Softball

The regular season and league playoffs are nearly over statewide with the upcoming state tournament beginning a week from Tuesday. Here’s a look at the state’s top teams in terms of win-loss record, including nonconference (preseason), against Top 10 teams. The best? A week ago, that was St. Francis (7-3, .700). As of today, thanks to three wins over the past three days in the OIA playoffs, Campbell is 11-4-2 against ranked teams with a .706 winning percentage. 1. Campbell […]

They practice at Palolo Valley District Park nearly every day. They are not, however, the Palolo Falcons. The Kalani Falcons are OIA Division II softball champions for the first time since 2010, and coach Kellen Hussey is not surprised. “I feel good. Four years of hard work,” Hussey said after Kalani edged Aiea 4-3 in the title game on Saturday at Tiger Softball Stadium. “This is what we worked for. There’s nothing to talk about.” Hussey was in the first-base […]

They are not robots, though their persistence and efficiency seem almost superhuman. The Campbell Sabers are certainly fueled by legacy. Their route to the OIA Division I softball championship may have seemed like destiny. It is no coincidence that their 6-3 win over the hot Roosevelt Rough Riders on Saturday night at Tiger Softball Stadium has as much to do with the intricacy of execution on all levels as it did with tradition. The stolen bases. The near-flawless defense. The […]

The pain was not physical, though a championship game loss kept rivers of tears flowing down the face of Roosevelt ace pitcher Jaeda Cabunoc. It was the broken dream of what could’ve been. As in what could’ve been an OIA Division I softball championship. Instead, the supernova of island softball, top-ranked Campbell, was simply better in a 6-3 win on Saturday night at Tiger Softball Stadium. Not eons or light years ahead. But the seasoned, three-time defending state champion Sabers […]

Mililani extended its record streak of state tournament appearances to 26 in a row with a 6-5 win over Kaiser on Saturday in Hawaii Kai. Mililani’s bid at a repeat OIA championship ended Thursday in an 11-1 loss to Campbell, which plays Roosevelt tonight at 7 at McKinley for the OIA title. The Trojans, who have won three of the last four OIA titles, still had a chance to extend their record streak of state tournament appearances, but had to […]

Even in the midst of a run of three consecutive state championships, the OIA title has proven elusive for the Campbell softball program. The Sabers have capped each of the last three seasons with a celebration following the state tournament final at Rainbow Wahine Softball Stadium, but not since 2013 has Campbell entered states as the OIA champion. Roosevelt’s OIA title drought stretches back to 2009 as the league’s power structure shifted heavily out West since. The Sabers and Rough […]

Maryknoll had remarkably chopped a seven-run deficit to one when Kiana Arcayena stepped into the batter’s box with the bases loaded and two outs in the bottom of the seventh inning on Thursday at Sand Island. But Arcayena still needed to reach base to extend the Spartans’ season, and by extension, her career. With Logan Carlos representing the tying run 60 feet away and Maryknoll trailing Kamehameha 11-10 in an ILH softball tournament semifinal, Arcayena took two balls then watched […]

In the vast universe of supreme high school softball in Hawaii, Moanalua had an opportunity to leave a mark. Na Menehune finished third in the OIA East and earned home field for the opening round of the playoffs against Waianae, the sixth and final playoff qualifier from the West. Ask Moanalua coach Dean Oshiro if eight runs — including two homers from senior Iyana Reed, a homer by Raven Rosa-Lasco and two triples from Kellie Kitano-Maguire — would give him […]