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Hawaii AAU Baseball Growing the Game

By AAU Baseball, 01/16/16, 11:45AM CST

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Konawaena High School & Big Island AAU Baseball Host Skills Clinic

by AAU Baseball - Head Coach Adam Tabieros, his staff, and players of Konawaena High School on the Big Island of Hawaii took time out of their busy practice schedule to host the AAU players of Big Island Baseball for an absolutely great two hour skills and conditioning clinic. Players from 5 to 13 years of age learned valuable new skills and proper training methods from some amazing coaches and players. 

Big Island Baseball is grateful for the support of coach Adam, his staff and players.

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Growing the Game: Big Island Baseball, Konaweana combine for Clinic

By J.R. De Groote, West Hawaii Today, jdegroote@westhawaiitoday.com

KAILUA-KONA — The high school baseball season is still a little ways away, but that didn’t stop upwards of 100 youth ballplayers who showed up at Gabby Inaba Field to receive some tutelage from the Konawaena players and coaches at a clinic on Friday.

The event — a combined effort between Big Island Baseball and the Wildcats — focused on the fundamentals of America’s pastime, teaching everything from how to catch a pop fly to baserunning.

“Konawaena coach Adam Tabieros was nice enough to invite us down and let us work with all his players,” Big Island Baseball president John Poggensee said. “We are trying to get the kids interested in the sport, develop their skill levels, and hopefully form what can become a feeder league into his high school program.”

It’s no secret that baseball on the west side of the island has not thrived as well as it has on the east. The number of recent BIIF titles won by east-side schools and the growing roster of MLB draft picks are evidence of that. Kids from the Hilo area also have names like St. Louis Cardinals second baseman Kolten Wong, a Kamehameha-Hawaii grad, and Milwaukee Brewers first round pick Kodi Medeiros — a former Waiakea hurler — to look up to as obvious role models. (finish article)