Baseball

Just as he was in preseason and at the beginning of the regular season and even after an 0-3 start, Kaiser first-year coach Kila Ka’aihue was supremely confident about his Cougars baseball team after a 9-3 win over No. 6 Kalani on Wednesday. “We’ve got a really good ball club,” said Ka’aihue, who played in 126 major league games with the Kansas City Royals and Oakland Athletics before retiring two years ago. “They’re learning and getting better every day, which […]

For all of the chess games and field warfare and, ultimately, unmatched parity of the Interscholastic League of Honolulu, it took the existence of a new rule to make the season’s biggest game to date to put a wrench in the machine. It was mostly unanticipated. Few expected Kamehameha’s Hunter Breault to struggle*. He came away with the win as his team edged co-front runner Saint Louis 1-0 on a hot, still afternoon at Goeas Field. But he also walked […]

A March 16 baseball matchup that initially ended with Punahou beating Maryknoll 6-0 is now an incomplete game. A protest by Maryknoll head coach Eric Kadooka was upheld by the Interscholastic League of Honolulu, according to Buffanblu head coach Keenan Sue. The contest, which was played at Ala Wai Community Park, will go back to the top of the seventh inning with Punahou at-bat and leading 2-0 with runners on first and second. According to Sue, Kadooka protested Punahou baserunner […]

Jayson Kramer was exhausted, perhaps, but entirely thrilled. The route from college pitcher at Hawaii to pitching coach at Kamehameha has been unexpected for him. So was the route from college to teacher at Radford High School. In fact, following his career with the Rainbows, Kramer was eyeballing a future in law enforcement. Then came a chance reunion with a former teammate. “I was trying to become a policeman and I was in the process,” he said on Tuesday afternoon. […]

Tuesday’s ILH baseball tilt between No. 4 Kamehameha and No. 5 Punahou seemed destined to go the Buffanblu’s way. Twice, when the Warriors seemed ready to break through against gritty Punahou starter Kyle Uemura, the Buffanblu came up with SportsCenter worthy catches in the outfield. First it was left fielder Kai Terada-Herzer, who made a diving snare at full speed of a line drive by Micah Kinoshita to lead off the top of the second inning and rob Kamehameha of […]

The reality about the strange pre-game delay of 81 minutes on Saturday afternoon when second-place Saint Louis and first-place Kamehameha met for an ILH baseball game at Ala Wai Field is this: Not only were both coaches unwilling to play with only one umpire, but both we considering postponing the game. Game time was 3 p.m. on a steamy, sunny afternoon. By 3:30 p.m., fans sitting in the bleachers began to ask aloud what was going on. It seemed that […]

Somewhere during those breezy winds and a delay between the top two teams in ILH Division II baseball, the Saints of St. Francis found a reason to sing. As the lines were redone and the delay lingered on 17 minutes past the scheduled starting time of 6:30 p.m., the Saints paid no mind. Someone hit the play button on what sounded like an old-school boombox in the dugout. And before anyone could stop them, the Saints were lurching ahead, word […]

Punahou baseball coach Keenan Sue doesn’t mind his players playing multiple sports throughout the year. In fact, he thinks they are better prepared for baseball by doing it. “The great thing about all of our guys that are multi-sport athletes is that this is just another sport for them,” Sue said Tuesday after his sixth-ranked Buffanblu beat No. 4 Saint Louis 2-0 at Goeas Field. “They just come out and compete. They’re not thinking much about it.” Take Duke Clemens […]