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Building practically from scratch has a way of thickening the skin of coaches, players and supporters. Coach John Uekawa has that thick skin, but make no mistake, he isn’t numb to the ups and downs of his young Maryknoll softball team either. With just one senior on the roster, after years of literally building a program — the facility at Sand Island State Park is a thing of beauty and a penultimate example of giving, laborious hands — the Lady […]

There are the Houston Rockets, the NBA franchise that makes offense look so easy with James Harden driving the bus. There are the Atlanta Falcons, an NFL offensive juggernaut with Matt Ryan at quarterback and Julio Jones at wide receiver, a franchise that finally shored up its defense enough to reach the Super Bowl. Set any clock alarm to the Punahou time zone, however, if bomb-squad power and scoring on the softball diamond are needed. The Buffanblu (4-3) are on […]

For any coach, even Stacie Mahoe, it was not an easy task to embrace. Yet, nobody knows more about the Kapolei Hurricanes softball program. With the retirement of Tony Saffrey, who guided the ‘Canes to the OIA crown last season, as well as in ’04 and ’05, Mahoe was tabbed to take over a largely successful program after 14 seasons as an assistant coach. She was also an interim head coach for a season along the way, but that, of […]