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The Maryknoll players were all in super-high spirits soon after their ILH championship-clinching 55-42 home victory over Punahou on Monday night. Intense coach Kelly Grant was seen relaxing — imagine that? — in a chair while the Spartans used a ladder to do the net-cutting. Two titles in a row. That doesn’t happen very often at the private Catholic school. Actually, it hasn’t been done since coach Tony Sellitto did the trick in the early 1980s. Sellitto, fittingly, was in […]

They work on it every day. Everett Torres-Kahapea never takes a shot he never met. This time, it was a drive from the wing to the baseline, looking for that perfect bank shot off the glass. Hundreds, thousands of repetitions came to fruition on Monday night as Torres-Kahapea drove away from the screen-side defense, lifted up outside the right block and softly kissed the glass from 10 feet out for the go-ahead basket as No. 8 Kailua edged No. 9 […]

The term “elimination” has taken on a different meaning for the St. Francis Saints. Last month, the school announced that it would close down from grades seven to 12 next academic year. That means each elimination game, like the one St. Francis won last Thursday against Mid-Pacific, could mean not just the end of the season. It could be the end of the program, and the Saints seem to have taken that to heart. St. Francis improved to 2-0 with […]