Hawaii High School Post Season Heats Up

The Hawaii High School OIA playoff tournament is well under way. The OIA is comprised of all the public schools on the island of O'ahu (biggest conference in the state). The OIA playoff tournament starts off as a 12 team tournament (top 6 from the East and top 6 from the West). Yesterday all teams that had a first round bye (top 2 from each side) had their first playoff game and all 4 won.

So #1 & #2 from the East and from the West make up today's OIA semifinal match up. Campbell (#1 West) will face Kailua (#2 East) and Mililani (#2 West) will face Moanalua (#1 East). All 4 of these teams have already secured a berth in the Hawaii State Championship tournament which runs from Jan. 31st through Feb. 3rd.

The 4 teams that lost yesterday will play today to try to advance to tomorrow's 5th place game. Winners of the games will advance, losing teams end their season. The ones that do make it to the 5th place game will also secure a spot in the Hawaii Softball State Championship Tournament.

Newspaper coverage of yesterday's games can be read HERE.