Football

Mililani’s 53-45 win over Punahou in the 2014 Division I state football final capped the best season in Trojans football history. Mililani swept the top awards of the All-State team with quarterback McKenzie Milton winning offensive player of the year honors, defensive tackle Rex Manu earning the top defensive award and Rod York winning coach of the year. York remains at Mililani while Milton, who was a junior in high school in 2014, just quarterbacked Central Florida to an undefeated […]

Hawaii High School Athletic Association executive director Chris Chun confirmed Monday night that the state football tournament will have two more Oahu Interscholastic Association teams next season. That is based on Chun’s knowledge that the OIA will run the 2018 season in three divisions instead of two, a move that had been anticipated since the fall of 2017. Chun said Monday that the OIA confirmed to him after the last HHSAA football committee meeting earlier this month that it would […]

The 2007 prep season will always be remembered for coach of the year Nolan Tokuda bringing up a quarterback from the junior varsity team named Andrew Manley, who took a 4-4 Mules squad to an OIA and state title. This was also the last season a team not named Kahuku or Mililani won an OIA title in Division I. When it came time to determine the All-State teams, however, the newspapers were very different. The Honolulu Advertiser went with a […]

This year’s Polynesian Bowl served as a homecoming for a few football stars from Hawaii, as Mililani’s McKenzie Milton, Saint Louis alum Marcus Mariota and Lahainaluna product Hercules Mata’afa all made an appearance at Aloha Stadium to watch Team Mauka beat Team Mauka 31-14 on Saturday night. Mata’afa, who just completed his redshirt junior season at Washington State, was honored at the end of the third quarter of the high school football all-star game after being named the Polynesian College […]

Here are some photos from Jay Metzger/Special to the Star-Advertiser, from tonight’s 2018 Polynesian Bowl high school football all-star game at Aloha Stadium. Team Makai, behind two touchdown runs by Lompac (Calif.) running back Toa Taua, who committed to Nevada during the game, defeated Team Mauka, 31-14. BOX SCORE at Aloha Stadium Team Makai 3 14 7 7 — 31 Team Mauka 0 0 7 7 — 14 Makai—FG BT Potter 37 Makai—Blue Smith 19 pass from Tanner McKee (Potter […]