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Buffanblu collar baseball: Do your job

By Paul Honda on April 29, 2016

Jobs were won, jobs were lost. Jobs were won back. The internal competition for starting roles, contributing roles, any kind of role has been part of the machinery that makes this year’s Punahou baseball team intriguing. And even at 12-9, they are probably, as Mid-Pacific coach Dunn Muramaru says, the most dangerous team in the state. With a 5-2 win over Saint Louis on Thursday, the Buffanblu booked their tickets to fly off-island to the state tourney on Maui. The […]

The Crusade: Red-hot runs, ice-cold blues

By Paul Honda on April 29, 2016

The anguish was clearly visible. It was, in the end, a painful close to what had been, at one point, a dreamy baseball season for the Saint Louis Crusaders (11-7). That is the reality of athletics in the Interscholastic League of Honolulu, where as many as five teams were ranked in the Star-Advertiser Top 10 this spring. For Saint Louis, a 5-2 defeat at the hands of Punahou left that cherished second state-tournament berth just out of reach. It was […]

HHSAA baseball brackets

By Jerry Campany on April 29, 2016

ILH champion Mid-Pacific will still be flying high when its baseball team lands on Maui. The ILH champion Owls were awarded the top seed in the upcoming Wally Yonamine Foundation Baseball State Championships at Iron Maehara Stadium beginning May 4. Mid-Pacific opens its tournament with a second-round game against the winner between OIA runner up Kalani and annual power Mililani. MIL champion Baldwin gets the second seed along with the home cooking, awaiting the winner between Hilo and Waipahu. OIA […]


Don’t remind Cabanting of past state finishes

By Nick Abramo on April 29, 2016

Six Oahu Interscholastic Association championships in a row is quite impressive, but it’s not the whole ball of wax that every volleyball player in the league dreams about. The state tournament is next week for Moanalua Na Menehune, who earned that sixth straight league title in a four-set victory over previously undefeated Mililani at the Radford gym Thursday night. “Don’t remind me,” said Moanalua head coach Alan Cabanting, when asked how far Na Menehune (14-0) has made it in the […]

Another no-no for Pearl City’s ‘Peanut Butter’

By Jason Kaneshiro on April 28, 2016

Tyanna “Peanut Butter” Kaaialii was 11 when she was given her distinctive nickname upon joining a team in California. Now 16, the Pearl City junior distinguished herself over the last two days by playing a leading role in back-to-back no-hitters for the Chargers. A day after throwing the first four innings in Pearl City’s combined no-hitter against Moanalua, Kaaialii tossed a complete-game no-no in the Chargers’ 8-0 win at Kaiser on Thursday in the quarterfinals of the OIA Division I […]

Big battles shaping up in OIA boys judo

By Jerry Campany on April 28, 2016

Unlike the alphabet soup that makes up boxing, there can only be one champion in each weight class in OIA judo. The league will determine its title holders this weekend, with Kahuku’s LeRod Tongi earning the top seed in the East at 220 pounds. He has reigning OIA champion Matt Miner of Aiea on his side of the bracket in the No. 4 spot and Kalani’s James Lawhn, who took the title in 2014, sitting in the third spot. Kapolei’s […]

122-pound class stacked at OIA judo

By Jerry Campany on April 28, 2016

The 122-pound class expects to be the toughest at the girls portion of the OIA Judo championships this weekend, with Kalani’s Phoebe Pineda-Abaya drawing the top of the bracket and the bye that comes with it. After that, she will have some work to do to defend it. She faces the winner between Azaria Tandal of Kapolei and 2014 OIA champion Sienna Ho of Moanalua. Waiting on the bottom of the bracket in the second seed is Pearl City’s Netanya […]

P.C., Moanalua gap widens (+ full box score)

By Nick Abramo on April 27, 2016

They came into Wednesday’s Oahu Interscholastic Association softball game with similar records, but when it was all over, the gap had widened considerably. Part of it is the division they play in. Pearl City went 6-6 in the OIA West softball standings. Moanalua went 5-7 in the East. The Chargers are seeded fourth and Na Menehune fifth. Close game, you would think, right? Didn’t turn out that way. Maybe that’s why many Honolulu Star-Advertiser Top 10 voters are giving lots […]