LIHU‘E — The coaches were all ears and demonstrated no hesitation, Saturday at the Lihu‘e County Park. “I teach things that no make sense, but it gets results,” said Dunn Muramaru, the head coach for Mid Pacific Institute on O‘ahu.
LIHU‘E — The coaches were all ears and demonstrated no hesitation, Saturday at the Lihu‘e County Park.
“I teach things that no make sense, but it gets results,” said Dunn Muramaru, the head coach for Mid Pacific Institute on O‘ahu.
Muramaru, who was accompanied by three other members of the Owls baseball coaching staff, led a baseball clinic for coaches, Saturday attended by an assortment of coaches from the Lihu‘e Baseball League which is winding down its Shetland division program and preparing to open up its Pinto division program.
The head coach lost little time getting coaches involved in the game of baseball, noting that if they don’t know how it feels, they become less effective as coaches.
Attending coaches donned mitts as they piled out of the bleachers and took the field in a series of throwing exercises, Muramaru talking about real-world experiences players face both during practice and in real-game situations.
Joining the Mid Pacific coach were the Owls’ pitching coach, Craig Hayashi, two other staff members as well as Dunn’s brother, Gordan Muramaru, a teacher at Kapa‘a Middle School and a player for the Makaweli Indians AJA team, and Keith Kitamura, a teacher at Kapa‘a High School and a coach for the Warrior baseball team.
Using a handful of LBL players who turned out for the clinic, Muramaru said the clinic is “highly interactive.”
“You’ve got to know how it feels to be able to coach effectively,” Muramaru said.
Mid Pacific has been the state baseball champions four times, the most recent in 2002, and a three-year reign between 1990 through 1992.
The Owls have been state runner-up five times, the most recent in 2004.
