Posted at 9:45 p.m., Friday, February 2, 2007
Kauai, Sacred Hearts to meet for D-II softball title
By Kyle Sakamoto
Advertiser Staff Writer
Kauai, the tournament's No. 2 seed, will play top-seeded Sacred Hearts for the title tonight at 6. Sacred Hearts beat Kamehameha-Hawai'i, 5-0, yesterday at Central O'ahu Regional Park.
Kauai, the Kauai Interscholastic Federation champion, will attempt to become the second team from the Garden Isle to win a state softball title (Waimea in 1990).
Maryknoll (7-11), the Interscholastic League of Honolulu runner-up, took a 4-0 lead by scoring an unearned run in the first inning and three more in the fourth.
Kauai's bats came alive in the five-run fifth when the Red Raiders sent eight batters to the plate and collected four hits against Ariel Silva.
Jori-Ann Jasper led off with a single to center and was sacrificed to second by Alyssa Carvalho.
Pinch-hitter Nicole Larue plated the Red Raiders' first run with an opposite-field triple to right.
Wailana Borrero, the coach's daughter, doubled in two runs, and scored the tying run on a throwing error by the catcher.
Clean-up hitter Samantha Koga squeezed in Jessica Iwata for the go-ahead run.
The Red Raiders (9-6) added a run in the seventh on a run-scoring single by Iwata.
Wailana Borrero pitched a six-hitter with four walks and one strikeout.
She said she used a fastball, curve, change-up, screwball and drop to keep the Spartans (7-11) off-balance.
Sacred Hearts 5, Kamehameha-Hawaii 0: Joslyn Eugenio pitched a three-hitter and batted 3 for 4 with an RBI for the top-seeded Lancers at Central Oahu Regional Park.
Quarterfinals
Kamehameha-Hawaii 7, Molokai 1: Courtney Poai pitched a complete game, and Angel Mahaulu homered and drove in two runs for the Warriors at Central Oahu Regional Park.
Kauai 14, Pahoa 7: Wailana Borrero pitched a complete game and Krystal Ijima went 2 for 5 for the Red Raiders at Central Oahu Regional Park.
Maryknoll 13, Kahuku 3: Ariel Silva pitched a three-hitter, and Heather Uekawa, Silva, Shelcie Rapozo-Delacruz and Brooke Perriton drove in two runs apiece for the Spartans at Central Oahu Regional Park.
Consolation semifinals
Molokai 8, Lanai 4: Danna-Lynn Hooper-Juario, Shardae Maliu-Calairo and Deisha Pico each drove in two runs for the Farmers at Central Oahu Regional Park.
Pahoa 5, Kahuku 0: Noel Filoteo pitched a four-hitter and Faalupega Enos batted 2 for 3 with two doubles for the Daggers at Central Oahu Regional Park.
Consolation Final
KOHALA 5, FARRINGTON 1: Tiana Lo had a triple and a double, and drove in two runs to lead the Cowgirls of the BIIF over the Governors of the OIA.
Fifth place
MOLOKAI 9, PAHOA 8: Shardae Maliu-Calairo and Deisha Pico each hit homers and drove in two runs apiece, and the Farmers of the MIL rallied with two runs in the bottom of sixth and last inning to beat the Daggers of the BIIF.