Iolani's Micah Yonamine was the only high school draftee out of the six total players with Hawaii ties taken on the final day of the MLB Draft. Greg Yamamoto | SL

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Iolani's Micah Yonamine was the only high school draftee out of the six total players with Hawaii ties taken on the final day of the MLB Draft. Greg Yamamoto | SL

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Six players with ties to Hawaii were picked on the final day of the Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft Wednesday.

» Dylan Thomas, University of Hawaii, RHP, 13th round (389th overall) by the Minnesota Twins

» Edgar Barclay, Cal State-Bakersfield, LHP, 15th round (465) by the New York Yankees. He is the first St. Joseph alumnus (2016) to be drafted.

» Codie Paiva, Loyola Marymount, RHP, 22nd round (651) by the Miami Marlins. The 2015 Kamehameha graduate was an All-Hawaii first-team pick as a third baseman that year.

» Trayson Kubo, Stephen F. Austin, RHP, 24th round (734) by the Oakland Athletics. The 2015 Leilehua alumnus was a second-team All-Hawaii pitcher that season. He is the first Leilehua alumnus picked since Scott Loucks in 1977 (Loucks attended, but did not graduate from Leilehua).

» Micah Yonamine, Iolani '19, 29th round (870) by the Philadelphia Phillies. The Illinois State commit batted .500 and led the state with 34 RBIs. A day earlier, his classmate, Shane Sasaki, was a third-round pick by Tampa Bay. This marks the sixth time high school classmates were taken in the same draft of the year of their graduation.

» Anthony "Bubba" Hoopii-Tuionetoa, Pierce JC (Washington), RHP, 30th round (895) by the Texas Rangers. The 2018 Baldwin graduate, ScoringLive's All-Hawaii Player of the Year in 2018, was taken in the 16th round last year by Minnesota.

Sasaki and Yonamine join these prep classmates who were taken in the same draft (Does not include high school classmates who were drafted later as collegians):

2011 - Pitcher Robert Kahana and catcher Pookela Kaalekahi of Campbell.
2009 - Third baseman Bryson Namba and catcher Carlton Tanabe of Pearl City.
2001 - Shortstop Bronson Sardinha and pitcher Hubert Pruett of Kamehameha-Kapalama.
1999 - Infielders Jandin Thornton-Murray and Chad Santos of Saint Louis.
1997 - Pitcher Justin Wayne and first baseman Scooter Martines of Punahou.
1996 - Outfielder Makani Lum and third baseman Billy Pieper of Kamehameha-Kapalama.