Na Koa Ikaika Maui Na Koa Ikaika Maui On December 23, 2009, Michael Cummings, the CEO of XnE, Inc. that founded the team, announced the hiring of former St. George RoadRunners skipper Cory Snyder as the first manager and the signing of 30-year-old GBL veteran Mark Okano. The team also signed 2009 Golden Baseball League All-Star Fehlandt Lentini. The team's colors are black, green, yellow and red in keeping with the spirit of the Islands. The team's logo and uniforms can now be found at their website. In late August 2010, was acquired by a new ownership group, Hawaii Baseball LLC, based out of
Koa wilt mortality rate over several years due to Koa wilt. It is also a legume, giving it the ability to form symbiosis with nitrogen fixing bacteria, which has led to efforts to use koa in agroecological systems with crops such as coffee and cacao. Ecologically, koa is an important species because it is one of the few native trees that remains dominant in alien mixed forests on the Hawaiian Islands. Invasive species make up the majority of the State's current plant population. Koa trees also are important because provide a habitat for many native bird species. Historically, there were once two