Softball

Mid-Pacific waited the entire ILH regular season before celebrating a win. Now the Owls will wait again, this time to find out who they will play in the championship game of the ILH Division I softball playoffs. Following an 0-12 regular season, MPI eliminated Punahou with a 4-2 win on Wednesday and rallied past No. 5 ‘Iolani 10-6 on Friday at Ala Wai Field to secure a spot in the tournament final. Their opponent is scheduled to be determined on […]

With wins over Campbell and Mililani to end the regular season, Pearl City earned the top spot out of the brutally difficult OIA West heading into the OIA softball playoffs that begin Wednesday with four first-round games in Division I. Moanalua and Kailua are still waiting to determine who will get the first-round bye out of the East as the No. 2 seed. Na Menehune and the Surfriders finished 9-3 and split the head-to-head matchups. Roosevelt (10-2) is the top […]

For Campbell, now one game behind the OIA West’s frontrunners at 8-3, it has been a week of torment. Five days earlier, the Sabers lost at home to Pearl City, 1-0, on an infield error during a Chargers steal attempt. That put a slight damper on senior day. This time, it was a laser throw from right field that denied them their best chance to push the game into extra innings. Campbell coach Michael “Shag” Hermosura has been tinkering in […]

The rock-solid mountain at third base is Merilis Rivera, and she has known her share of ups and downs. The nature of softball, both as a hitter and a third baseman, can be a loopy swing of highs and lows. Even for Rivera, aptly nicknamed “Mama” at an early age. She is, in many ways, a caretaker of the spirit for a Mililani team that is often conjoined at heart. In huge battles against Pearl City and Campbell within the […]

Pristine Mililani, with 56 towering pine trees in the sight line between the left-field and right-field foul lines, was an idyllic setting for a proper pitchers duel on Thursday. There was the resilient Kaena Nistal, appropriately named with her unique combination of historic and breathtaking skill and power. Leilehua’s elite-level potential has been driven in part by Nistal’s performance. There was the master of endurance, Misha Carreira, whose countenance rarely strays, always poised and arguably a marathon hurler with few […]