Kamehameha opens at No. 1 in Star-Advertiser Softball Top 10

The 2020 softball season may turn out to have the most parity of any in Hawaii high school history.

It begins with Kamehameha at the top of the Star-Advertiser Softball Top 10. Kamehameha (5-0, 2-0 ILH) collected six of 10 first-place votes to establish a comfortable lead over OIA West powerhouse Kapolei.

The Hurricanes are coming off a 2-1, 11-inning thriller over rival Campbell at McKinley Stadium on Saturday. No. 2 Kapolei (5-2, 2-0 OIA West) collected two first-place votes.

Campbell (8-3, 1-1 OIA West) is in the third slot. The Sabers won the Mililani Trojans Classic in preseason.

Two teams that played to a 1-all tie in the Classic were No. 4 ‘Iolani and No. 5 Mililani. ‘Iolani (5-1, 1-1 ILH) opened the regular season with a 26-1 rout of Sacred Hearts, then lost at Ala Wai Field 10-7 against the rising Mid-Pacific Owls.

No. 6 Mid-Pacific (6-1, 1-1 ILH) was potent in nonconference play with lopsided wins over Waimea (10-1), Maui (10-0), Pearl City (18-6), Kailua (8-2) and Waianae (9-0) at the Trojans Classic. The Owls lost to host Mililani 3-1, then lost in eight innings to Maryknoll 9-7 before beating defending state champion ‘Iolani.

No. 7 Maryknoll (6-2) began nonconference play with wins over KS-Hawaii (19-3), Kapolei Charter (1-0), Castle (9-3), Kaiser (13-5) and Pearl City (11-0) before losing to Campbell (6-0). Maryknoll received one first-place vote.

Roosevelt (3-3, 1-0 OIA East), which has won 19 straight games in the regular season, is in the No. 8 spot with Baldwin (6-5, 2-0) and Punahou (7-8, 0-1 ILH) tied for ninth.

Baldwin and Roosevelt have losses to unranked Moanalua (3-4, 1-0 OIA East).

Na Menehune received one vote. Other teams to receive votes were Waianae (11), Pearl City (nine), Leilehua (six), Kapolei Charter (three), Maui (two), Kamehameha-Hawaii (one) and Kohala (one).

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