Kailua’s Jalen Ah Yat ended an extra-inning battle with Pearl City on Thursday after hitting the game winning RBI that drove in Cody Riturban to lift the Surfriders to a 3-2 victory over the Chargers in the quarterfinals of the Oahu Interscholastic Association playoffs at Kailua High School.
Ah Yat came through at the plate in the bottom of 10th inning driving in Riturban from third base with the bases loaded and no outs. Ah Yat ripped a pitch off of Pearl City relief pitcher Kulia Neal who had just entered the game in relief of Dillin Hasegawa with the bases full of Surfriders.
Joey Cantillo hit a two RBI single in the bottom of the seventh inning that erased a Pearl City 2-0 lead and sent the game off to extra innings tied at 2-2.
Pearl City got on the scoreboard with single runs in the fifth and sixth innings. Carter Hirano and Cade Halemanu scored both runs for the Chargers. The Chargers had a golden opportunity to score in the top of the 10th inning but left Jensen Kaya stranded on third base after Alihikaua Rodrigues went down on strikes.
Joey Cantillo got the start for the Surfriders pitching 7 2/3 innings while allowing two runs, four hits with 10 strikeouts and three walks. Ryan Inouye earned the win in 2 1/3 innings of relief allowing no runs, two hits and one strikeout.
Jansen Shigeta got the start for Pearl City pitching four innings while allowing no runs and four hits. Marcus Boyles pitched 1 2/3 innings allowing no runs and one hit in relief. Dillin Hasegawa took the loss pitching 3 1/3 innings allowing three runs, four hits, with one strikeout and four walks. Kulia Neal relieved Hasegawa in the bottom of the 10th inning and gave up the game winning hit with the winning run charged to Hasegawa..
Kailua advanced to semifinals and will face Mililani on Friday at Les Murakami Stadium with first pitch scheduled for 4:00pm. Campbell will take on Kalani in the night cap semifinal for 7:00pm. Both semifinal games will be televised live on OC 16.
Pearl City will take on Moanalua on Friday in the consolation semifinals at Moanalua with first pitch scheduled for 3:00pm.
GO CHARGERS!
@ Kailua 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 R H E
Pearl City (6-8) 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 2 6 1
Kailua (11-2) 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 3 10 1
Leading Hitters:
Pearl City – Christian Onomura 1-5, 2B; Sam Prentice 1-4, RBI; Carter Hirano 2-4, run;Jensen Kaya 1-4; Kaleb Nishijo 1-4
Kailua – Matthew Kaleiophi 1-4, run; Cody Riturban 2-4, 2B, run; Joey Cantillo 1-4, 2 RBI; Dylan Kurahashi Choy-Foo 1-4; Jalen Ah Yat 3-4, RBI; Kalua Neves 1-4; Bryson Ballesteros 1-3
Thursday (4/13) Quarterfinal Results:
Campbell 4
Kaiser 2
Kalani 6
Kapolei 5
Mililani 3
Moanalua 2
Kailua 3
Pearl City 2
Friday (4/14) Semifinals
@ Les Murakami Stadium
Live Broadcast on OC16
Mililani vs. Kailua – 4:00pm
Campbell vs. Kalani – 7:00pm
Photo by Barry Villamil | [email protected]
Kailua's Jalen Ah Yat is pictured hitting the game winning RBI in the
bottom of the 10th inning that drove in Cody Riturban from third base
breaking a 2-2 and advancing the Surfriders into the OIA DI playoff
semifinals. Ah Yat had a great day at the plate hitting 3-4 with a RBI.
Photo by Barry Villamil | [email protected]
Kailua's Ryan Inouye earned the win for the Seariders in 2 1/3
innings of relief allowing no runs, two hits and one strikeout.
Photo by Barry Villamil | [email protected]
Sam Prentice put the Chargers up 2-0 with a RBI single
that scored Cade Halemanu in the top of the sixth inning.
Photo by Barry Villamil | [email protected]
Cade Halemanu slides in ahead of the throw at the plate scoring the
Chargers second run of the ball game on a RBI single by Sam Prentice.
Photo by Barry Villamil | [email protected]
Kailua's Joey Cantillo hit a two RBI single in the bottom of the seventh
inning that tied the game at 2-2 scoring Dakota Kadooka from third and
Matthew Kaleiohi from second that also sent the two teams into extra innings.