Baseball

Kapolei is getting used to a different level of baseball. Waialua is constantly working year in and year out just to keep a baseball team on the field. Metropolitan Kapolei does not need to look very hard to find players. In agriculturally based Waialua, sometimes players are few and far between. After the Hurricanes defeated the Bulldogs 14-3 on Saturday, the head coaches of the two teams had differing perspectives, too. “It’s all about developing for us,” said Waialua coach […]

Maryknoll leads ILH Division II with a 9-1 record. Pac-Five is in third place at 5-4. First inning The visiting Spartans load the bases, but come up empty in the top of the frame. Saints’ third baseman Micah Teal turns textbook 5-3 double play to get starting pitcher Jarred Yara out of trouble. Bottom of the inning, Sean Fernandez leads off with a single to left, advances to second on a sac bunt and scores on Royce Torres’ hard grounder […]

When people find out Lane Watanuki teaches at Campbell and coaches baseball at Leilehua, they don’t know if he’s a traitor or not. Many people ask him how something like that could have happened, and he gives a simple answer. But, no matter what, he’ll continue to get the question when new people learn of his circumstance. Watanuki was Campbell’s baseball coach for 20 years. Before that, he grew up in Haleiwa and went to Waialua High School, and he […]

Sam Delos Reyes has been at a lot of big games recently. The Campbell athletic director watched the Sabers football team just miss making the state Division I tournament, and then saw the boys basketball team lose by just two points, 29-27, in the state D-I semifinals. Delos Reyes was there on Friday night at Central Oahu Regional Park to watch the Campbell softball team deliver an 11-1 victory over Kapolei. That win was a bounce-back effort for the Sabers, […]