What coach Dennis Segovia likes best about his Little League squad of 13 players is that they are a “team of fighters.”
“From the beginning to the end,” Segovia said. “You can see it in their eyes.”
Hilo didn’t quite need that bulldog mentality Monday in Kapaau, not after a pair of home runs set course for an 11-1 TKO victory against North Hawaii to clinch the district championship for ages 11-12.
On the second pitch in the bottom of the first, Koa Ogawa hit as homer, the first of his two hits.
“That set the tone and started everything in the right direction,” Segovia said.