Had Kaiser’s baseball team scripted its season on paper beforehand, its final destination would have been University of Hawaii’s Les Murakami Stadium, scene of this week’s Division I state baseball championships.<\/p>\n
With that in mind, the Cougars can’t help but feel as if they are right on schedule, thanks to their fourth-place finish at the recent OIA DI tournament.<\/p>\n
As with the rest of the 11-team field, the Cougars are looking at a fresh slate at the state tournament. Pairings for the tournament, which will be played Wednesday through Saturday, were to be announced Sunday.<\/p>\n
A look at the state tournament prospects for Kaiser High are below.<\/p>\n
The Kaiser File<\/strong><\/p>\n Record: 9-6 overall (The Cougars went 8-4 in the OIA DI East’s regular season on their way to earning the No. 2 seed for the conference date, with 30.7 and 22.9, respectively, so expect both to figure big again for Kaiser this week.<\/p>\n Sakatani enters the state tournament still undefeated at 4-0, having earned wins against Castle, Kalani, Moanalua and Roosevelt. He’s also batting in the clean- up spot, or No. 5 spot in the Kaiser batting hierarchy.<\/p>\n Simeona is usually in the No. 2 slot in the Kaiser batting order, and he’s responded by hitting .282 to go with 11 RBI and five stolen bases. Lincoln Lima (.324) and Emmett Garcia (team-high 12 RBI) also have been among the Cougars’ offensive leaders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Had Kaiser’s baseball team scripted its season on paper beforehand, its final destination would have been University of Hawaii’s Les..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[115],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-east-oahu-sports"],"yoast_head":"\n