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Saint Louis’ Tagovailoa spirals into starting job

By Nick Abramo on September 10, 2014

Saint Louis coach Cal Lee doesn’t have a quarterback controversy. What he does have is two outstanding players at that position. For the first few games, sophomore Tua Tagovailoa and senior Ryder Kuhns platooned, but now the Tagovailoa owns the starting job. “Tua is our guy at quarterback,” Cal said on the phone Wednesday. “Ryder is supportive and that’s the way it has to be.” Kuhns had a phenomenal year as a junior, throwing for 2,016 yards, 25 touchdowns and […]

Pac-Five passing the time away

By Nick Abramo on September 9, 2014

Saying Pac-Five is a passing team is an understatement. The Wolfpack football team heaves the ball over and over again. Why not? When you play against the behemoths on the defensive sevens of the ILH Division I superpowers, you just, flatly, are not going to be able to mount a running game. So, it’s pass, pass, pass for Pac-Five sophomore quarterback Kainoa Ferreira. He lit up the Halawa sky with 65 attempts in a 60-13 loss to Saint Louis on […]

Authentic football at Waialua

By Nick Abramo on September 8, 2014

Waialua is doing something right. You want real football? Go there. No, it’s not 750 yards of passing with glitzy uniforms and an artificial turf field. This is real grass, and clouds of dirt actually do rise when the players hit the ground. There are no JV games, so the varsity starts at 6 p.m., giving everyone plenty of time to go home and relax and unwind before going to bed. Like some other football fields on Oahu, there are […]

Holmes of the Braves

By Nick Abramo on September 7, 2014

St. John Bosco, the football team from Bellflower, Calif., that visited and beat Saint Louis 63-14 at Aloha Stadium last month, pounded Norwalk, Calif., 48-3 in its second game of the season on Friday night at Cerritos College. It turns out the Braves, who are No. 6 in the MaxPreps national rankings, have a local connection of sorts. Ben Holmes, who played right guard against the Crusaders, started at left guard against Norwalk. His father, Henry Holmes, who is a […]

Kaiser forfeits season opener to Aiea

By Jerry Campany on September 7, 2014

It’s probably a good thing Kaiser’s Cameron Higgins didn’t make a big deal out of his first win as a head coach. It has been taken away from him. Kaiser forfeited its season-opening win when an underclassman who was later found to be on academic probation entered the Cougars’ 52-7 blowout of Aiea with about 3 minutes left in the game. No worries, the Cougars got a legitimate win two weeks later with another blowout. The forfeiture in no way […]

Kamehameha defense comes to play

By Jason Kaneshiro on September 6, 2014

While a Kamehameha offense missing some of its leaders struggled in the first half of Friday’s ILH opener, the Warrior defense remained stifling in a 48-9 win over Saint Francis. Kamehameha held Saint Francis to 24 yards in total offense and pushed the Saints backward for negative-46 rushing yards. Of Saint Francis’ 20 rush attempts, only three passed the line of scrimmage as the Warriors posted 14 tackles for losses, including four sacks. Defensive lineman Kanoa Gilliland set up Kamehameha’s […]

King is a dangerous Monarch

By Nick Abramo on September 6, 2014

When Damien prepares to play Punahou in football, the Monarchs know they will be facing an uphill climb in nearly every facet of the game. And there was nothing different on Friday at Aloha Stadium, when Damien fell 52-6 to the defending Division I state champion Buffanblu. Nothing different at all. The Monarchs’ last win against Punahou came in 1992 by a 28-26 count. Interestingly, a player named Punahou Aina was one of the Monarchs’ top players that season. And […]

Elements favor Hurricanes in their 1st win

By Paul Honda on September 6, 2014

It was almost eerie the way the Moanalua Valley wind and rain fell just as the varsity game’s warmups began. I mean, it was boiling hot and sunny all through the JV game. And the rain and wind hardly let up. It wasn’t a downpour, just a steady sprinkle, sometimes wet enough to create puddles. And on Moanalua’s dirt-baked field — mud lakes are up and down from one end to the other between the hashmarks — that absolutely worked […]

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