Tennis

The singles titles at the HMSA Hawaii Tennis Championships are in new hands now. The doubles winners added onto their school’s winning streaks. Hawaii Prep’s Ryo Minakata beat Hobbes Winstead 7-6 (5), 6-3 for his school’s first state title in the sport, and Jessalyn Lopez of Kihei Charter dispatched Waiakea’s Maile Brilhante 7-7 (3), 6-4 to give her program the same honor. While Ka Makani athletes have collected state titles in various sports, Lopez joins Maya Reynolds as the only […]

Down South, some folks remedy a case of muscle cramps by drinking pickle juice. Pickle juice, the sour, tart and salty stuff that most people toss out when the jar is empty of actual pickles. It works to varying degrees, though some will say that it is not a permanent, effective treatment, not like magnesium — from dark green, leafy vegetables and nuts. Chicago Cubs pitcher Jason Hammel dealt with cramping issues in 2016 by following doctor’s orders. He ate […]

Jerry Domingo compares his only daughter, Sarah Domingo, to Michael Chang, the relentless tennis star of yesteryear. “She’s smart like him,” said the father, who regularly trained Sarah and her brothers, Warren and Trent, on the sunny Tamura Tennis Courts in Waianae. Domingo captured her fourth OIA girls tennis individual championship last weekend, becoming the first since Alyssa Tobita of Mililani to pull off the slam. The Pearl City senior excels in the classroom with a 4.055 grade-point average and […]

Mililani’s Hunter Fujimori now has a boys singles title to go along with the doubles crowns he’s won at the OIA Tennis Individual Championships. Fujimori beat Pearl City’s Rylan Woo 6-3, 6-4 in the boys singles final. Fujimori, a junior, had won OIA doubles titles with Tobey Chang in 2017 and Aidan Rooney last season. Fujimori said he switched to singles this season because, “I felt my game was developed enough and I was ready and, of course, Andre Ilagan […]

Pearl City’s Sarah Domingo once again proved she’s the queen of the court, claiming her fourth OIA girls singles championship. Domingo defeated Kalaheo’s Larissa Teramura 6-1, 5-7, 6-2 for the girls singles crown Saturday at Central Oahu Regional Park. She is the first to complete the slam since Mililani’s Alyssa Tobita. “Four years, it’s pretty difficult, but I couldn’t have done it without all my family, my friends and especially my coaches and teammates supporting me,” Domingo said. Teramura, a […]