Baseball

It was one of the oddest endings to a state championship game in the 59-year history of the Wally Yonamine Foundation/HHSAA State Baseball Championships. Playing in its first state tournament ever last season, Damien began to celebrate what it thought was a Division II state baseball crown. Kauai had scored the tying run in the seventh inning, but a player threw his helmet and an umpire initially signaled that the runner was out, meaning the game was over. After a […]

Four Division II teams will get to sample Les Murakami Stadium for the first time in the Wally Yonamine Foundation/HHSAA State Baseball Championships today. SCHEDULE Damien 8, Farrington 3 Radford (12-2) vs. Kapaa (10-3), 1:30 p.m. ———- Radford 3, Kapaa 2, FINAL BOT 8: WALK OFF WALK FOR RADFORD. DJ Kabua walks with the bases loaded and Radford is set to take on Damien for the Division II state championship tomorrow. TOP 8: Akana is nails yet again with another […]

Kailua had a pretty good idea of what to expect if it got past Leilehua and into the quarterfinals of the Wally Yonamine Foundation/HHSAA State Baseball Championships against ILH champion and No. 2 seed Mid-Pacific. The Surfriders used some of their time during the 17 days between the OIA and state tournament hitting against coaches that simulated the quirky side-arm motion of Mid-Pacific’s Shion Matsushita. That work seemed to pay off over the final two innings of Wednesday night’s tilt […]

Just about everyone watching at Les Murakami Stadium thought Ola Aina had put Punahou in the lead. With two outs in the top of the seventh inning and the tying run on second and the go-ahead run at first, Aina barreled up a deep drive to left-center, far from where Baldwin center fielder Anthony Hoopii was standing. Hoopii took off on a dead sprint and somehow managed to secure the ball in the palm of his glove to end a […]

No. 1 overall seed Baldwin will try to break a trend that hasn’t been kind to the top seed in recent years of the Wally Yonamine Foundation/HHSAA State Baseball Championships. Eight of the last nine state tournament have seen the No. 1 overall seed lose their first game of the tournament. Only Campbell in 2015 was victorious during that stretch and those Sabers went on to win the state title. Four more games at Les Murakami Stadium in Division I […]

A total of 23 runs in its first two games has ‘Iolani feeling good about things after two days of the Wally Yonamine Foundation/HHSAA State Baseball Championships. Junior Shane Sasaki recorded the first four-hit game in the state tournament since Mid-Pacific’s Tyler Yamaguchi in 2015 and scored twice with two RBIs to lead the Raiders to a 12-8 win over OIA champion Mililani in today’s second quarterfinal at Les Murakami Stadium. ‘Iolani (16-5-1) will play its first state semifinal game […]

For the first time in more than a decade, the Waiakea Warriors have reached the semifinals of the Wally Yonamine Foundation/HHSAA State Baseball Championships in back-to-back years. Fresh off a runner-up finish to Maui last year, the undefeated Warriors (16-0) were the first team on Wednesday to punch their ticket to the semifinals with a 6-2 win over Campbell in the first of four games at Les Murakami Stadium. Campbell puts two runners on in the top of the seventh, […]

Asa Kurasaki kept Punahou in the game with his offense and then helped the Buffanblu put away the Chargers at the plate. The senior third baseman finished a home run shy of the cycle and belted one of two RBI triples in a four-run seventh inning to rally the Buffanblu past Pearl City 6-2 to cap the first day of the Wally Yonamine Foundation/HHSAA State Baseball Championships at Les Murakami Stadium. Kurasaki, who doubled in the third inning to set […]