Highlights, No. 10-ranked Kalani visits Kahuku in Oahu Interscholastic Association East Division girls basketball. Wednesday, Dec. 27, 2017. Thomas Walker Gymnasium, Kahuku High School.
The Kamehameha Warriors went 3-1 and took the consolation-bracket title at The Classic at Damien High School in California. Kamehameha lost its opening-round game to Colony (Ontario, Calif.) on Wednesday. On Thursday, the Warriors broke open a 26-all game in the second half to defeat Fountain Valley (Calif.) 59-50. The Warriors were tied at 14 after one quarter against Jordan (Long Beach, Calif.), and went on to a 63-50 victory. Kamehameha then edged Blair (Pasadena, Calif.) 67-64 in overtime on […]
Most of the Hilo Vikings weren’t born yet the last time the program won a state championship in boys basketball. It was 2000, when Jason Mandaquit and his blonde hairdo ran the point for the team that carried 13 sticks bound together from one gym to the next. With Wes Martinez fortifying the team, leaving his beloved rooster behind in Ka‘u to play with childhood pal Mandaquit, the Vikings were a team of destiny. It was the final state title […]
The last day of basketball is here. As the Year 2017 A.D. nears its end, so does the game of roundball as we know it. It was good, no, fantastic while it lasted. It was a time that changed us, an era of sport that was like none other. And now, I bid you farewell and aloha, Basketball of the Year 2017. Wait. Are there any games tomorrow? Here’s a look at the scores and schedule for the final day […]
The message was clear from coach Ron Durant to his St. Francis Saints. Everyone step up. With the Saints on the verge of something more than just cool — they’d just knocked off mighty Sequoia (Calif.) in the quarterfinals of the Punahou Invitational — they might achieve something new. By Friday night, the fifth-ranked Saints had a stunning 55-48 upset win over No. 2 Maryknoll at Hemmeter Fieldhouse. They did it despite leading scorer Kameron Ng sitting for almost the […]
This is Final 4 day, semifinal-round play and consolation bracket battles at the Punahou Invitational. Had some work to clear out this morning and got here to Hemmeter Fieldhouse by 12:30 p.m. for the tip-off between No. 9 Kamehameha-Hawaii and a very talented, freshman-heavy Damien squad. Capsules below will be newest to oldest, or reverse chronological order. Consolation Bracket No. 1 Punahou 44, Tesoro (Calif.) 41, final Cole Mausolf’s 3 gives Punahou a 43-41 lead, and a blocked shot by […]
Kapolei at Mililani sounded like a game without a lot of pizazz. I was still interested, though, when the assignment came my way. How does Kapolei respond after a week of outstanding basketball? Mililani might not be at powerhouse form this year, but they’ll be scrappy, and they’ll be playing at home. Stranger things have happened. But to supplement my diet of hoops, I squeezed in a quarterfinal game at the Punahou Invitational. St. Francis against the mighty Cherokee of […]
There might not be another season in the history of prep football in Hawaii that had a bigger clear-cut winner of the offensive player of the year award. Saint Louis’ Timmy Chang still holds the record today for most passing yards in a season, finishing with 3,985 yards and 64 touchdowns for the Crusaders to headline the 1999 prep football all-star teams. His best target was senior Gerald Welch, who also holds the single-season state receiving mark of 1,689 yards […]