Football

Football has become a pass-happy sport over the last decade, but that trend seems to have come to an end in 2017. This season there have been an average of 20.7 points scored per team in the OIA playoffs, the lowest since an 18.8 mark in 2011. But points scored or points against doesn’t tell the story of defenses, the number of elite performances against it does. And there have not been many this year. Kapolei’s Titus Mokiao-Atimalala is the […]

Mililani overtook Kahuku in the Star-Advertiser Football Top 10 on Monday. Don’t look at me. Pupule FB ballot 10/23/17 1. Saint Louis Crusaders (8-0) 2. Kahuku Red Raiders (9-1) 3. Mililani Trojans (10-0) 4. Kamehameha Warriors (4-5) 5. Punahou Buffanblu (5-3) 6. Lahainaluna Lunas (9-1) 7. Waipahu Marauders (9-0) 8. Campbell Sabers (7-4) 9. Waianae Seariders (6-4) 10. Leilehua Mules (6-3) My only change from last week’s ballot is… none. There is no change. St. Francis is very close, right […]

The HHSAA has released the brackets for all three divisions in the First Hawaiian Bank/HHSAA State Football Championships in November. The full schedule is below: Division I-Open All games at Aloha Stadium Friday, Nov. 10 OIA champion vs. OIA third place, 4 p.m. Saint Louis vs. OIA runner-up, 7 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 18 Championship, 8 p.m. Division I Saturday, Nov. 4 Maui vs. Hilo at Wong Stadium, 7 p.m. St. Francis/Damien winner vs. Kauai at Vidinha Stadium, 2 p.m. Saturday, […]

When Mililani and Kahuku meet in 12 days in the OIA championship game, voters in the Honolulu Star-Advertiser Top 10 favor the Trojans. Mililani, which improved to 10-0 with a 42-6 thumping of Waianae in the OIA semifinals on Friday at Aloha Stadium, jumped Kahuku for the No. 2 spot in the latest Honolulu Star-Advertiser Top 10 released today. Six of the 10 voters picked the Trojans, who own a state-best 15-game winning streak, second ahead of Kahuku. The other […]

Kahale Huddleston scored two touchdowns to lead host Hilo to a 38-18 victory over Kealakehe in the Big Island Interscholastic Federation Division I football championship game Saturday night. The Vikings (8-1) are BIIF D-I champs for a fifth year in a row and will be preparing for the upcoming D-I (middle tier) state tournament. Ka’u (5-2) closed out its regular season in the de facto BIIF 8-man football title game with a 38-24 home victory over Pahoa on Saturday. The […]