Comments on: Experience lifts No. 1 ‘Iolani over No. 4 Saint Louis

By: ILH

ILH — Fri, 02 Mar 2018 19:23:21 +0000

AieaBoy March 1, 2018 5:53 pm
Held back or not these kids are ballers. That St. Louis kid Lomavita played against us in Maui last Summer for the Little League Junior 13-14 yr old State Tournament. He’s the real deal. Good thing he didn’t stay at Campbell Coach Rory would have another Gem from Ewa Beach. I must say there is some ballers out of Ewa Beach.

What if there was no private schools? What would the landscape of teams look like?

There would be a lot of butthurt parents whose kids were once starters now sit on the bench. #trueff.

By: Coach/Fan

Coach/Fan — Fri, 02 Mar 2018 18:51:38 +0000

Oh, and I’m referring to OIA head coaches. NO ILH coach can coach during the winter, not even assistants.

By: Coach/Fan

Coach/Fan — Fri, 02 Mar 2018 18:45:22 +0000

I’ve seen with my own eyes OIA coaches coaching their teams in the Winter Leagues for both Softball and baseball. Even spoken to a few of them. Even they wondered why the ILH coaches weren’t able to coach during the winter.
I’m not going to name the schools as I don’t want to get those coaches in trouble, but the OIA coaches do coach before the first day of practice.

By: Opinion

Opinion — Fri, 02 Mar 2018 15:17:34 +0000

Coach/fan
You are dead wrong. No head coaches are allowed to coach during fall/winter season. That includes the OIA. Same rule applies for basketball during the the fall. Assistant coaches can coach, not head coaches. There is a first day of official practice set for the entire state. This season for baseball it was January 29. However a huge advantage for the ILH is having intermediate teams. Schools like Punahou, Iolani and St. Louis have 2 intermediate teams which allows kids to learn the system and play games. Like a “farm system”. Non existent for OIA schools.

Level playing field kids from all over the state do transfer to OIA schools. Huge example is Bartolotti, Maui high’s beat pitcher the last 2 years is now Kapolei’s best player this year in softball. Pitched a CG and hit 2 homeruns against Mililani on Tuesday.

By: AieaBoy

AieaBoy — Fri, 02 Mar 2018 03:53:56 +0000

Held back or not these kids are ballers. That St. Louis kid Lomavita played against us in Maui last Summer for the Little League Junior 13-14 yr old State Tournament. He’s the real deal. Good thing he didn’t stay at Campbell Coach Rory would have another Gem from Ewa Beach. I must say there is some ballers out of Ewa Beach.

What if there was no private schools? What would the landscape of teams look like?

By: Coach/Fan

Coach/Fan — Fri, 02 Mar 2018 03:04:56 +0000

How’s this for a level playing field? The ILH coaches can only do conditioning and weightlifting in the months leading up to tryouts (baseball and softball, not sure of other sports), but the OIA and outer islands can coach their teams during the winter leagues. In other words, when the season starts, the ILH coaches have only worked with their kids for 3-4 weeks while the OIA coaches have been working with their teams for months.
Not sure how pre-season results affect State Tournament seedlings later on, but if it does have an impact, that’s not totally fair either.
But yes, the ILH holding back students a grade doesn’t seem fair. But they have to be a certain age to play in the State Tourney so it’s not like they’re holding them back a number of years.

By: level playing field

level playing field — Thu, 01 Mar 2018 23:32:26 +0000

but why cant oia do that? why cant all oia school get kids from all over the state ad island without having to get a GE? Because they aint the ilh and parents aint paying thousands of dollars? should be a level playing field across the board

By: Opinion

Opinion — Thu, 01 Mar 2018 23:08:13 +0000

Kubo, M. yonamine, a bunch of crusaders, majority of the MPI roster all held back. It’s a parental decision. College coaches could care less if kids was held back. All that matters to colleges is 5 years to play 4 after graduation.

By: ILH

ILH — Thu, 01 Mar 2018 19:57:12 +0000

JustAThought February 28, 2018 9:54 pm
Great Game Starting off the season Iolani Started Off Aggressive early.

Key momentum swing was when Home Ump stop the Saint Louis Dugout from Cheering in the 5th. Bases loaded one out Iolani up 6-4, Ump gave SaintLouis Dugout a warning saying that they was cheering too loud, it was bothering the Pitcher?? but rewind to the 1st and 2nd inning when Iolani had their run. They was loud which I thought was a great baseball atmosphere for the Game. The Saint Louis Pitcher was rattled. Don’t understand that rule?

Sounds about right.

By: older than they are

older than they are — Thu, 01 Mar 2018 18:32:47 +0000

thats also a case with ilh, majority of their athletes are a grade lower than they are supposed to be. another advantage to being ilh. i guess jokes on the parents again cuz the school is making an extra years tuition.