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2024 Baseball Roster

Chris Henstra

22 Wailele Kane-Yates

  • Position C/INF
  • Class Sophomore
  • Hometown Koloa, Hawaii
  • Highschool Kauai

Biography

2024 (Sophomore): Earned First-Team All-Conference and First-Team All-Region honors… YC's backstop and cleanup hitter played in 51 games this season and followed up his freshman campaign with an even more impressive sophomore campaign with a .354 batting average, 43 runs scored, 56 hits, 13 doubles, 13 homers, 42 RBI's, 17 walks, an OBP of .441 and SLG% of .684. Kane-Yates tied the team and conference lead in homers with Nelson and finished fourth in the conference in SLG%. Behind the dish, Kane-Yates gunned down 10 would-be base stealers this season while holding a .986 fielding percentage. 
Stats

2023 (Freshman): Played in 43 games for the Roughriders and hit .289 with 32 runs scored, 44 hits, nine doubles, two triples, eight homers, 42 RBI’s and 23 walks… Threw out 14 would-be base stealers and had a RCS% of .333. 
Stats

High School: Kane-Yates graduated from Kauai High School in May of 2022. While there, he led the state in batting average, hits and triples while leading his division in hits, batting average, triples, doubles and homers. 

Personal: Kane-Yates was born in Lihue, Hawaii, on May 11, 2004. His hobbies include surfing and welding and he plans to study business at YC.

Historical Player Information

  • 22

    2023Freshman

    C/INF
    22
  • 22

    2024Sophomore

    C/INF
    22