Boys basketball

One by one they waited. Friends, classmates, even former teammates all lined up — long after the senior night festivities had ended at Mid-Pacific gym on Tuesday — to present a lei and share a special embrace with a friend who’s enduring a trying time. Mid-Pacific senior basketball player Ben Swanson returned from Minnesota to be on the bench one last time and share the experience of senior night with his Owls teammates. His father, Brad, who is fighting an […]

Kahuku has all the parts and now that the OIA playoffs are a week away, the Red Raiders’ job is to do the finishing work on their boys basketball product. They’ve got board bangers (6-foot-7 Denhym Brooke, 6-6 Hyrum Harris, 6-foot-4 Bradlee Anae and the scrappy 6-foot Kesi Ah-Hoy). They’ve got smooth guards (Tamamoko Green, Samuta Avea, Keanu Akina, Alohi Gilman). They’ve got shooters and creative drivers (Harris, Akina, Tamanui Nagy, Brooke, Anae). They’re deep and they come at you […]

First round, Friday DI: Kailua at Mililani, 730 DI: Waianae at Farrington, 6 DI: McKinley at Pearl City, 6 DI: Radford at Moanalua, 6 DII: Waipahu at Kalani, 6 DII: Waialua vs. Kaimuki at Mililani, 530 Second round, Saturday DI: Mililani or Kailua at Kalaheo, 6 DI: Farrington or Waianae at Campbell, 6 DI: Pearl City or McKinley at Kahuku, 6 DI: Moanalua or Radford at Leilehua, 7 DII: Waialua or Kaimuki at Kaiser, 6 DII: Kalani or Waipahu at Aiea, 6

Tuesday will be more than just a game for the Mid-Pacific boys basketball team. Much much more. It’ll be senior aloha night, sure, but what will make this game special, meaningful and emotional will be the return of a player who saw the lives of his family, especially his father, get turned cruelly upside down and inside out in just a few short months. Senior Ben Swanson will fly back from Minnesota to participate in the 5 p.m. game at […]