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Can Mililani keep this offensive pace all year?

By Paul Honda on August 17, 2014

You’d have to play Madden or NCAA 14, load up your lineup with All-Pros (or All-Americans) and go no-huddle (sometimes hurry up) all game long to rack up crazy numbers like this. Yes, the scoreboard at John Kauinana Stadium binged and banged like a pinball machine on Saturday night. For both Mililani and Saint Louis. Keeping stats would’ve been much simpler if the UH statistics crew (with all their fancy machinery) would’ve been there. Instead, it was left to this […]

Na Menehune come up big in opener

By Nick Abramo on August 16, 2014

One of the beautiful things about football is that the complexion of a game can change in a matter of minutes. For instance, take Moanalua’s 30-23 season-opening victory over No. 8 Waianae on Friday night. When the third-quarter closed, all that was left for Moanalua to do was control the ball and the clock, wrap up what looked like it would be a blowout, get on the bus and get out of there. Na Menehune, after all, held a commanding […]

Kahuku-Kapolei: Tragedy for Hurricane ohana

By Paul Honda on August 16, 2014

No mistaking it, Kahuku is still a run-first team. Forty carries for 222 yards on the ground say it all, especially against a big, physical Kapolei defense in a tough 33-19 nonconference win. But it was the way the Red Raiders amassed their yardage that was different. Counters. Options, which weren’t altogether different, except that quarterback Tuli Wily-Matagi was able to stop on a dime before pitching and fire spirals for first downs Over time, the variations of Kahuku’s offense […]


Kaiser’s Higgins passes first test

By Billy Hull on August 15, 2014

Cameron Higgins is the first to admit he didn’t quite know what he was in for when he accepted the head coaching job at Kaiser. Just 26 years old, Higgins was handed the tough task of trying to follow up Rich Miano‘s two-year run as Cougars head coach, which included 20 wins, an OIA White title and a Division II state title. A long summer ended on Friday night at Kaiser Stadium when Higgins led his Cougars onto the field […]

LIVE BLOG: Kapolei at Kahuku

By Paul Honda on August 15, 2014

6:45 p.m. I’m going to attempt keeping statistics, shooting video and live blogging for the varsity game. Please forgive if I don’t blog immediately. I’m going to try anyway. As you can see (photos below), they’ve spruced up the facility here at Carleton Weimer Field. The field is lush and marked for every yard, the first time I can remember. There are, as Red Raiders coach Lee Leslie promised, 36 flags at the top of the bleachers. It’s rare to […]

Punahou looking for another Kang crown

By Jerry Campany on August 14, 2014

Despite a stacked field, the Ann Kang Volleyball Invitational championship goes through Punahou. The Buffanblu are going for their third straight tournament title this year, trying to match Mira Costa in 2002-2004 as the only team to three-peat. Punahou has not lost a match in Iolani’s preseason tilt since the 2009 championship against Redondo Union, winning all eight of its matches the last two years and dropping only two sets. This year’s field features five of the top 10 teams […]

Kauai facing another uphill climb

By Nick Abramo on August 12, 2014

A lot of attention went to the Kaiser football team a year ago, and deservedly so. The Cougars won the Division II state title, after all. It’s kind of a foggy memory now, but a neighbor-island team came close to upsetting them in the final game, and that fact gets kind of lost in the media hubbub that swirled around Kaiser throughout the 2013 season and beyond. Yes, Kauai High was locked into a 7-7 tie with the Cougars to […]

ILH, HHSAA deny Slade-Matautia

By Paul Honda on August 11, 2014

Former Kaiser football player Isaac Slade-Matautia has been near and far in the past nine months. Now enrolled at Saint Louis as a sophomore, he practices every day, but that’s the extent of his playing at the prep level. “He is not eligible to play (football) this year,” ILH executive director Don Botelho said on Monday. Slade-Matautia, who started at Kaiser last year as a freshman, will have to sit out one year before becoming eligible to play football for […]