KEAAU – If three-time defending league Division II champion Kamehameha is looking for a new challenge, then they always have this.
The Warriors are the last unbeaten Big Island Interscholastic Federation softball team after Thursday, and a perfect season isn’t something Kamehameha has accomplished yet in its recent run.
Mykala Tokunaga pitched a five-hitter with six strikeouts and the Warriors got to Waiakea’s Alyssa Hara in the late innings to win going away on their their home field.
Hara allowed just one hit during the first three innings, but Kamehameha (4-0) connected for three in the fourth to break a 1-1 tie. Kekai Wong Yuen led off with a single to left and scored on Tokunaga’s hit, and the junior right-hander eventually came in on Makena Wagner’s sacrifice fly.
Wong Yuen finished 2 for 3 with an RBI and two runs scored, and the junior catcher also started off the Warriors six-run sixth inning with a single. Kamehameha sent 10 batters to the plate. Jaysha Alonzo-Estrada hit a two-run double and Kiarra Lincoln and Jessica Cameros also drove in runs with doubles.
Division I Waiakea (1-2) left seven runners on base in the first five innings. Taylor Nishimura tripled to lead off the third for Waiakea and scored on an error.
The only earned run Tokunaga allowed came on Taylor Ogawa’s run-scoring single in the seventh.
Coming off a 14-9 victory against Kealakehe, Kamehameha already has beaten two Division I teams, and it also has defeated 2014 Division II runner-up Konawaena. Kamehameha is the only team with a winning record in D-II.
At the plate, Tokunaga was 2 for 3 with two runs scored and two RBIs and Wagner also had two hits.
Hara went the distance, walking one, and was 2 for 3 at the plate.
Waiakea 001 000 1 – 2 5 2
Kamehameha 010 306 x – 9 11 2
Kealakehe 11, Konawaena 7: Breianna McLeod homered, Kiara Cantiberos pitched a complete game despite giving up 15 hits and the host Waveriders took advantage of five errors to tie for the top spot in Division I.
Kealakahe (4-1) began to pull away during a five-run second inning. Tavian Taketa singled in a run, Leisha Nakagawa hit an two-run double and McLeod capped the rally with a two-run home run to right field.
Kiersen Kawehi Kahele was for 4 for 4 for the Wildcats (2-3), who scored five runs in the seventh, and Shyla Victor was 3 for 4 with an RBI triple and and run-scoring double.
In six innings of work in the circle, Victor yielded 11 runs – six earned – with a walk and three strikeouts.
Cantiberos walked two and struck out three.
Lihue Wessel had two doubles for Konawaena.
Konawaena 101 000 5 – 7 15 5
Kealakehe 251 201 x – 11 12 0
