Baseball

Sometimes fans take for granted what athletes go through just to get on the field of play. Let Riley Guieb‘s story be a reminder of the persistence needed to fight through a long battle with injury. The right-handed senior pitcher for the seventh-ranked Punahou baseball team almost didn’t make it out to the diamond this season, but there he was on Saturday making a statement in a big game — a 5-4 victory over No. 4 Saint Louis in nine innings. […]

The Interscholastic League of Honolulu baseball regular season was supposed to end Saturday, but two teams will complete the seventh inning of a protested game on Tuesday. Before that March 16 contest was put under protest by Maryknoll coach Eric Kadooka, Punahou scored a 6-0 victory. But, due to a Buffanblu player hurdling the Maryknoll catcher illegally to score a run in a four-run seventh inning, Kadooka protested to the league and it was upheld. On Tuesday at 3:30 p.m. […]

Coach Thomas Perkins gave this advice to his second-ranked Kamehameha Warriors after Friday’s loss to Punahou: “Today’s done. We’re just gonna come back and be who we are and play our game.” It’s a huge day Saturday in Interscholastic League of Honolulu baseball. A regular-season champion could be determined, but if both Kamehameha (11-3) and Saint Louis (11-3) win, another game would be held next week to determine that title and a spot in the state tournament. But if one […]

Somewhere between the seven baseball state championships (2004-10) at Punahou and this first season as head coach at Maryknoll, Eric Kadooka has transformed and evolved one step at a time. Losing, though, still leaves a bitter taste. When he looked across the diamond at his former program, Kadooka saw the Buffanblu, a 7-5 team in a ruthless ILH chase, armed with talent and experience and depth up and down the roster. His own Spartans? Young. Just three senior starters, including […]

Major league scouts don’t announce themselves when they show up to a Hawaii high school baseball game and they don’t wear a badge identifying who they are. But they are here in Hawaii this spring checking out a handful of talented players and bringing back their reports to the big clubs. Many Hawaii fans are already aware of the MLB scouts’ interest in Kailua left-handed pitcher Joey Cantillo and Kamehameha right-hander Hunter Breault. But the scouting has not been limited […]

Kamehameha’s 1-0 victory over Saint Louis on Thursday at Goeas Field will stand. A protest made by Crusaders coach George Gusman was denied by the Interscholastic League of Honolulu, he said today. Gusman believed Warriors starting pitcher Hunter Breault was over the maximum pitch count. Breault threw 101 pitches against Saint Louis and also threw 20 on Tuesday in a 5-2 win over Punahou at Goeas Field. The ILH denied the protest because the rule is 110 maximum pithes on […]