Football

Freshman starting quarterback McKenzie Milton of Mililani and his Central Florida teammates are bowl eligible after Saturday’s 24-3 home victory over Cincinnati. The Knights (6-4) are having an amazing turnaround season under first-year head coach Scott Frost, who is a former Oregon assistant. A year ago, Central Florida went 0-12. In the win over the Bearcats, Milton went 22-for-34 for 150 yards and a touchdown with no interceptions. For the season in seven games, Milton is 121-for-204 for 1,350 yards, […]

Six teams are left standing as we draw to a close of the 2016 high school football season with three state championship games this weekend at Aloha Stadium. Most people expected a rematch in the Open Division final between Saint Louis and Kahuku and we’ll get exactly that on Saturday night at 7. The Red Raiders (11-1), who moved up to No. 19 in the country this week, remained at No. 1 in this week’s Honolulu Star-Advertiser Top 10 receiving […]

Kapaa’s Kapena Texeira is a solider, according to Warriors football coach Philip Rapozo. So, when the Division II state football semifinal game was on the line Saturday, Texeira found himself with the ball four out of six plays on his team’s final possession. It was time to save the game, or as soldiers do, save whatever they can in the heat of battle. Rise above the fray, they say. All the Warriors (8-1) needed was to keep getting first downs […]

The semifinals in the Open Division and Division I of the First Hawaiian Bank/HHSAA Football State Championships on Friday night had little drama. All four games were decided by 16 points. Saturday it’s Division II’s turn to possibly generate some excitement with two semifinal games. The second takes place on the Big Island as BIIF champion Konawaena hosts MIL champion Lahainauna, which smoked Waipahu 52-14 last week at War Memorial Stadium. Live updates of the 7 p.m. kickoff will follow […]