Game 1: Kaua‘i 8, Kapa‘a 2 – Jordan Buster allowed no runs off of one hit in three and two-thirds innings and struck out six in Kaua‘i High School’s 8-2 Game 1 win over Kapa‘a High School yesterday at Ron
Game 1: Kaua‘i 8, Kapa‘a 2 – Jordan Buster allowed no runs off of one hit in three and two-thirds innings and struck out six in Kaua‘i High School’s 8-2 Game 1 win over Kapa‘a High School yesterday at Ron Martin Field
Right-hander Buster received the win as the defending Kaua‘i Interscholastic Federation champions got off to a good Round 2 to start.
The Raiders were up four runs by the fourth inning before Kapa‘a was able to get on the boards.
Left fielder Aaron Soong finished 2-for-3 with an RBI and two runs scored, and Andrew Renaud was 1-for-2 with two RBI. Schyler Arakaki was 2-for-3 with a run scored, Lannan Rice-Kashima was 2-for-2 with two RBI and Trent Allianic was 1-for-1 with three runs scored.
Kapa‘a’s catcher Wes Abalos was 1-for-3 with an RBI and a run scored.
Kapa‘a head coach Tommy Cox was ejected from the game midway through the morning after a dispute over the umpire’s call and was forced to watch the rest of the game and the second one from the school’s parking lot.
Game 2: Kaua‘i 9, Kapa‘a 4
Kaua‘i’s Allianic was on his way to pitching a no hitter yesterday in the afternoon game before he was relieved by Renaud in the fifth inning. The only runner who was able to get on base off of Allianic was left fielder Aaron Nagao.
Rice-Kashima had a sacrifice RBI to score Jon Gebauer to put the Raiders up 3-0 in the fourth inning. Then Taran Tani hit down the right side base line for a single. Two hitters later, Kalen Wakumoto hit an RBI double as the Raiders advanced the score to 5-0.
Kapa‘a’s Braden Kamibayashi got on base on an error then scored off a hit from Travis Shigeta.
Kapa‘a was plagued by errors at the top of the seventh, committing four and allowing Kaua‘i to score three more runs off of two hits.
But Kapa‘a was close to making a comeback at the bottom of the inning with a hit from B.J. Aiwohi and another from Kamibayashi.
Abalos was walked to load the bases, but a pop fly from Shigeta was caught to end the game.
The next KIF game is set for 2:45 p.m. Wednesday when Kaua‘i hosts Waimea High School at Vidinha Stadium.
