“Because of the need for an extended re-conditioning period for our student-athletes and because the high average COVID-19 positive case count on the island has not allowed us to start practices, scrimmages currently set for Saturdays in the month of April will be postponed,” the MIL said in a statement emailed to The Maui News from the state DOE on Tuesday. With the need for nearly a month of conditioning and practices to take place before DOE-approved scrimmages can be held among high school teams, the MIL has given their Saturdays to the APSBL for games to be played on Saturdays at each field, pending and expected approval from the County Parks and Recreation Department. The MIL currently has priority for the use of the Maui High and Eddie Tam fields for weekday practice and games on Saturdays. “At this point it looks promising that we will start April 3rd as requested.” “I got confirmation that the MIL sent an email to the county releasing the fields (on Saturdays) in April and Jon (Viela) with All Pono is in the process submitting some additional paperwork that will be required for the All Pono permit,” Okita said Tuesday. With the Valley Isle’s COVID-19 numbers too high for the state Department of Education to clear the Maui Interscholastic League for practices, the APSBL was born.
Okita, a two-time world champion head coach in Little League play and head coach for Baldwin High School, is the commissioner of the All Pono Spring Baseball League that is set to begin play in April, likely as soon as Saturday. It’s not exactly what they originally had in mind, but Craig Okita and the Maui baseball community will take it.
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