The Pearl City Chargers bounced #4 seed Waiakea from the winners bracket in a 5-2 victory over the Big Island champions in the quarterfinals of the HHSAA State Division I Baseball Championship Tournament on Thursday at Les Murakami Stadium.
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Chargers celebrating Thursday's victory over Waiakea.
Pearl City Chargers starting pitcher, Tyler Tokunaga tossed seven complete innings, allowing 2 runs and 8 hits for the victory. Waiakea's, Quintin Torres-Costa gave up 5 runs and 7 hits in 6 innings of work.
The Chargers welcomed back starters Chevas Numata and Troy Barboza Scanlan who both sat out Wednesday's first round 3-1 victory over Kamehameha-Maui.
Numata got things started in the first inning with a 2-run homerun off of Waiakea starting pitcher, Torres-Costa that cleared the right field fence.
Waiakea put up one run in the second, and one run in the third inning to tie the score at 2-2.
In the third inning, Scanlan ripped an RBI double to left center that scored Tyler Tokunaga to put the Chargers up 3-2.
Tanner Tokunaga took care of business in the sixth inning to secure the Chargers lead and victory with a 2 RBI triple to left center that scored Kory Nakamura and Sheldon Milan.
The Chargers (15-3) move on to the semifinals and will face Kailua (15-1-1) on Friday at 4:00pm. Kailua defeated the #1 ranked St. Louis Crusaders (16-3) on Thursday 3-2.
Moanalua (14-1-1) and Baldwin (15-0) will meet in the second semifinal match up on Friday at 7:00pm.
* Note: Pearl City defeated Kailua 8-7 in the semifinals of the OIA Red Division Championships a couple weeks ago at the Kailua Surfriders home field.
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Tyler Tokunaga went the distance in the Chargers 5-2 victory over Waiakea on Thursday.
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Chevas Numata wasted no time getting the Chargers on the scoreboard with a first inning, 2 run homerun over the right field fence.
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Troy Barboza Scanlan pictured drilling an RBI double in the third inning.
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Tanner Tokunaga broke it open in the sixth inning with a 2 RBI triple to left center field.
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Waiakea starting pitcher Quintin Torres-Costa allowed 5 runs and 7 hits in 6 innings of work against the Chargers.
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The Tokunaga brothers, #15 Tanner and #1 Tyler congratulate each other after two great performances on Thursday that help lead the Chargers over Waiakea.
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Chargers bat boy worked hard on Thursday!
@ Les Murakami Stadium
#4 Waiakea (10-2-1) 011 000 0 – 2 8 0
Pearl City (12-5) 201 002 X – 5 7 0
W – Tyler Tokunaga
L – Quintin Torres-Costa