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Posted at 3:09 p.m., Wednesday, July 26, 2006

Komine called up to start for Athletics

By Stacy Kaneshiro
Advertiser Staff Writer

Kalani High graduate Shane Komine is scheduled to make his major league debut with the Oakland Athletics when he starts against the Toronto Blue Jays Sunday at Oakland, Calif.

"I'm excited, nervous, anxious," Komine said in a telephone interview Wednesday from Albuquerque, N.M., where his team, the Sacramento River Cats, are playing. "This is what you dream about. I'm finally getting a shot."

He was told of the news by his manager Tony DeFrancesco earlier Wednesday. Komine, a 1998 graduate of Kalani, is 9-7 with a 3.89 earned run average for the River Cats, the Triple A affiliate of the Athletics.