Football

The 2015 Hawaii high school football season was quite a ride. When the final Honolulu Star-Advertiser Top 10 rankings come out on Monday, Kahuku will surely end the season No. 1, meaning four different teams at some point held the top spot this season. That’s never happened in the history of the HSA poll. The season marked the end of the road for Mililani’s threesome of McKenzie Milton, Vavae Malepeai and Kalakaua Timoteo, who will all finish in the top […]

Linebacker Jonathan Bilyeu took his ballhawking skills to another level on Friday night, recovering two fumbles and intercepting a pass in Kapaa’s 30-16 Division II football state final loss to Radford on Friday at Aloha Stadium. He made life agonizingly difficult for the Rams (13-0) with those three plays in the first half that helped the Warriors build leads of 10-0 and 16-7. If the Warriors had pulled it out, they would have become only the second team from the […]

Another prep football season is in the books with Kahuku and Radford capturing the Division I and Division II state championships Friday night. Defense was the common theme in the first OIA sweep since 2003 — when Kahuku and Aiea paired titles in the inaugural year of Division II — with the Red Raiders and Rams delivering stifling performances to punctuate their title seasons. Personally, the privilege of covering high school football weekends from early August to late November provided […]