Awa named Gatorade POY

Gatorade has selected Konawaena senior Dawnyelle Awa as its Hawaii player of the year.

The 5-foot-8 point guard led the Wildcats to a second state title in a row, the third in the past four seasons. She averaged 11 points, four rebounds, four assists and four steals per game.

Awa, who will play at Washington State next season with teammate Lia Galdeira, has a 3.4 grade-point average.

Weather washes away ILH baseball playoffs

Rain is good for the ecosystem and our water supply.

Rain is bad for baseball. Carl Schroers, the Interscholastic League of Honolulu’s baseball coordinator, has revamped the schedule for varsity, junior varsity and intermediate teams. In other words, it’s a Rubik’s Cube challenge.

Schroers met with the league’s coaches on Saturday after a deluge over the past week left the schedule doused with rainouts. A new schedule was released on Monday.

“We’re still tweaking things. We’ll get it done,” he said.

The new format is now a double round-robin for the league’s nine varsity teams. The postseason, double-elimination tournament has been, well, eliminated, leaving teams with 16 regular-season games.

HBA boys making do

Hawaii Baptist’s volleyball team is not just in Division II, but unable to play D-I foes in league play this season with a change in scheduling by the ILH.

Instead, HBA scheduled powerhouse Kamehameha for an exhibition on Friday and pulled off a 26-24, 20-25, 25-19 win before a capacity crowd at Dan Liu Gym.

Michael Fisher, a 6-foot-6 junior, led the Eagles with 20 kills.

Game of infinity, almost

Konawaena found a rubber-armed relief pitcher at the right time.

Ryan Torres-Torioka went eight innings for the win as Konawaena edged Honokaa 8-7 in 12 innings.

It was the longest game of the baseball season so far.