Softball

Kaiser’s Seli Aholelei earned the OIA’s player of the year in the East in voting of coaches around the league. Aholelei, who pitches and plays shortstop, led the Cougars into the state tournament where she collected four hits and pitched in both of her team’s games including a complete-game loss in 10 innings to Kamehameha. Campbell’s Elisa Favela is the West player of the year and Precious Paulo-Myers of Nanakuli was judged the best in the OIA White. Campbell’s Michael […]

Maryknoll pitcher and leadoff batter Shearyna Labasan was named as the player of the year for ILH softball, the league announced recently. The Spartans’ John Uekawa was picked as coach of the year after the team finished as league runner-up and made it to the state Division I semifinals. The ILH first and second-team All-Stars are listed below. For a list of honorable mentions, visit http://ilhsports.com/ilh-all-stars-2/. ILH Softball All-Stars Player of the year >> Shearyna Labasan, pitcher, Maryknoll Coach of […]

Every impressive win was followed by a comment from the coach that they could have done better. Interesting. And effective. Several times during Campbell’s run to the softball state title, coach Michael Hermosura gave some positive postgame comments on his players, but he never overdid it. He always held back a little, and most importantly, ALWAYS said they could play better. Imagine that you are a player and you just played a great game and you read the next day […]

Aubree Kim was not nervous. The adrenaline was pumping too much for that, she said. The Mililani pitcher was in a precarious situation, though, in the Division I semifinals of the state tournament at Rainbow Wahine Softball Stadium. Holding a 3-2 lead against Maryknoll in the bottom of the seventh, Kim gave up a leadoff single to Bree Soma, and then Kamalei Labasan drilled a double to put runners on second and third. A walk to Maia McNicoll loaded the […]

Along with their work behind the plate, the winning catchers in the Division II semifinals of the DataHouse/HHSAA State Softball Championships helped propel their teams to Friday’s title game with their production in the batters box. In Thursday’s first semifinal, Nanakuli sophomore Kaila Burnett went 4-for-5 and drove in four runs in the Golden Hawks’ 11-2 win over Kamehameha-Hawaii at Rainbow Wahine Softball Stadium. Aiea senior Kallie Alama then went 3-for-3 with a home run and five runs batted in […]