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The Konawaena Wildcats landed three players on the all-tournament team at the Snapple/HHSAA Girls Basketball State Championships at Blaisdell Center. Senior guard Cherilyn Molina was selected the tournament’s most outstanding player for a second year in a row as the Wildcats upset top-seeded Maryknoll 47-32 in the final. Teammates Mikayla Tablit and Caiyle Kaupu was also voted to the team. Senior guard Saydee Aganus, who led Kamehameha-Hawaii over top-seeded St. Francis 41-32 in the Division II final, was picked most […]

Numbers reflect action. For nine weeks, Maryknoll was the No. 1 team in the Star-Advertiser Girls Basketball Top 10. Not just the team at the top, but the Lady Spartans were a unanimous No. 1 from the first poll until last week. Today, voters followed the action and Konawaena is No. 1 in the season finale, collecting all 14 first-place votes. The Wildcats (26-2) ran the table at the Snapple/HHSAA Girls Basketball State Championships, beating Moanalua 59-32, No. 3 Lahainaluna […]

In the year 2018, the Kamehameha-Hawaii Warriors confirmed a widespread belief that there is and always has been a commitment in the Big Island Interscholastic Federation to excellence in girls basketball. The Warriors put their seal of triumph into the history books by pounding top-seeded St. Francis 41-32 on Saturday night in the Division II final of the Snapple/HHSAA Girls Basketball State Championships at Blaisdell Center. Along with Konawaena’s four-peat of the D-I state title, the BIIF laid claim to […]

Epic? This was rematch squared. A continuing saga of Shakespearean-level drama and destiny. In the end, the talented, deep, top-seeded Maryknoll Spartans still couldn’t topple the big green Wildcats at the top of the mountain. Konawaena’s 47-32 win for a state-title four-peat was a demonstration in death by a thousand paper cuts. The Wildcats executed Coach Bobbie Awa’s game plan to the nth degree of success. By the end, it was as if Konawaena (26-2 including nonconference games) extended its […]