ILH chops baseball schedule in half

Three Kona low storms later, an entire leg of regular-season play is down the drain for ILH baseball. The latest storm kept fields across Oahu soggy and unplayable enough to trigger the cancellation of all games in the second set of double-round robin play in the Interscholastic League of Honolulu. That means baseball teams will be capped at seven games instead of trying to squeeze in the normal 14, a single round-robin instead of the usual double round-robin regular season.

It is a regrettable situation for each ILH team to see seven games sliced out of the season, but after three weeks of nearly nonstop rain and flooding damage, the ILH and leagues across the state are patching together workable schedules and praying for sunshine in the playoffs. An alternate plan to squeeze in ILH regular-season makeup games at Les Murakami Stadium was offered to the ILH by UH-Manoa, according to HHSAA executive director Chris Chun. Games could have been played during the school days at 9 a.

m. , noon and 3 p. m.

However, the opportunity arrived after the ILH had moved ahead with the plan to shelve the remaining makeup games, according to a school administrator. Kamehameha and ‘Iolani already agreed to play an exhibition game at UH on Wednesday, a senior-night event for the Raiders. For No.