State Baseball Day 2: Kamehameha, Campbell, Baldwin, Mililani reach semifinals
After record-low scoring on the opening day of the Wally Yonamine Foundation/HHSAA State Baseball Championships in Division I on Tuesday, four quarterfinal games are underway today at Les Murakami Stadium.
Schedule
10 a.m.: No. 4 Campbell 2, Hilo 1
1 p.m.: Mililani 2, No. 3 Waiakea 1
4 p.m.: No. 2 Baldwin 8, Leilehua 2
7 p.m.: No. 1 Kamehameha 4, Kamehameha-Maui 1
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No. 1 Kamehameha 4, Kamehameha-Maui 1
Sophomore Greyson Osbun allowed two hits over six scoreless innings with six strikeouts to pitch the ILH champions into the semifinals against Campbell on Thursday night at 7.
Elijah Ickes finished 2-for-3 with a walk and an RBI and Jace Souza added a run-scoring single in the sixth inning to make it a 4-0 game.
Matt Zarriello added an RBI single for Kamehameha (14-6), which scored a run in each of the first three innings.
Shiloh Gililand had both hits for Kamehameha-Maui (9-7), which shut out Kailua in Tuesday’s quarterfinals to earn its first win in the state tournament since 2007. KS-Maui left the bases loaded in the fifth inning.
KS-Maui sophomore reliever Kaimi Kahalekai, who is a 6-foot-8 junior, struck out seven in three innings of relief with a fastball that touched 89 miles per hour.
No. 2 Baldwin 8, Leilehua 2
First baseman Kuhio Aloy went 3-for-3 with two stinging doubles and two RBIs and Christian Dominno drove in four runs to lead the Bears (13-2) over the Mules (10-7).
Baldwin scored twice as many runs as any other team had through the first six games of the tournament to punch its ticket into tonight’s first semifinal against Mililani at 4.
“Any win is a good win at the Les,” Baldwin coach Craig Okita said. “We gave up that run in the first inning and it’s like, ‘Oh my God,’ just with the way things were going yesterday and today. Runs were at a premium and when we answered with four in the first things kind of eased up a little bit.”
Aloy ripped a two-run double inside the bag at third and Domino added a two-run single to left to give Baldwin a 4-1 lead after the first inning.
Jaren Pascual singled in a run and Dominno followed with his second two-run single of the game in the fifth inning to push the lead to 7-2.
Baldwin starter Kade Fujioka allowed one earned run in six innings to earn the win.
The Bears won the state title the time the tournament was held on Oahu in 2018.
Mililani 2, No. 3 Waiakea 1
Junior Kayden Suma scattered nine hits in a complete game for the Trojans (12-6), who knocked off the defending state champion Warriors (12-4) to advance to the state semifinals for the first time since reaching the final in 2019.
Logan Falido and Ethan Bagasol scored Mililani’s only runs in the third inning without getting a hit. A walk, an error and two hit batters allowed one run to score and Cal Hawes lifted a sacrifice fly to center to score the other.
Suma struck out two and walked one. Devin Garza and Jesse Inouye kept the game alive with two-out singles in the bottom of the seventh inning to score one run. Garcia was the tying run on second when Suma got Joshua Ward to fly out to left to end it.
Mililani's Kayden Suma gets the fly ball to left to strand the tying run at second and Mililani beats defending champion Waiakea 2-1. pic.twitter.com/DtMFLWnu3U
— Billy Hull (@billyhull) May 4, 2023
The Trojans escaped despite collecting just three hits.
“I felt good for my team that I could push them to the next round,” Suma said. “Fastball was working inside and the changeup was working so I was just working with that.”
The Trojans will play the winner between Baldwin and Leilehua in Thursday’s first semifinal.
No. 4 Campbell 2, Hilo 1
Sabers senior right-hander Hunter Lindsey pitched the fifth complete game thrown through five games in the state tournament to lead the Sabers (14-2) over the Vikings (14-3).
Campbell catcher Cason Eliptico-Quinata singled in the go-ahead run in the bottom of the fourth inning and Lindsey made it stand with a four-hitter.
Hilo’s only run was unearned in the top of the fourth when freshman left fielder KJ Marzo singled in Jayden Soriano.
Lindsey needed only 81 pitches to get through seven innings and allowed four hits with two walks without a strikeout.
Day 2 starts off just like Day 1. Hunter Lindsey with the complete game performance and Campbell holds off Hilo, 2-1, to punch its ticket to the semifinals of the Wally Yonamine Foundation/HHSAA State Baseball Championships. pic.twitter.com/gj6tOHb8Z2
— Billy Hull (@billyhull) May 3, 2023
Dayton Lorenzo walked and scored on Lindsey’s bases-loaded walk in the first inning to get Campbell on the scoreboard first.
Campbell will play the winner of today’s final game between Kamehameha-Maui and top seed Kamehameha in the second semifinals on Thursday night.
Today’s first quarterfinal game was the fifth straight game in the tournament decided by two runs or less. Three of the last four games were decided by one run.