Can anyone take the heat out of the Kalaheo fire? Does the AJA have an answer for the 4-0 ace Kaina McCallum? Not yet. Kalaheo remains undefeated in the AJA baseball standings with a 16-1 drubbing over Lihue in Sunday’s
Can anyone take the heat out of the Kalaheo fire?
Does the AJA have an answer for the 4-0 ace Kaina McCallum?
Not yet.
Kalaheo remains undefeated in the AJA baseball standings with a 16-1 drubbing over Lihue in Sunday’s conclusion to the first round of play at Hanapepe Baseball Stadium.
Ahren Kaneshiro doubled to centerfield and then scored on Dan Tanimoto’s clutch basehit to notch Lihue’s only run of the game. McCallum scattered four more hits, walked only one and struck out six in five innings to pick up the win.
Reliever Mike Yaris was no green light for Lihue – he picked up the save by pitching two scoreless innings with three K’s, a walk and only one hit.
As for the Kalaheo bats? Well, look at the score.
The west-side team slammed home four first inning runs, with Scott Serizawa scoring on Troy Kaneshiro’s basehit, a high-flying, tower of a home-run from clean-up hitter Kainoa Santos which scored three more runs before the second.
McCallum can do much more than throw the ball.
His second inning clobber sent one over the fence for Kalaheo’s second home-run of the game. Troy Kaneshiro and Serizawa waltzed home on the blast, and Kalaheo led 7-0 after two.
The run continued in the third.
Troy Kaneshiro slammed a bases loaded double to center field to drive in Zoomie Bukoski, Gerren Itamura and Serizawa.
Casey Oketani drove in Kaneshiro, and he and McCallumscored on Lanca Higashi’s double.
Kaneshiro’s fielder’s coice scored Kyle Higashi in the fourth, Oketani would single to score Kainoa Santos and Gerren Itamura knocked in Oktani in the fifth to give Kalaheo the 16-1 win.
In the second game of Sunday’s match-ups, Makaweli and Kapa’a were locked up at 15 until the end to hand each team a tie in the standings.
