Baseball

Sometimes if you put the work in and you remain positive, things have a way of working out in a nice package for you. Take Kila Ka‘aihue, for instance. He spent 14 years playing professional baseball, including parts of four seasons in the majors. The work … it’s in. Staying positive? Well, he has 4-year-old twins and they were the reason why he decided to call it a career and come home. Simply put, he set out to be the […]

Kila Kaaihue is Kaiser’s new baseball coach. He was hired Sunday by principal Justin Mew. The former major league slugger who played his high school ball at ‘Iolani retired as an active professional player in 2015. Aside from taking the Cougars job, Kaaihue is also planning to go to college to get a business degree, according to Kaiser acting athletic director Bryan Almadova. “He was so excited and his wife was so excited when he found out he got the […]

On the Valley Isle, there has always been an undercurrent of townies and Upcountry folks riding slightly different waves toward their destinations. Up north, though, living off the grid in the original gated community, recent Baldwin graduate Kawena Alo-Kaonohi gets a taste of the life he loves most. It’s not a heavy dose; he goes to Kahakuloa Village, miles up the coast from Wailuku, where the paved road ends, for weekend stays with his father, Chico. “Kahakuloa Valley, it’s a […]

The man with the black-and-orange bat and the smoothest method of collecting baseballs on the prep diamond is named after, well, a basketball legend. Jordan Macias picked up a (toy) bat and started swinging long before he could do much of anything else. Roughly 15 years later, the Campbell shortstop is the Star-Advertiser position player of the year. He hit .542 and stole 25 bases in 26 attempts. Besides that, he has stupendous range on the field and handles the […]