Football

There are many ways to gauge a team from start to finish. For neighbor island football programs, it is a long, long way from Point A to Point B. For a defending three-time Division II state champion like Lahainaluna, Week 0 was a mixed bag, losing at home to a D-I contender in the ILH (Damien) in overtime. At the other end of the spectrum, Molokai’s first game in 11-man football since the 1960s was difficult, yet promising despite a […]

Ranked teams went 2-2 on the opening weekend of the prep football season, causing a major shakeup at the bottom of the Honolulu Star-Advertiser Football Top 10 released today. Waianae, which beat defending Division I state champion Waipahu, made the biggest jump into the Top 10 checking in at No. 7. The Seariders hadn’t been ranked since losing to the Marauders to open the 2018 season. Leilehua, which shut out Farrington 35-0 and looked smooth in doing so, is at […]

Wyatt Nahale‘s first game as the Kealakehe head coach could very well have ended in a disaster. But the Waveriders players dug deep and preserved a 13-7 victory over Pearl City at the Chargers’ home field on Saturday night. “We found a way to make it work,” Nahale said with the win in hand and the ability to go back home to the Big Island with that pleasant feeling that comes with it. “In the end, it pretty much came […]