Pearl City pitcher Daven Hermosura led Pearl City to the 8 to 2 win over Waipahu. Hermosura threw a 9 inning complete game, holding hard hitting Waipahu to 2 runs on 4 hits, while striking out 9 in Pearl City’s 8 to 2 win. Hermosura’s iron man performance came after pitching 3 innings on Wednesday (3/12) in Pearl City’s 12 to 11 win over Ewa. Pearl City broke open the game in the 2nd inning after 2 outs and no one on base, scoring 4 runs on 5 straight hits.
The game featured several ESPN Web gems such as PC shortstop Chad Quillopo’s diving stop and throw out from his knees to rob Waipahu’s Mark Veneri of a base hit to centerfield, PC 2nd baseman Adam Tamashiro’s bare handed catch off a deflected groundball to throw out a streaking Reese Kato, Tamashiro’s glove toss out to rob Reese Kato of a bunt hit, & Waipahu shortstop Landon Nakata’s back handed catch to start a 6-4-3 double play off a screaming line drive from the bat of Justin Pate. Pearl City won its 3rd game in 3 days in the Oahu AJA Baseball Playoff & Championship Tournament.
Pearl City advances to the Championship game on Monday (3/17) 7pm @Hans L’Orange to play the Winner of the 1pm game on Sunday (3/16) @Hans L’Orange.
Waipahu drops into the Loser bracket to play the winner of the 10am McCully vs Waialae game @1pm @Hans L’Orange.
| DATE: | 3/14/2014 | SITE: CORP | ||||||||||||||
| LINESCORE | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | R | H | E | ||
| PEARL CITY | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 9 | 2 | ||||
| WAIPAHU | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 5 | ||||
| BATTERIES: | PEARL CITY | DAVEN HERMOSURA & KIP MASUDA | ||||||||||||||
| WAIPAHU | CRUZ HATANAKA, SEAN MILAN (7) & ZACK KOMETANI | |||||||||||||||
| WINNING PITCHER | HERMOSURA | LOSING PITCHER | HATANAKA | |||||||||||||
| SAVE | ||||||||||||||||
| HITTERS | WAIALAE | WAIPAHU | ||||||||||||||
| CHAD QUILLOPO 2-4, 2 RUN, RBI | ||||||||||||||||
| CHAD TAKABUKI 2-4, RUN | ||||||||||||||||
| ADAM TAMASHIRO 2-4, RUN | ||||||||||||||||
| NOTES: | DAVEN HERMOSURA PITCHED 9 INNING COMPLETE GAME WITH 8 STRIKEOUTS | |||||||||||||||
| TO HOLD HARD HITTING WAIPAHU TO 2 RUNS ON 4 HITS AFTER PITCHING | ||||||||||||||||
| 3 INNINGS IN PEARL CITY’S WIN ON WEDNESDAY OVER EWA. | ||||||||||||||||
| PEARL CITY WON ITS 3RD GAME IN 3 DAYS IN THE CHAMPIONSHIP TOURNAMENT. | ||||||||||||||||