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Campbell’s Ramos back in football mode

By Billy Hull on August 19, 2015

Campbell junior Markus Ramos spent 43 days away from home this past summer. Trust me when I say it was worth it. The 6-foot-3 wide receiver on the Sabers football team got noticed on the mound pitching for the Trosky Baseball traveling team. Despite throwing only “eight or nine” innings for the eventual state champion Sabers baseball team in the spring, Ramos was impressive enough early in the summer to draw attention from a host of Division I colleges. One […]

Waialua, Pac-Five look for new baseball coaches

By Nick Abramo on June 25, 2015

Two Oahu high schools are looking for varsity baseball coaches. The Honolulu Star-Advertiser and Hawaii Prep World learned this week that Waialua coach Terry Onizuka and Pac-Five coach Dennis Fukunaga will not be returning next season. No reason was given by either Waialua athletic director Bryce Kaneshiro or Pac-Five AD Peter Estomago. Onizuka went 3-7 with the Bulldogs in the Oahu Interscholastic Association Division II regular season in the spring, including a first-round playoff loss. Fukunaga and the Wolfpack went […]

Report: Kahaloa signs for $300,000

By Hawaii Prep World on June 25, 2015

MLB.com’s Jim Callis was the first to report that recent Campbell High graduate Ian Kahaloa signed a professional contract with the Cincinnati Reds earlier this week that included a signing bonus of $300,000. Slot value for the No. 145 overall pick was listed at $369,400. Callis also wrote on Twitter that Kahaloa had agreed to a deal for $400,000 before a physical raised concerns about his elbow. Kahaloa originally agreed to over-sized $400k but postdraft physical raised concerns about his […]

UPDATED: ‘Iolani hires Yonamine and Miyahira

By Nick Abramo on June 17, 2015

Dean Yonamine is moving to the softball head coaching ranks, and Kurt Miyahira is moving on up. Yonamine, the former highly successful baseball coach at ‘Iolani, is the new softball head coach, Raiders athletic director Wendell Look told the Honolulu Star-Advertiser and Hawaii Prep World on Tuesday night. Miyahira, most recently the JV head coach at ‘Iolani and a former Mililani assistant under Mark Hirayama, is the new Raiders baseball head coach, Look said. “I’m honored and excited to continue […]

Reds draft Campbell’s Kahaloa in Round 5

By Billy Hull on June 9, 2015

Recent Campbell graduate Ian Kahaloa was selected in the fifth round (No. 145 overall) by the Cincinnati Reds in the 2015 Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft on Tuesday. Kahaloa watched the draft at home with most of his baseball teammates. He received a text from his advisor where he would go roughly four picks before he was taken, but waited to say anything until his name was read aloud. “I just had the baseball boys (over). They were waiting,” […]

Hall pass: Ian Kahaloa

By Jerry Campany on June 5, 2015

Ian Kahaloa has raised the bar for baseball players in Hawaii. A year after Jordan Yamamoto of Saint Louis and Kodi Medeiros of Waiakea thrilled scouts and fans at the state baseball tournament, Kahaloa has earned something that neither of the professional pitchers has. Kahaloa will be inducted into the Enterprise / HHSAA Hall of Honor on June 7 at Dole Cannery Square’s Pomaikai Ballroom. He will be the first baseball player inducted since 2011 when Shea Shimabukuro got in. […]

Kahaloa, Tom in Baseball America 500

By Billy Hull on June 3, 2015

Campbell right-hander Ian Kahaloa and Kentucky outfielder Ka’ai Tom, who graduated from Saint Louis in 2012, are listed in Baseball America’s final top 500 draft prospects list. Kahaloa, the 2015 Honolulu Star-Advertiser player of the year, is ranked No. 113 while Tom checks in at No. 239. Kahaloa went 5-0 with a 0.16 ERA, allowing his only earned run in his last outing, a memorable 138-pitch effort in a 10-inning win over Kamehameha in the state semifinals. He struck out […]

Loo won’t be back to coach Roosevelt baseball

By Nick Abramo on May 29, 2015

Baseball coach Les Loo will not be returning to coach Roosevelt next season, a source close to the Rough Riders said Friday. The Rough Riders administration sent out a notice via email to the Honolulu Star-Advertiser’s sports bulletin board section Friday stating the school is seeking to hire a varsity baseball coach, but the notice made no mention of Loo’s departure. Roosevelt athletic director John Chung declined comment Friday.

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Campbell’s Ramos back in football mode

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Report: Kahaloa signs for $300,000

UPDATED: ‘Iolani hires Yonamine and Miyahira

Reds draft Campbell’s Kahaloa in Round 5

Hall pass: Ian Kahaloa

Kahaloa, Tom in Baseball America 500

Loo won’t be back to coach Roosevelt baseball

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