High School Softball

Kapa‘a secured its second straight HHSAA Division II softball state championship — and third in four years — with a hard-fought 7-5 win over Pearl City. After falling behind early, the Warriors responded with a three-run fifth inning to break a 4-4 tie. Key RBI hits from Jacie Martinez and Naylea Machado pushed the lead […]

By Wes Nakama Mililani muscled its way to an early 9-3 lead Friday night and then held off scrappy Maryknoll, 10-7, to repeat as DataHouse/HHSAA Division I Softball State Champion. A near capacity crowd of about 1,100 at Rainbow Wahine Stadium watched the Trojans hit four home runs — including Kahiau Aina’s three-run homer in […]

By Wes Nakama The Maryknoll softball team completed its upward journey from a young and inexperienced preseason group to ILH champion Wednesday afternoon by rallying past Punahou, 8-2. The visiting Spartans overcame a 1-0 deficit with four runs in the top of the sixth inning and Kasi Cruz pitched a five-hitter with seven strikeouts and […]

By Wes Nakama In a surprising shift in the OIA softball balance of power, three of the four league semifinal teams are from the Eastern Division. Kaiser, Kalani and Moanalua will join defending champion Mililani in Thursday’s doubleheader at McKinley. East runner-up Kalani (9-2) will face West No.1 Mililani (10-1) at 5 p.m., followed by East […]

On this edition of the Student Section, our guests were Pearl City Girl’s Flag Football’s Karyna Alvarado & Vivian Nguyen, Pearl City Softball’s Samantha Nakamatsu & Saunette Oshiro, and 2025 HHSAA DI Boy’s Basketball State Champs, Punahou’s Dash Watanabe & Houston Hosoda! Bekyk hierdie plasing op Instagram 'n Plasing gedeel deur ESPN Honolulu (@espnhonolulu) Mahalo […]

by Wes Nakama The Maryknoll softball team proved Tuesday night that walking can actually be a high-impact exercise after all. The Spartans took advantage of 11 bases on balls in addition to nine hits to pull away from Kamehameha, 13-3, in an ILH showdown at McKinley shortened to six innings due to the 10-run rule. […]

Moanalua dominated the game with a 17-1 victory over Kaimuki, collecting 15 hits while Kaimuki struggled with just 3 hits and 5 errors. Moanalua will face Castle in their next two games on April 5th and 10th, while Kaimuki will play Kalani on April 10th. Mahalo to these companies for supporting our ESPN Honolulu Hawai’i […]

By Wes Nakama Facing its toughest test of the ILH season so far, Punahou held off visiting Kamehameha, 4-2, in tense softball action Thursday afternoon. Senior pitcher Paige Brunn scattered seven hits and got a key strikeout to end the game with the bases loaded in the top of the seventh as the Buff ‘n […]

By Wes Nakama After opening the OIA East softball season with an 8-3 loss at Kaiser three weeks ago, the Kalani bats have awoken in a big way and stayed hot Tuesday afternoon in a 10-5 victory over visiting Moanalua at Kilauea District Park. Senior shortstop Ashlyn Sera went 3 for-4 with a home run […]

By Wes Nakama Last year the Punahou softball team barely missed qualifying for the state tournament, falling just one game short. This season, the Buff ‘n Blue are off to a clean 4-0 start in the ILH, making it known they want to be the team to beat. They made a huge statement toward that […]