Kealakehe brought just enough pitching to the party to keep it reasonably close, but that aside, the BIIF Division I baseball semifinals once again served as mere preliminaries.
No surprise, Waiakea and Hilo are on to the final.
Eager to get ready for a best-of-three championship that starts Friday at Wong Stadium, neither rival wasted much time Saturday.
Shortly after the Warriors put away Keaau 13-1 on their home field in a five-inning TKO that lasted approximately 70 minutes, just up the road on Kawili Street at UH-Hilo, the Vikings finished off the Waveriders 8-1.
“I just hope that we get to put everything together for the next few weeks and play our best baseball at the end of the season,” said Vikings coach Tony De Sa, whose team’s only two BIIF loses this season came against Waiakea.