Offensive barrage continues in Sunday baseball doubleheader By ROY MIYASHIRO Special to The Garden Island LIHU’E — High scoring games continued in the Kaua’i Americans of Japanese Ancestry Baseball League last Sunday as Kalaheo beat Lihu’e 10-5 and Makaweli slugged
Offensive barrage continues in Sunday baseball doubleheader
By ROY
MIYASHIRO
Special to The Garden Island
LIHU’E — High scoring games
continued in the Kaua’i Americans of Japanese Ancestry Baseball League last
Sunday as Kalaheo beat Lihu’e 10-5 and Makaweli slugged Kapa’a
24-9.
Kalaheo kept on top of the league standings with a 2-0-1 mark, but
three 1-1 teams are right behind — Makaweli, Hanapepe and Lihu’e.
Kalaheo
10, Lihu’e 5
Kalaheo jumped to a 6-0 first inning lead by banging out six
hits. Scott Serizawa and Kanea Kinimaka-Aranio each ripped two RBI basehits,
while Jason Koga and Kainoa Santos both had an RBI hit to pave the way to the
early lead.
The basehits kept coming for Kalaheo as they held on for the
victory.
Liko Pereira, Koga and Santos all finished the game with three
hits for the winners.
Lihu’e was led by Mike Cardinez, David Bukoski and
Blaine Tsukayama all with two hits. Tsukayama’s two hits were both run-scoring
doubles.
On the mound, Kalani Salazar took the win with nine strikeouts. He
had relief help from Pereira.
Tsukayama was the losing pitcher. Barry
Kawamura and Cardinez also pitched for Lihu’e.
Makaweli 24, Kapa’a
9
Makaweli hammered out 25 hits in the game, and they had a 7-0 lead after
just two innings.
The leading Makaweli hitters were: Ikaika Pezario with
five hits, five RBI and five runs scored; Micah Furtado with two triples, five
RBI and three runs scored; Kyle Nakagawa and Mike Shimatsu with three hits and
two RBI each; Justin Matsukawa with three hits; Joshua Maeda with a single, a
triple and three runs scored; and Levi Maeda and Eli Moniz with two hits
each.
Allen Mundon was the top Kapa’a hitter with two singles, a double and
an RBI. Darren Lacaden chipped in with a single and a double, while Reid Tamura
ripped a single and scored twice.
Makaweli’s big inning was the third when
they scored 14 runs for a 21-0 lead. Kapa’a responded with seven runs in the
fourth, but the uphill climb was just to much for the Eastsiders.
Scott
Shimabukuro, the third of four Makaweli pitchers, was the game-winning hurler.
He was preceded on the mound by Jason Nakata and Joshua Maeda. Royce Ijima
finished up the final inning on the hill.
Evan Gibson, the first of four
Kapa’a pitchers, took the loss. Owen Koishigawa and Allen and Dustin Mundon
also made pitching appearances.
