Baseball

‘Iolani’s Everett Lau plays third base. Last year, he played left field and occasionally pitched. He’s also a bowler for the Raiders and he is a two-time West region national champion inline hockey player out of the Kapolei Inline Hockey Arenas, the state of the art two-rink facility that was built in 2010. On Wednesday, Lau added the word “power hitter” to his resume. Lau blasted two home runs out of the park at the ‘Iolani field in an 9-6 […]

Fourteen times in Dunn Muramaru‘s time as the head coach, the Mid-Pacific baseball team has placed in the top three of the Division I state tournament. That includes five titles and six runner-up finishes. And just as telling of the resiliency of the program is the 3-0 record in third-place state games, when, after a loss in the semifinals, the team did not fold and came back with a win. Muramaru himself is resiliency personified. While other Interscholastic League of […]

Through the years, Mid-Pacific baseball head coach Dunn Muramaru seems to always have a crafty left-hander in his rotation, and he’s got a good one in Alex Oley. While sitting down at the ‘Iolani baseball field with an Owls fan Wednesday, it was made known to Hawaii Prep World that the smooth pitcher didn’t achieve success by talent alone and that he is one of the hardest working players this fan has ever seen. Despite giving up three homers to […]

There’s a snappy saying out there: “To win the game, you’ve got to be in the game.” For Gavin Concepcion and his Pearl City baseball team, winning has become the norm. Perfection? They’re 4-0 in the rough OIA West after defeating Waianae 4-1, defending state champion Campbell 4-2, winning on the road at Mililani 7-0 and edging Aiea 9-8. Pearl City has gone from unranked (Week 1) to No. 7 (Week 2) to No. 2 in the Star-Advertiser Baseball Top […]

Tuesday’s feature on Mid-Pacific “Whiz Kid” Chase Wago had just about everything, including his penchant for solving mathematical problems. But it didn’t include some intriguing comments by Saint Louis baseball coach George Gusman, who knows a gem when he sees one. “I’ve seen Chase Wago for four years now. He’s been a thorn in our side. I’ve seen him grow from a boy to a young man. He’s talented, smart and he carries himself very well on and off the […]

The red birds of Kalani Valley are red hot. With a 2-1 win over No. 8 Kailua on Wednesday, the Kalani Falcons are a resounding 3-0 in OIA East play. Back up the tape and Coach Shannon Hirai’s team is on a hot roll. They went 3-0 in Mililani’s preseason-ending tournament, and before that, the Falcons haven’t lost since falling to Mid-Pacific in the Kitamura Tournament. The Falcons were newly-minted as a Star-Advertiser Top 10 team on Tuesday, just before […]