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The 2018 Wally Yonamine Foundation/HHSAA State Baseball Championships begin today with four first-round games in Division I at Les Murakami Stadium. Updates will follow below. Mililani catcher Korrey Siracusa, who has signed with Cal State Fullerton, was featured in today’s Honolulu Star-Advertiser which you can read here. The OIA champion Trojans open the tournament Wednesday against the ‘Iolani/Kalani winner. GAME 1: Campbell 3, KS-Maui 0 — Long layoff no problem for Silva, Sabers GAME 2: Kailua 3, Leilehua 0 —

‘Iolani coach Kurt Miyahira cautioned it doesn’t matter if the Raiders can’t get past OIA champion Mililani in Wednesday’s quarterfinals of the Wally Yonamine Foundation/HHSAA State baseball Championshis at Les Murakami Stadium. But if the Raiders do manage to survive against the Trojans, they will be set up quite well moving forward. ‘Iolani needed just 46 pitches from ace Trevor Ichimura, who threw four perfect innings in an 11-1 win over Kalani in six innings on Tuesday to secure the […]

The first two games of the Wally Yonamine Foundation/HHSAA State Baseball Championships have been dominated by pitching. Kailua’s Bryson Ballesteros threw the second shutout in as many games on Tuesday, allowing just two hits in a 3-0 win over Leilehua to give the Surfriders (13-3) their first win to open the state tournament in four years. Campbell’s Ayzek Silva tossed a three-hit shutout in a 3-0 win over Kamehameha-Maui in the opener. Kailua, the OIA runner-up after losing to Mililani […]

With the exception of Leilehua, which had to play a play-in game on the Big Island against Hilo on Friday, every OIA team entered the state baseball tournament with at least 17 days between games. In the opener of the Wally Yonamine Foundation/HHSAA State Baseball Championships at Les Murakami Stadium on Tuesday, Campbell seemed to have no problem with the long layoff. Left-hander Ayzek Silva needed just 78 pitches to get through a three-hitter and the Sabers played error-free baseball […]

Three of the last six state baseball champions in Division I are seeded in the 2018 Wally Yonamine Foundation/HHSAA State Baseball Championships beginning Tuesday at Les Murakami Stadium. MIL champion Baldwin, ranked No. 23 in the nation by USA Today, is the top overall seed, followed by ILH champion Mid-Pacific and BIIF champion Waiakea. OIA champion Mililani is the fourth seed. The Bears won the state title two years ago and are one of eight different schools to win the […]

Two-time defending ILH champion Damien is the top seed in Division II in the Wally Yonamine Foundation/HHSAA State Baseball Championships beginning Wednesday at Hans L’Orange Park. Kamehameha-Hawaii, which won the state title two years ago, is seeded second, followed by the KIF champion, which will be decided today, weather permitting. Kauai is the defending state champion after it beat Damien 5-4 in the final last year. No. 4 seed Molokai will open the tournament at 11:30 a.m. on Wednesday against […]

After going unscathed through the ILH’s double-elimination tournament to win its 14th ILH baseball championship under coach Dunn Muramaru, Mid-Pacific narrowly edged out MIL champion Baldwin for the No. 1 ranking in the latest Honolulu Star-Advertiser Baseball Top 10. These rankings will hold up until after the state tournament, meaning the Owls will be No. 1 when they take the field on May 9 in the quarterfinals of the Wally Yonamine Foundation/HHSAA State Baseball Championships at Les Murakami Stadium. It […]

With his team on the verge of accomplishing the improbable for the second year in a row, Damien coach Timo Donahue turned to the guys he did it with before. After St. Francis won the regular season title last year, Damien had to beat St. Francis four times in a row to win the ILH’s second division and the league’s lone state berth. The Monarchs were put in the exact same situation this season and Saturday’s game at Hans L’Orange […]