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OIA baseball playoffs begin Wednesday

By Billy Hull on April 22, 2019

After finishing tied for first in the OIA West at 10-2, defending league champion Mililani earned the tiebreaker over Campbell to serve as the top seed entering Wednesday’s OIA baseball playoffs. Kailua, which has won three of the last seven OIA titles, and Kaiser earned the top two seeds out of the East. Waipahu and Radford are the top two seeds and earned byes in the six-team Division II tournament that begins Thursday. The Sabers and Trojans, who are tied […]

Mililani shoots up Star-Advertiser baseball rankings

By Paul Honda on April 22, 2019

The Mililani Trojans have been a tough team for voters to figure out this season. Ranked as high as No. 5 five weeks ago, the Trojans dropped to a season-low No. 10 last week. But wins over Campbell and Pearl City moved the Trojans into a first-place tie with the Sabers at 10-2 to end the OIA West season. They are also tied in the latest Honolulu Star-Advertiser Baseball Top 10 with 43 votes apiece to share the No. 5 […]

VIDEO: Punahou DB Alaka‘i Gilman on offers, national competition

By Paul Honda on April 21, 2019

Punahou junior defensive back Alaka‘i Gilman has been quite busy of late, journeying with Team 808 Elite to the Adidas 7-on-7 National Championships, measuring his college scholarship offers, and training for Punahou’s 2019 football season. Hawaii Prep World’s Paul Honda caught up with him for a video interview below.


High marks set at OIA track and field championships

By Nick Abramo on April 21, 2019

You win some and you lose some. And so it went for some of the state’s best track athletes Saturday night at the OIA championship meet in Mililani. For Campbell’s Leilani Leopard, it was two wins and two close second-place finishes. McKinley’s Narayana Schneider won the 1500, but did not run in the 800, where Kaiser’s Nicholas Georgia surpassed Schneider’s best previous Hawaii time of 2019. Mililani’s Mackenzie Reed remained red hot, winning in the 200 and 400 meters, but […]

Roots, tradition spur Waialua to OIA D-II championship

By Paul Honda on April 21, 2019

Family, tradition, success. Those three components are the link between Waialua’s OIA Division II championship team in 2009 and the team that outscored Radford 22-12 on Saturday night to win the title. Current head coach Rod Dicion was an assistant coach on the ’09 staff. That team went on to reach the state final, losing to Kauai 1-0. “My brother-in-law (Jay Keao) was the head coach of that team. My daughter, Althia, was on that team. When they came to […]

Chloe Sales hurls Campbell to OIA softball title

By Paul Honda on April 21, 2019

No team seemed to have a solution for the hot bats of Leilehua’s softball powerhouse. The Lady Mules had mowed down a string of opponents in recent games. They scored 18 runs in a playoff win over Moanalua. Twelve in a semifinal victory over Waianae. Then came Campbell, and when the Sabers turned to Chloe Sales, she was ready. The southpaw went the final four innings as the Sabers rallied from an early deficit for a 12-3 victory over Leilehua […]

Kaiser splashes through for OIA water polo title

By Brian McInnis on April 20, 2019

Kaiser made like Dory from “Finding Nemo” and just kept swimming … just kept swimming. And before long Saturday afternoon, the Cougars swam right into their first OIA water polo championship. The OIA’s top seed turned to its experience and superior swimming ability to defeat nine-time defending champion Kahuku, completing a dominant run through its league schedule (17-0). Kaiser’s girls became the first school to sweep OIA titles in swimming and diving and water polo in the same school year. […]

Hunter Fujimori rules OIA boys tennis

By Kyle Sakamoto on April 20, 2019

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 […]