State Baseball Tournament: Day One Thoughts

Hello From Oahu,

Congratulations to Kamehameha, and Kohala for winning in Day one of the tournament. And they both did it with good pitching.

Kohala's Blaise Kise threw a complete game, striking out nine, and getting himself out of trouble in the last few innings. In fact, he left two on base to end the sixth, and allowed a couple runs in the seventh before shutting the door.

Meanwhile, from Patssy T. Mink Central Oahu Regional Park field 1 over to Les Murakami Stadium, and Kamehameha's Blake Amaral. He had his tough moments, including a HBP and some one-run-allowed innings, but the middle to back part of the order helped him out in the sixth, including help from the Kailua defense, as an E6 and E3 helped bring in the go-ahead runs in the sixth. Amaral, however, settled down late, and struck out a couple in the final frame, and eight for the game. Talking to some of the people in the press box after the game, the word they used to describe Corey Ishigo's team: Undisciplined. And it showed defensively in the sixth.

Couple of things already needed to look at for next year. We NEED a working scoreboard at Central Oahu Regional Park. To me, it's a little embarassing that people just walking can't tell the score, and that they don't even have official scorers. In fact during the HPA broadcast we did, the official scorer was actually the guy taking stats for Maryknoll. Oh BTW, you forgot to add the run that HPA picked up in the 5th. The final score in the HPA game should read 15-1, not 15-0.

Oh, and one more thing. No one told me that there is a hospitality room for the media, so I didn't have to go downstairs at Murakami and buy a hot dog and mountain dew. I found out that they had sandwiches and drinks there.

Big thank you to my taxi driver, Nam. Got tipped pretty well Wednesday, as I was pretty much his only client from the hotel to Murakami to CORP and back to the hotel. I'm saving my receipts.

Schedule for Thursday:

11:15 am (after a special baseball edition of the Josh Pacheco Show)

Kamehameha-Hawaii vs. Maui

1:45 pm

Saint Louis vs. Waiakea

And, by the way, Friday's edition of the Josh Pacheco Show will be LIVE from the Ilima Hotel conference room. You can e-mail, call-in, text in, all the same. I just won't be in the studio. But we will have "Yes-naka" running the board and answering the calls.