BIIF baseball and softball: Warriors sweep Cougars on diamond

HILO — Waiakea baseball earned win No. 1 of the season after escaping the visiting Kea‘au Cougars 6-5 on Tuesday afternoon in Hilo town. The Warriors improved to 1-1, while Kea‘au remained winless at 0-3.

The paper was unable to obtain a box score from this matchup by deadline.

Both teams’ next matchup is yet to be announced.

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Waiakea 16, Kea‘au 0

Waiakea softball scored eight runs in both the second and third inning to seal the run rule against the visiting Kea‘au Lady Cougars on Tuesday afternoon in Hilo town. It was the Lady Warriors’ first win of the season after dropping their opener to Hilo last weekend. They moved to 1-1 overall.

After both teams went scoreless in the first inning, Waiakea got going in the bottom of the second — when third baseman E-nea Luther logged an RBI single. Following a Kea‘au error that scored two more runs, first baseman Tehani Chinen then scored two more runs with an RBI single. The onslaught of an inning ended when catcher Kaelyn Sewake smacked a three-run RBI double.

In the following inning, the Lady Warriors continued to pile it on. Shortstop Lexi Santiago scored one run off a single, Chinen notched an RBI double, Sewake earned another RBI double scoring three, Luther was walked to score another and left fielder Tinei Soi hit a two-run RBI single.

Waiakea had nine hits to the Lady Cougars’ zero. Kea‘au also committed four errors, while the Lady Warriors maintained perfection with none.

Kaitlyn Miura pitched in the circle for the winners — going 3.0 innings while allowing no hits, no runs, one walk and eight strikeouts. She was awarded as the matchuyp’s winning pitcher.

Tiani Kaupu earned the start for the Lady Cougars, pitching 2.0 innings while allowing three hits, five walks, eight runs and striking out one.

Both teams’ next matchup is to be determined.