Baseball

The words “baseball championship” have a nice ring to it. Those words had not been heard at St. Francis until Thursday, when the Saints defeated Pac-Five 6-3 at Hans L’Orange Park to finish off a whirlwind Division II league campaign. St. Francis (14-5) cruised through the regular season with a 12-3 mark to nail down first place, but stumbled a bit in the postseason tournament and was taken out of tourney title consideration with losses to Pac-Five and Damien. But […]

Jobs were won, jobs were lost. Jobs were won back. The internal competition for starting roles, contributing roles, any kind of role has been part of the machinery that makes this year’s Punahou baseball team intriguing. And even at 12-9, they are probably, as Mid-Pacific coach Dunn Muramaru says, the most dangerous team in the state. With a 5-2 win over Saint Louis on Thursday, the Buffanblu booked their tickets to fly off-island to the state tourney on Maui. The […]

The anguish was clearly visible. It was, in the end, a painful close to what had been, at one point, a dreamy baseball season for the Saint Louis Crusaders (11-7). That is the reality of athletics in the Interscholastic League of Honolulu, where as many as five teams were ranked in the Star-Advertiser Top 10 this spring. For Saint Louis, a 5-2 defeat at the hands of Punahou left that cherished second state-tournament berth just out of reach. It was […]

ILH champion Mid-Pacific will still be flying high when its baseball team lands on Maui. The ILH champion Owls were awarded the top seed in the upcoming Wally Yonamine Foundation Baseball State Championships at Iron Maehara Stadium beginning May 4. Mid-Pacific opens its tournament with a second-round game against the winner between OIA runner up Kalani and annual power Mililani. MIL champion Baldwin gets the second seed along with the home cooking, awaiting the winner between Hilo and Waipahu. OIA […]