Baseball

As far as Corey Ishigo is concerned, luck and compassion go hand in hand. That might be true of any baseball coach who’s been around the game as long as he has. Kailua had an up-and-down regular season, always competitive, but trailed Kalani in the standings when the playoffs arrived. Then Ishigo and his team did what they often do: play with excellence. In the OIA Division semifinal round on Friday, the Surfriders banged out eight hits against three Pearl […]

Catching up after filing my story on the earlier semifinal, Kalani’s 3-2 win over Waipahu in eight innings. Kailua doesn’t score in the first three innings, but a line drive off the bat of Noah Auld hits pitcher Carson Okada in the head. The ball caroms to first base, where the third out is made, but Okada leaves the game. Pearl City, the first-place team out of the OIA West, scored a run in the bottom of the third to […]

Sunny, almost breezeless afternoon at Hans L’Orange Park in Waipahu. Partly cloudy and temperature is a balmy 85 or so. Kalani, the first-place finisher in the OIA East, is the home team against upstart Waipahu. The Marauders have Michael Price on the mound. Kalani has Duke Fujii. It has been quite a week already for the Marauders, who have, historically, one of the proudest baseball traditions around as a community. Waipahu was 3-9 in the OIA West, then upset Moanalua […]

Sunny afternoon at Kahala Community Park for this OIA Division I quarterfinal game between Kaiser and No. 5 Kalani. The teams split their series during the regular season. Kaiser ace Kamalu Simeona hurled the Cougars to a 5-2 win over Aiea on Wednesday in the opening round. Kalani ace Connor Zalewski is on the mound. Chase Asuncion is the starting pitcher for Kaiser. The winner secures an automatic state-tournament berth. 1st Simeona is hit by pitch with one out. Kainoa […]