It was a great, tumultuous battle between the top two teams in the First Hawaiian Bank/HHSAA Division I Football State Championships. Mililani captured its first football state crown with a wild 53-45 win.
The ILH released its all-star football teams on Sunday night as voted on by the coaches. Punahou senior Kanawai Noa, who is the first player ever with three 1,000-yard receiving seasons and the all-time career receiving leader with 3,510 yards, is the offensive player of the year. Kamehameha defensive lineman Mika Tafua and Damien linebacker Kana’I Picanco share the defensive player of the year award while Punahou’s Kale Ane is the coach of the year. ILH Offensive player of the […]
For the first time in decades, the HUB Goodwill Senior Bowl has been sidelined. The annual senior all-star game featuring football players from the ILH and OIA was not sanctioned this year by either league due to a lack of insurance. In recent seasons, the game was played at high school fields. Last year’s game, won by the East 20-7, was played at Mililani’s John Kauinana Stadium. OIA football coordinator Harold Tanaka confirmed the news. The exhibition game used to […]
This could’ve been the year Lahainaluna finally broke through to win the Division II state championship. Instead, ‘Iolani proved once again why it is the class of D-II with an utterly convincing 31-14 win on Friday in the final of the First Hawaiian Bank/HHSAA State Championships. That’s eight state championships in the last 11 seasons for coach Wendell Look and his program. The Lunas came into the final unbeaten with a dominant ground attack, but the Raiders and defensive coordinator […]
Quarterback McKenzie Milton used the word “surreal” to describe the way he felt after Mililani’s gripping 53-45 victory over Punahou in the Division I state championship game Friday night. But the game itself and the atmosphere inside Aloha Stadium was, to name-drop a rock album from the ’60s, a “Surrealistic Pillow” for fans to sit back with, relax and watch perhaps the best Hawaii high school football game ever played. For most of the season, two mighty offenses flexed their […]
Mililani’s last man standing did it all. While the Trojans suffered key injuries to right tackle Jordan Agasiva and running back Vavae Malepeai, quarterback McKenzie Milton never lost focus of the task at hand. The junior signal caller broke the Mililani single-game passing record with 421 yards on 29 of 47 passing and threw seven touchdown passes in a 53-45 win over Punahou on Friday night at Aloha Stadium to give the Trojans their first Division I state football championship. […]
First Hawaiian Bank/HHSAA Division I Football State Championships Aloha Stadium Championship game No. 1 Punahou (8-0) vs. No. 2 Mililani (12-0) First quarter PUN Series 1: Game’s first down is a third-and-9 pass to Heisman Hosoda, who is apparently healthy enough to play (leg). Buffanblu are in usual no-huddle mode, but not a true hurry-up at this time. As expected, the Buffanblu go to TE Matthew Christman (6-3, 235), who pulls in an 11-yard pass for a first down. Both […]
The top two players in the state still uncommitted square off head-to-head as Punahou OL Semisi Uluave (6-6, 315, Sr.) will try to hold off Mililani defensive tackle Rex Manu (6-2, 290) in the Division I state final. As always, this is purely for fun. Each series is scored like a boxing round with a 10-point must system. Check out the other battle featuring Punahou’s Canton Kaumatule vs. Mililani’s Jordan Agasiva. SERIES 1 Uluave starts the game at center and […]