Kawehi Ephan, a graduate of Waimea High School, made a big bang to open the Citrus College Owls’ softball season recently. Ephan, whose big bat followed her prowess behind the plate for the Menehune, is a freshman at the Glendora,
Kawehi Ephan, a graduate of Waimea High School, made a big bang to open the Citrus College Owls’ softball season recently.
Ephan, whose big bat followed her prowess behind the plate for the Menehune, is a freshman at the Glendora, Calif. college.
During the Owls’ opening game Feb. 1, Ephan was a perfect four-for-four in the batters’ box, smacking an opening homerun as well as a closing homerun and driving in five runs while scoring three times in the Owls’ 13-5 win over Pasadena City College in California.
A release from the Citrus College states that in Hawai‘i, the word “aloha” means both “hello” and “goodbye.” That couldn’t be more fitting, considering the Citrus debut of five-foot seven-inch freshman catcher Kawehi Ephan, the daughter of Larry and Sherri Ephan of Kalaheo.
Ephan greeted the community college softball world with a homerun in her first at-bat, and said goodbye to the ball during her last at-bat.
While a catcher with the Waimea High School softball team under coach Teddy Perreira, Ephan was a Kaua‘i Interscholastic Federation all-star all four years of her high school career.
• Dennis Fujimoto, photographer and staff writer, can be reached at 245-3681 (ext. 253) or dfujimoto@thegardenisland.com.
