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The muscle and hustle is real for the Kahuku Power Co. Even against the low-post bangers of Maryknoll, Kahuku won the battle under the glass and went on to eliminate the ailing, cold bug-ravaged Spartans from state-title contention with a 43-27 win on Thursday night in the Division I quarterfinals of the Snapple/HHSAA Girls Basketball State Championships at Earl C. Holmer Gymnasium. >> PHOTO GALLERY: Kahuku vs. Maryknoll Kahuku’s man-to-man defense was air-tight. Maryknoll coach Chico Furtado, who coached Kahuku […]

Two weeks ago, Na Alii of King Kekaulike were on the outside looking in. In a gut-wrenching turn of events, the girls basketball team went from queen slayers — ending Lahainaluna’s historic 164-game win streak in MIL play — to third place in the standings. Four losses in a span of five games, including two to the same Lady Lunas, forced King Kekaulike into a tiebreaker game with Maui for the second and final state-tourney berth. King Kekaulike prevailed over […]

Kaliana Salazar-Harrell scored 23 points, including five 3-pointers, as Konawaena escaped with a 40-37 win over King Kekaulike on Thursday night in the quarterfinals of the Snapple/HHSAA Girls Basketball State Championships in Division I. “It was very sloppy, so we’re very glad we came out with the win,” Salazar-Harrell said. Second-seeded Konawaena (22-3) will meet OIA champion and third seed Kahuku in the semifinals tonight. Kahuku eliminated Maryknoll 43-27 in the other semifinal at Kalani’s Earl C. Holmer Gymnasium. Freshman […]

When two of the Top 5 teams in the state are unseeded underdogs, the quarterfinal round can be magnetic. Day two of the Snapple/HHSAA Girls Basketball State Championships brings us a Top 3/4 league runner-up (Waiakea), a long-range bomb squad with a puncher’s chance (King Kekaulike), and a season-long Top 4 (Maryknoll) that is a decided favorite against an OIA champion. Here’s a look at tonight’s quarterfinal round, split at two sites. Who misses the years when girls basketball had […]

In a different galaxy, the hoop fanatics among us who aren’t on the Big Island would have transported Star Trek style to Afook-Chinen Hilo Civic Auditorium on Wednesday. Four games in the opening round of the Snapple/HHSAA Girls Basketball Division II State Champions in a classic venue. Beam us up, Scotty! True, only one game was decided by a single-digit margin and the other three were 12-, 35- and 38-point games. No major surprise there. But the rest of this […]