DeMello leaving KITV

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ST: Gimme the tickets! …as long as they aren’t parking tickets. 🙂

Good morning Tsaikos…

If I yell ‘gimme the tickets’ from TX, would you give them to A-joe and A-sports? 🙂

More coffee…

First ‘temper flare’ today? OL v. DL or LB v. RB?

later…

top 10!

cheepono out. nite all.

i’ll be the first to admit i am no volleyball guru, but i catch a game here and there, and was wondering…………does Walker have the most service errors on the team? the guy is a stud, don’t get me wrong, but it’s what i call the babe ruth syndrome…….either it’s a home run or bust……….noticed at the LBSU game, and then again last night in the 1st match at the most critical juncture…whew…..

just a thought……….ok, 2 hours 18 minutes til the D line is on the field, 1 hour 33 minutes before we pick up the beast and get him some ‘vittles’ and drop off at UH…………anyone anxious out there? haha….. GO WARRIORS 🙂

testing…….

that being said…..have a safe and happy day folks….especially those young studs out there in football land!!

early morning to all, like bulla packing up and heading out to the rumble and tumble at manoa. whoootahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. and big guy no run me ova getting to UH bwhaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

sj and myki hot scones would be good. getting some kope and meet you fellas by the pond under the trees next to the table.

congrats to vball warriors for the victory last night. one more and they make it in the tourny and possible coy for mistah wade. also to the bballers for their win against the zags.

au’wryte time to traverse the rain, puddles and slippery road to green manoa valley (so says the song) see ya

Thanks to BleedGreen808 for the report yesterday on the starters. I took the liberty of making his corrections as well.

April 2nd, 2010 at 2:18 pm

RDE——-Falemalu
RDT——-Masch
LDE——- Satele
LDT——-Meatoga
LOLB—–Paredes
MLB——-Huen
ROLB—-A. Brown
LDB——L. Davis
RDB—–Bryant
S #1—–Smith
S #2—–Silva

Ahh, the spring air smell. Football, baseball, volleyball, softball, golf. Did I mention football?

Kazz,
just wait for the coqui frogs to take control over there . You’ll be angry every night.

Coach Bulla ~ Must be prowling the sidelines with asst.Tsaiko Coach D-1 & KK. Thanks for the article on the returning home boys.

The hunger these young Warriors have will pay big dividends for this season of battle. Along with them, Ryan is back on the Aina…nuff sed!

D has been out there for nearly 30 minutes.

Hope they hit it off today!

Good Morning and Happy Final Four

Thank god for spring ball, was going crazy Farming all day!

Good Morning Gangeez! 🙂 🙂 🙂

Whole lotta hittin’ goin’ on! No reports from the Tsaiko network?

aloha!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Gk-iKHRZPI

Wow, is it a usual slooooooow Saturday or everyone waiting for ST’ report from practice?

San Diego played the UHVB tough last night – tho Midori says UH seemed quite out of sync and reason for close scores.

Great job by all the winter sports “academic” honorees – tough to just get 3.0 without sports!!

Good morning Tsai-kos!

Great games last night by both teams, but yes, they vb team seemed out-of-synch at times, esp in the first game. I kept wondering where the defense went.

Had a great time at the game, but the girls were asked to stop their shrieking cheering by the people sitting in front of us. I guess they were damaging their eardrums. 😈 The girls were, to say the least, disappointed. Guess we need to find different seats tonight.

Had the pleasure of sitting next to the TSupreme Commander for parts of 2 games. He went to sit in the VIP section, but came back to enjoy the antics of the psycho Tsaikos.

Best wishes to chawan as he leaves for the East Coast for a month!

Rasu Begasu ~ WARNING!…put the finishing touches on your root cellar down on the farm. Diana and her Hanakeawe ohana will be invading your peaceful village in June.

NSF – they weren’t old… they looked like they were in their late 20’s, early 30’s

Beautiful morning at Ching field to watch the Warriors. Its a bit to early to say much about individual players, but there is great emotion on the field. I would say the defense is ahead of the offense at this point which is the same as last year. The defense is definitely more together as a group and emotionally fired up. The practice is much more organized with little wasted time. On the 11 on 11″s I would say the QB’s looked about equal. No one really stood out at QB at this point. Defense pretty much dominated the 11’s. I did notice that the Beast was in the offensive backfield on every play he was in. He is not going to have to many offensive linemen as friends.

Great turnout of Tsaikos

Bulla
Lyn
Pam
Ralph
Koakane
myki
sj-macro
Kazz
Jason
curveball
Pomai
Grandma Pestana

Sorry if I forgot anyone else….

Slugger was there at practice as well. And Pride joined us at Big City Diner for breakfast. It’s a real privilege to just hear him talk about his stories as a UH player, and to pick his brain.

curveball and d1shima pretty much summed up the practice today. Defense is definitely ahead of the offense, but it’s still early, I expect that the offense will improve.

Dunnachie has a pal in Tim Grasso.

Great reports from the Tsaiko Sports Network. Sounds like da Beast has found a ‘grazing’ spot in the offensive backfield. Coaches Beware!

Who’s got an iPad?

Rob & Joe on KHONo. Who wouldn’t want to see Joe Moore put out to pasture? Move Kainoa to anchor…can always wish upon that star.

Wahine up 3-0 now

Wahine 7
NMSU 2

Jenna “J-Rod” Rodriguez and Katie Grimes lighting up the Wahine offense. Both with two run homers.

Yay for the ticket winners!!!

Cheer for the rest of us — no need scream. I think that part is already covered.

Good to hear the Beast is feeling right at home!

‘Atta-boy!!!

Just have to remember our guys are not the enemy.

Oh damn! I didn’t bring a stopwatch to practice!!!

Ignore anything I post about football today. 😛

Ok. I can understand how WE have 9 runs.

But to allow 5?

C’mon Steph!!! Close it out!!!!

The Butler did it. 🙂

Did you see that Punahou grad stroking the 3’s at half time? Not too shabby!

Mahalo to all for the practice updates! Every practice should start with “We open up against USC.” Talk about motivation.

It’s interesting how my cellphone reception isn’t great as I’m hiking right now, but I can still browse online pretty well.

The weather up here in the Koolau range is sketchy but clearing up a little. Still think we shouldn’t be out here.

Great seeing all the Tsaikos at Ching field this morning, although wet, no rain for the 2+ hours there, God’s blessings….. Rumor had it that DPK was holding down the fort at the Tsaiko tree at the practice field, but i didn’t want to miss a minute.

The team is coming together, IMHO, each unit will have to gel as a group and then collectively as a whole. Rotation at DT is 3 deep, Coach Tony is trying to create a paradigm shift where the DT’s are in attack mode, thus constant pressure on the QB at all times. DE’s looked good, on plays to the outside they were getting pinched, but that can be remedied very easily with better ‘play recognition’ when they’re on the field.

Mahalo for the kind words on ‘the beast’, he has to adjust and funnel his energies since he will be sitting out this season, and there’s nothing anyone can do about it…but he tries to make the most out of his situation. He played almost every offensive position this week on the ‘scout’ team against the D, so he’s getting a good appreciation of everyone. When he does get his reps on the D line, it’s either do or do not, there is no try. He is in good shape, and tells me that Coach Tommy is always making me do extra things………..haha, the lucky one ryan is, haha.

Warriors have some work ahead of them, but we have to start somewhere…i overheard someone say that ‘you play how you practice….’, so at least we can see more hustle on the team at Aloha Stadium maybe?

IMUA WARRIORS…… 🙂

This is getting insane and dumb.

KNOCK IT OFF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(im gonna walk closer to the cliff just in case)

Spring Practice #3 Report

QB depth chart according to today’s 11 on 11s scrimmage.
#1 Moniz
#2 Austin
#3 Shutter
#4 Raush/Graves
#5 Nielsen (did not participate during 11 on 11)

Other depth chart of interest
Makainai–2nd LT
Bright–2nd LWR
Stutzmann–2nd RWR
Kaniela–2nd RDT

7 on 7s
Offense was finding holes on defense
Stutzmann had a couple of TDs

Highlights of the day
Raush threw a pass to #35 on a deep route to end the scrimmage (teammates yelling “and he’s a walk-on”)
Spencer smith INT
Green ran a TD up the middle
Dimude ran a couple of TDs to the right
Falemalu and Correa had a sack each

FINAL

Winning pitcher: Stephanie Ricketts

Glad they won and I felt it was gonna be a shootout of sorts, but NOT a come back from behind to almost win type scenario for NMSU.

In retrospect, it MIGHT have served our ladies a better purpose to lose this game in that fashion to act as a nasty reminder of what weaknesses they still have after a pretty decent defensive outing against SJSU last week where the errors were drastically reduced.

I’d assume Parnaby is up next in about 20 minutes for the second game of this doubleheader.

Still got 2 tickets available for tonight’s BaseBow game.

First to post here claims….

Good to hear the “Beast” making himself at home behind the line of scrimmage. I think we saw some of that last time at Aloha Stadium.
That being said and knowing it is early in the preseason camp, I hope the Oline don’t make it a habit of letting people into the backfield!.

Like the wiseman from up Makakilo side said…”da Oline betta be ready!”
Prophecies from the hill top……..

OK Kazz, all the postings while “hiking the Ko’olaus.” You’re on the Aiea Loop Trail, I’ll bet. 🙂

Yea baby.
3 run homer by Taualii.
4- 0 UH top of the 2nd

Hit em hard Wahine

Forgot to add this..Enos hit 2 field goals in live 11’s..one was long 30’s the other 45…..

Katie Grimes continuing her WAC season streak as she homered that 4th run.

I more amazed my battery didn’t die.

This should have all been a VZW/Blackberry commercial! 😆

100

That link to NMSU web stats is not as friendly as UH webstats.
Too bad that the AM station in Las Cruses audio broadcasting “On the Air” does not webcast.

theme to this post. Hawaii is light years ahead of New mexico. st.

Mav,

You’d be better off with HTC’s Droid.

And yes I am tired.

While we may be “light years” ahead of NMSU in a lot of ways, that doesn’t say much. 🙁

Kazz,

Good for you! I wish I’d explored the mountain trails more. I did the trail to Kalalau Valley on Kauai when I was 18. That was nuts. Although, the topless backpackers on the trail were refreshing. 😉

Wow. It’s REALLY coming down in Palisades right now.

Got out just in time!

Thanks Kazz!!

howdy 99
Topless backpackers?

I’m on the wrong island

HiFlyer,

I talked to Stretch yesterday and I cannot make it. Just completed a hike about 30 minutes ago. It’s a friend’s early birthday before she leaves to New York for her job for about 3 months.

She’s not a volleyball fan. Not even a MEN’S VOLLEYBALL fan.

Mav,

The scenery got even better when we got to the valley. Yeah, and did I mention I was 18? Marty Feldman eyes.

99club,

Na Pali coast in the 70’s was very ‘liberating.’

slugger – they like sitting by the, umm, conversationalists (Stretch & A-joe).

btw, no cheerleaders last night. anybody know why?

Wahine 8
NMSU 3

Bottom of 6th

99 –
‘dem Marty Feldman eyes ain’t gonna get you any hot dates.
Still remember his show.
An englishman ahead of his time, making it big in the land of America.

Glad you’re safe and sound Kazz, we need you!

How difficult is it to have your AM broadcast webcasted?

I realize your on the border, but come on Las Cruces

13 – 3 now
That stats program needs another .25 ( quarter) to keep it flowing. Too many interuptions.

now 14 – 3
Wahine Still going like the eveready batteries

No wait. Yeah, correction. Enough already. 😆

I expected a shoot out to open the series and it happened. Well, not really as NMSU almost came from behind to win game one.

I expected Kaia Parnaby to have a better outting considering the tough game she had against SJSU although we won that one 7-3.

***BEST AND MOST ENCOURAGING MOVE*** = Amanda Taualii to the bottom of the order. Yeah it sounds bad, but the result was STELLAR. A three run homer and a double and batting 5 for 5 on the night in the second game after struggling in game 1. Let’s see if this continues for her. Kudos to Coach Coolen for pulling the trigger on that one.

Looking for great news on Easter morning!!!

Nytal!

Thanks for the updates on the starters. I am a bit surprised that Tuipulotu is not in the starting rotation. Did he show up for Spring Ball out of shape or something? He handled USC offensive linemen for two years at Arizona and USC is our first game. I am sure that Kamalu Umu will also push the starters on the end positions.

Ahhh. Maybe it is Addahknowjoe. The cameraman just gave a close-up shot of him… 😆

96782 REPRESENT!!!!!!!!!!!

DEY YOU GO ERNIE!!!!!!!!

Game 2 review

LAS CRUCES, N.M.—The University of Hawai‘i softball team (27-11, 5-0 WAC) launched a total of eight home runs in tonight’s two Western Athletic Conference games and held off hard-hitting New Mexico State (17-15, WAC 0-5) to sweep the series’ opening doubleheader, 9-8 and 14-3. UH’s Stephanie Ricketts and Kaia Parnaby both earned complete game wins, while Katie Grimes led the home run barrage with three homers tonight at the NMSU Softball Complex.

GAME 2
Hawai‘i 14, New Mexico State 3

The Rainbow Wahine captured the second half of tonight’s doubleheader with a 14-3 win over the Aggies. The ‘Bows hit four home runs for the second straight game and for the seventh time this season. Amanda Tauali‘i and Yoshikawa both hit one a piece, while Grimes hit a career-high, two in the game. UH also tallied a team season-high 19 hits in the game.

Hawai‘i’s starter, Parnaby (14-5, WAC 2-0) tossed a complete game, scattering eight hits and giving up three runs. It was her 14th complete game of the season. Parnaby walked one and fanned 11 Aggies—one short of her career-high.

The ‘Bows got off to a fast start, posting four runs in the top of the second. Aguirre led the inning off with a single to right-centerfield. Yoshikawa then executed a sacrifice bunt to push Aguirre to second base. Pu‘u-Warren was then hit by a pitch and Amanda Tauali‘i followed with a three-run blast over the centerfield fence. Grimes then hit her second home run of the day to push UH’s lead to 4-0.

Hawa‘i added a run in the top of the third on Tauali‘i’s fourth RBI of the game with single to short that allowed Aguirre to score from third. UH led 5-0 going into the bottom of the third inning.

NMSU answered right back, scoring a run on an RBI single by K Jones that drove in Teresa Conrad, cutting UH’s lead to 5-1.

The ‘Bows got the run back in the top of the fourth, to go up, 6-1. Jessica Iwata started the inning and the rally with a single to left. After a pop-up to short, Jenna Rodriguez got a single through the leftside of the infield to put runners at first and second. Another pop up to short gave UH two outs, but Traci Yoshikawa came through with a single to left to score Iwata from second.

The Aggies’ responded by scoring two runs of their own on a pair of solo home runs by Nohara and Conrad in the bottom of the fourth.

Hawai‘i countered by bringing nine batters to the plate and scoring two runs in the fifth. Majam crossed the plate on an RBI single by Rodriguez and later, Iwata scored on a wild pitch to push UH’s lead to 8-3.

Tauali‘i started another UH rally in the top of the sixth with an opposite-field double to left. After an NMSU pitching change, Grimes reached first on an error on the second baseman that allowed Tauali‘i to advance to third. A pop-up to short gave the ‘Bows two outs, but the inning continued on another error on a ground ball to the third baseman that scored Tauali‘i. Later, with the bases loaded, Rodriguez drew a walk that forced Majam home, increasing UH’s lead to 10-3.

The ‘Bows then blasted two more home runs in the top of the seventh. Yoshikawa led the inning off with a homer over the left-centerfield fence. Two batters later, Tauali‘i laced a double to the right-centerfield gap and then Grimes hit her second home run of the game and third of the day to centerfield. It was Grimes’ seventh round-tripper of the season. After a ground out to short, the ‘Bows continued their scoring with a two out rally. Iwata doubled to left-center and advanced to third on a Gonzalez single. With runners at the corners, Rodriguez ripped a double down the leftfield line to score Iwata and push UH’s lead to 14-3.

New Mexico State went through five pitchers in the game. Torrey Schroeder (6-5) took the loss, giving up five runs on five hits with two walks and a strike out. A. Newman also threw two innings, giving up one run on five hits with a strike out. S. Byrne got an out for the Aggies, giving up two runs on one hit with a walk. Williard gave up two runs on two hits in 1.1 innings, and Schueler closed the game, giving up four runs on six hits.

Tauali‘i, who dropped in the line-up in today’s second game, led the ‘Bows at the plate, going 5-for-5 with a home run, two doubles, four RBI, and three runs scored. The five hits was a career high for Tauali‘i. Yoshikawa was 3-for-4 with a home run and two RBI, Rodriguez was 3-for-5 with a double and tied a career-high with three RBI, and Iwata went 3-for-6 with a double and three runs scored.

Hawai‘i and New Mexico State conclude their three-game series tomorrow with a single game starting at 2:00 p.m. (MST).

wat?everybody sleeping? Happy Easter to all!!!

Howzit!

Yup, no school does Senior Night like UH.

Question of the night – who gave the cheerleaders the weekend off? Games are just not the same without them. Several of them were in the stands to cheer on one of their own during the plaque ceremony.

Some of the older (quiet) fans are not appreciative of A-joe and Stretch’s “encouragement” of the opponents. 👿

People were remarking on Stretch’s eye chart up where I was sitting. They thought it was funny, especially when Stretch pointed to the 4th line that spells, “O U T …”

SteveM,

The young girl screaming on the broadcast is not one of our young’uns. They were behaving tonight; they brought signs. Even Rawson’s brother was silenced tonight. Before the game, he had a sign that said, “I can’t YELL tonight. Yell for me.” (or words to that effect) Maybe it was because his parents were there? Or did someone complain? (UCSD?)

Slugger – I wonder which NFA told Rawson’s brother he couldn’t yell.

Apparently, the section which the Tsaiko encouragers inhabit was populated by quiet season ticket holders until this year, when we showed up!

Watching men’s VB replay on K5. Third set, Umlaf Service Ace…..k5 quick shot to A-Joe. Man, forget Vili the Warrior, I think our good bro AJoe is becoming the face of UH sports! 🙂

BIK

I think that it is crazy that the Athletic Director at Kansas made $4 million last year! In 2010 he will “only” get his $900,000 salary and won’t get those special bonuses.

Perkins’ pay is the equivalent of $85,000 a week — about 10 KU students’ average yearly tuition payments. What’s more, $4.4 million appears to place Perkins far beyond that of any athletic director in the nation.

“It is what it is,” he said. “It was all based on when I got hired, negotiated from day one. … It was all part of the deal of me leaving Connecticut to come here.”

Happy Easter to all the Tsai-ko regulars and lurkers!!!

Remember that He died for all of us.

Whoo-hoo!!!

Jake Huen is no good in the middle, hopefully some new kid can come in and take over that position ASAP because that kid cannot play.

was there a/c last night?

Really? It is Koakane’s birthday?

Then, in your honor . . .

Hippo birdie two ewes
Hippo birdie two ewes
Hippo birdie KK
Hippo birdie two ewes!

Have a good one!!!

Aloha Gang,

I know the “proof will be in the pudding” down the road, but after checking out practice first hand yesterday, I must admit I am very “inspired” by the efforts of newly named Defensive Coordinator Dave Aranda.
I, for a long time have been convinced in the convictions of Nick Rolovich on offense, however, somewhat “suspect” of Aranada.

Well, NO MORE.

I mean the guys are flying around, there’s a new intensity about them, there’s a sense of physicality, a whole new energy….I LOVE IT

….and I not talkin’ about Koakane! 😯 😆 😈

re: #162

MLB could be our Achilles Heel.

d1 . . .

#167

Whoo-hoo!!!

Kazz- 145- Sr. Night was BEAUTIFUL!!!

Hauoli Lahanau, KOAKANE!!!

Aloha Kakahiaka and Happy Easter, everybody!!!

HAPPY EASTER TSAIKOS from Waiehu

Good Luck to Mr. DeMello

GO WARRIORS!!

Happy Easter Everybody!

Praise and thanks to God for His Son, our Risen Savior!

Good morning Tsaikos.

testing

GDL for MLB!

Good Morning Tsaikos and Tsaikettes!

Happy Easter to all!

Good Easter Morning Tsaikos–sj & myki

***KELLY MAJAM WITH HR #20*** (2-run homer)

Oh, well, it’s KK’s birfday and pouring rain in a valley on the windward side and I blame————-, nah, really, Happy Birfday to our great Koakane!!!!!!!

We were sitting 1 section over from A-Joe and company and we could his booming voice all match – way to 2 go!!!!!!

GO, softball Wahines – beat the crap out of NAMASU!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Chawan:

Glad to see that you made it safely across the Pacific and continent!

U would have enjoyed the match last night.

got em?

Wahine 5
NMSU 0

J-Rod and Iwata with solo homers a piece.

A-House,
Thank you very much!

final 13-1, UH with 5 homers, 13 for the 3 game series. That is why the preseason is so important for the UH RPI should the Na Wahine not win the WAC tournament.

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