Softball

It took 6 innings to figure this out. Actually, it took more. Down to their last strike, Nanakuli — epic, juggernaut, invincible Nanakuli — was about to get tapped out by nemesis Aiea in the OIA Division II championship game. AGAIN. Most sportswriters would have written a lead paragraph already, and much more. After being mesmerized by Aiea’s comeback ace, Poamai Tuli for 6 2/3 innings, normal teenaged kids might wilt and cave in. Not Nanakuli. Three hits and a […]

Alan Higuchi is looking ahead. His Aiea softball team is serious running for the Division II state championship — even after losing to unbeaten and No. 8-ranked Nanakuli on Saturday in the OIA title game. “They’ll be fine. I’m glad we have more games to play,” Higuchi said moments after the contest at Tiger Stadium at McKinley High School. Na Alii (10-5) had a superlative effort from Poamaikaikeikiokalani Tuli, a left-hander who had pitched her team to an OIA title […]

Roosevelt and Waianae traded two-out rallies throughout a dramatic opening-round game in the OIA Division I softball playoffs on Wednesday before the host Rough Riders emerged with a 9-8 win at Stevenson Middle School. The Rough Riders and Seariders combined to score 10 runs with two out in the first-round game with Roosevelt delivering the final blow on D-Dre Wright’s walk-off double in the bottom of the seventh. Wright’s drive into the left-center gap to score Mika Emoto from second […]

From the outside looking in, Cecil Hasegawa has a difficult time comprehending what has happened with the Kapaa softball program. Hasegawa, a longtime head coach at Pac-Five, says he doesn’t have any details about why six Kapaa players walked off the team last week. That forced the program to shut down, having played just four of its 12 Kauai Interscholastic Federation games. (Here is the full story in this morning’s Star-Advertiser.) “I’m sorry to see that happened, but that helped […]