Coach Tracy Miyashiro kept asking Jessica Cameros if she was OK, and each time he got the same answer: I’m fine.
Yet all the while during Cameros’ ironwoman performance, Nobu Yamauchi couldn’t buy a hit, much less a run.
Finally, it stole one.
Moana Pinner laid down an impromptu suicide squeeze bunt Wednesday, at long last breaking a scoreless tie, and Cameros’ 11-inning tour de force carried the Hilo-based softball team into the RBI World Series semifinals in Cincinnati with a 1-0 victory against Hoboken, N.J.
“I asked her about four times how she was doing,” Miyashiro said.