Baseball

It’s a gorgeous, hot afternoon in Manoa Valley for another gauntlet showdown in the ILH. No. 4-ranked Saint Louis visits No. 1 Mid-Pacific. (Note: By the time Tuesday morning rolls around, we’ll have a new Baseball Top 10 in the Honolulu Star-Advertiser. Until then, these teams are fourth and first.) The starting pitchers are Dawson Yamaguchi for Saint Louis and Grant Doi for Mid-Pacific. First inning The Crusaders get a one-out double by Taylor Meilleur, but he’s left stranded at […]

Occasional showers have departed Manoa Valley in favor of perfect conditions. No. 6 Kamehameha (1-0 ILH) visits No. 1 Mid-Pacific (1-0 ILH). First inning The Warriors get their leadoff man, Kahoea Akau, on base with a single, but the next batter grounds into a 6-4-3 double play. Steady inning for Chase Wago, all strikes. Tyler Yamaguchi leads of the Owls’ bottom half of the inning with a walk on four pitches off Kamehameha pitcher Joshua Souza. After a fielder’s choice […]

Forgive Kamehameha-Hawaii baseball coach Andrew Correa if he’s a bit jacked up about the Warriors’ new field. After years of dealing with East Hawaii’s heavy precipitation, the Warriors now have a drainage system and artificial turf. “It’s the best in the state,” Correa e-mailed on Monday. “And it doesn’t flood.” The new field is all AstroTurf, and if that sounds familiar, it’s very similar to the same product that covered the field at Aloha Stadium for decades. “AstroTurf product works […]

It took Kamehameha an inning to overcome what Warriors starting pitcher Codie Paiva called “first-game jitters,” but the blue-and-white clad squad used a seven-hit, seven-run outburst in the fifth inning to best ‘Iolani, 9-4, Saturday morning at Hans L’Orange Park. Paiva, a six-foot, five-inch hurler, notched the victory after striking out six in as many innings. The senior also served as a catalyst at the dish, collecting two crucial doubles that allowed Kamehameha to erase a 2-0 first-inning deficit before it eventually […]

The state tournament is a long way away, but forgive defending champion Saint Louis if it does all it can to avoid Baldwin when it does roll around. Baldwin’s Michael Hooper limited the Crusaders to one run in a 3-1 win on Friday, yielding only six hits and striking out four. He wore out Saint Louis pitching as well, going 3-for-3 with a double and an RBI. Dawson Yamaguchi took the damage for Saint Louis. Campbell did its share of […]