering Wednesday’s OIA baseball playoffs. Kailua, which has won three of the last seven OIA titles, and Kaiser earned the top two seeds out of the East. Waipahu and Radford are the top two seeds and earned byes in the six-team Division II tournament that begins Thursday. The Sabers and Trojans, who are tied […]

The Mililani Trojans have been a tough team for voters to figure out this season. Ranked as high as No. 5 five weeks ago, the Trojans dropped to a season-low No. 10 last week. But wins over Campbell and Pearl City moved the Trojans into a first-place tie with the Sabers at 10-2 to end the OIA West season. They are also tied in the latest Honolulu Star-Advertiser Baseball Top 10 with 43 votes apiece to share the No. 5 […]

With the way Kamehameha’s Kelena Sauer was throwing against Mid-Pacific, one run was all he needed. Beau Sylvester made sure he got it. Sylvester broke a scoreless tie with a two-out RBI double in the bottom of the sixth inning and Sauer worked a perfect seventh inning to complete a 1-0 shutout over the Owls (7-8) to open the ILH double-elimination tournament on Saturday at Ala Wai field. Sauer struck out five, walked one and allowed two infield hits for […]

The Saint Louis Crusaders endured cold temperatures, rain and wind in Las Vegas, but returned home better for the effort. Saint Louis, ranked No. 3 in the Star-Advertiser Baseball Top 10, posted a 2-1 win over host Bishop Gorman at the inaugural All-Catholic Classic this week. The Crusaders went 1-3, losing to St. Rita (Ill.) 6-3, Juan Diego (Utah) 7-6 and nationally-ranked St. Laurence (Ill.) 6-4. Bishop Gorman reached the finals, losing to De La Salle (Calif.). “We pitched well. […]

A seven-game winning streak has earned Campbell its highest ranking of the season. The Sabers (9-1 OIA West) are at No. 4 in the latest Honolulu Star-Advertiser Baseball Top 10 released today. It’s the highest ranking by an OIA school this season. Baldwin (12-0 MIL) has held the top spot every week of the season with Punahou (13-2 ILH) ranked second for the second consecutive week and Saint Louis (12-3 ILH) again checking in at No. 3. The Sabers moved […]

Alakai Aglipay built a name for himself at a very young age as one of the players on the Little League World Series championship team from Ewa Beach in 2005. He has continued to contribute to Hawaii’s baseball community and now he has the chance to make his mark as a high school baseball head coach. Last week, Aglipay was promoted from an assistant to Maryknoll’s head coach to replace Eric Kadooka, who unexpectedly stepped down. The Spartans were 4-9 […]