Baseball

Kailua’s Bryson Ballesteros tossed a one-hit shutout and Kailua is a win away from its third consecutive OIA title and 15th overall following a 1-0 win over Pearl City on Friday night at Les Murakami Stadium. The Surfriders (12-2) scored their only run on a sacrifice fly in the second inning. Kalua Neves led off with a single to right, and courtesy runner Brandon Sarae went to second on Dylan Kurahashi Choy-Foo’s bunt single. Stone Parker then laid down a […]

The ILH baseball season finally came to an end on Friday with ‘Iolani defeating Punahou 11-5 at Hans L’Orange Park. The game originally started a week ago but was halted in the bottom of the second inning with the Raiders ahead 7-2. Micah Miyahira‘s three-run triple helped ‘Iolani pull away to finish the ILH season at 11-3-1, a half-game ahead of Punahou 11-4. With the Buffanblu loss, Mid-Pacific clinched the ILH regular season and a return trip to states after […]

Sam Prentice called it “redemption.” Just over a year ago, a loss to Moanalua in the consolation semifinals ended the Chargers’ season in the OIA playoffs. On Thursday, Prentice and fellow Pearl City senior Cade Halemanu helped power the Chargers to a 4-1 home win over Na Menehune to advance to the OIA semifinals and secure a return to the Division I baseball state tournament. Halemanu held Moanalua to three singles and struck out 10 in a complete-game victory. He […]

Punahou is one win away from forcing a playoff against Mid-Pacific for the ILH regular-season title. Ryan Nishi’s three-run triple helped the fourth-ranked Buffanblu score 12 runs in the first two innings before holding on for a 12-8 win over Saint Louis on Wednesday night at Hans L’Orange Field. Kyson Donahue went 2-for-3 with two walks, two runs scored and an RBI and recorded the final three outs via strikeout on the mound for the Buffanblu (11-3), who won for […]

While Damien coach Timo Donahue met with his team after a 9-5 loss to No. 5 ‘Iolani on Monday at Goeas Field, many of his assistant coaches were gathered around a cell phone. They were checking in on St. Francis’ game against Pac-Five that was tied 9-9 in the seventh inning at Ala Wai Field. A St. Francis win would mean Damien would need to beat the Saints four times over the next two weeks to win the ILH and […]

A fourth team has climbed to No. 1 in the Honolulu Star-Advertiser Baseball Top 10 this season. OIA West regular-season champion Campbell, which opens the OIA tournament at home on Thursday, received five of 10 first-place votes and is the new No. 1, replacing Baldwin, which suffered its first loss of the season to Kamehameha-Maui last week. The Sabers had an 18-game, regular-season OIA winning streak snapped in 12 innings to Pearl City in March but have rebounded to win […]

The OIA baseball tournament will run Wednesday through Saturday with the Division I and Division II championship games taking place at Les Murakami Stadium on Saturday. Two-time defending champion Kailua will open play on Thursday playing the winner between Leilehua and Castle. The full schedule is below: Playoffs