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Kahuku remains No. 1 in Football Top 10 for fifth-straight week

By Paul Honda on November 29, 2021

Kahuku collected 10 of 12 first-place votes to remain at No. 1 in the Star-Advertiser Football Top 10 on Monday. Coach Sterling Carvalho’s squad leap-frogged Saint Louis on Nov. 1 and has remained at the top of the rankings for five weeks in a row. Kahuku is 6-0 after a 49-23 win over No. 5 Campbell to close the OIA Open Division regular season. The Top 10 is status quo with one position switch. Waianae moved up to No. 9. […]

All business: Kahuku closes OIA Open regular season a perfect 6-0

By Paul Honda on November 27, 2021

Kings of the road and then some. Kahuku closed out the OIA Open Division regular season with a 49-23 rout on Saturday, capping a perfect run at 6-0. They did it with the same balance that started the season. Doing it with a backup quarterback, Waika Crawford, makes the evolution of Kahuku’s passing attack even more stupendous. Crawford threw four touchdown passes in the first half, three to Kealoha Kaio, as the team in all-red took a 42-0 lead into […]

Kalaheo’s Ben Zerr, Mililani’s Zola O’Donnell win OIA cross country titles

By Paul Honda on November 27, 2021

The culture begins with pain, but endures with love. Kalaheo captured its third consecutive girls team title on Saturday morning at the OIA cross country championships at Patsy Mink Central Oahu Regional Park. “Every year, the kids are great, the parents are great. We’ve got good senior leaders creating a culture here,” said Kalaheo coach Peter Jay, now in his 10th season. The boys team of Kalani, likewise, won a fourth OIA title in a row, including the last three […]

OIA football playoffs set in all 3 divisions

By Billy Hull on November 27, 2021

Although the regular season hasn’t ended in both Division I and Division II, the OIA playoffs are set after Saturday night’s games. No. 1-ranked Kahuku finished off an undefeated regular season with a 49-23 win over Campbell on Saturday night in Ewa Beach. The Red Raiders (6-0) will play No. 4 seed Waianae (3-3) in an Open Division semifinal game on Saturday, Dec. 4, at 6:30 p.m. at Skippa Diaz Stadium. No. 2 seed Mililani (4-1), which saw its game […]

A miraculous comeback for Moanalua in 27-21 win over Roosevelt

By Paul Honda on November 27, 2021

Keenan McCaddy has never been in a high school championship game. He looked ready for the part on Friday night, hauling in a 36-yard pass on fourth-and-22 to keep the potential game-winning drive alive. On the next snap, the 6-foot-4 two-way playmaker came through with a 56-yard touchdown, the fourth scoring strike of the night for quarterback Taylor Malloe. Just like that, 27 unanswered points by Moanalua in a wild 27-21 win over Roosevelt. “Coach (Vince Nihipali) is proud of […]

Nick Velasquez’s basketball journey leads to Armenia

By Paul Honda on November 26, 2021

Back in the day, Nick Velasquez would be in the gym by 5 a.m. to get extra shooting reps. No more. The former Star-Advertiser All-State selection from Punahou gets those shots up whenever he wants now. Life as a professional basketball player has its perks. Velasquez recently signed with the BC Mad Foxes and plays in Yerevan, Armenia. “Kawika Lyons’ agency actually helped me find the job. For this particular job, I ended up playing in a preseason tour and […]

OIA D-I chase in hands of frontrunners Moanalua, Aiea, Waipahu

By Paul Honda on November 24, 2021

Boil it down and the puzzle of OIA Division I football playoff possibilities is still a Rubik’s Cube of wonder. For one-loss teams Moanalua, Waipahu and Aiea, earning one of the two playoff spots — the only playoff game is a championship matchup — is a matter of seizing the day. “Win and we’re in,” Na Menehune coach Vince Nihipali said of the title game. “We control our own destiny, and these kids have that golden opportunity to close this […]

Kapolei’s singing sack man: Iosefa Tapeni draws big comparisons

By Paul Honda on November 23, 2021

There were choices to be made in the thick fog of a global pandemic. Iosefa Tapeni opted to grind as often as possible. Then a sophomore, the Kapolei two-way lineman trained like few others. As a junior, the 6-foot-3, 288-pound LT/DL has nine sacks in five games, a total of 14 tackles for loss. Kapolei is 1-4 in the rugged OIA Open Division, but its defensive unit has played at a high level. That explosiveness that Tapeni uses to take […]

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