Football

First Hawaiian Bank/HHSAA State Football Championships Leilehua at Kealakehe KEALAKEHE, 9:36 p.m. Reece Acohido’s interception in the red zone ends Kealakehe’s final drive with 29 seconds left. Leilehua escapes with a 35-24 win. Update 9:20 p.m. — Tim Momiyama’s 33-yard field goal has increased Leilehua’s lead to 32-24 with 6:14 to go. This is a good one. Update 8:53 p.m. — John Kamoku leaped over from the 1-yard line to bring Kealakehe within 22-17 with 4:37 to go in the third. […]

                      . . . 12:35 a.m. Penalties: Farrington 12 for 132 yards, Kahuku 13 for 160 yards. Billy Hull has the penalty yardage for the OIA White final, which was also a festival of yellow flags. I never saw so many illegal blocks (Pearl City) and illegal procedures (Waipahu) in my . . . well, maybe in a few years, not the entire 21-plus years I’ve been covering preps. 11:18 […]

Waipahu (7-3, 6-2) vs. Pearl City (9-1, 9-0) On paper: Two high-octane, run-and-shoot offenses could combine for 21 points in a matter of minutes, right? When these two teams met a month ago, Pearl City escaped with a 13-8 win. The Chargers’ prolific attack — 335 yards per game — managed to gain just 203 yards against Waipahu’s defensive wall. The good news that night at Bino Neves Stadium was a Chargers’ defense that picked off Waipahu slinger Drake Yoshioka twice and […]

. . .. . ..                           . Campbell (8-2, 6-2) at Leilehua (8-1-1, 7-1) On paper: Their previous meeting resulted in a 32-13 win for the Mules, limiting Campbell to 88 passing yards. The rematch will again be at Hugh Yoshida Stadium. Unlike years past, when November brought torrential rain and lakes of mud to the field, the synthetic turf will permit both teams to use their four-wide offenses […]

(This is the rest of the story I wrote last night for today’s game report. Space limitations and I usually overwrite, but thankfully, there’s our blog here.) Another Kamehameha three-and-out led to a 37-yard field goal by Kaimi Fairbairn. The drive was set up by Steven Lakalaka’s 51-yard jaunt out of a Wildcat formation, and Punahou led 17-7 with 2:50 to go in the half. Kamehameha’s offense finally regained some mojo in the final 3 minutes before the break. Thirty […]

10:34 p.m. Woo! What a game. A truly great championship game. Hat’s off to both teams. 9:41 p.m.: Punahou stops Kamehameha inside the 2 on back-to-back quarterback sneaks, time expires. Punahou wins 24-17. 9:39 p.m. Pass complete, Stevens to Bush-Loo, first down Kamehameha at the Punahou 2. Third time they tried that play-action, and Stevens finally completed it. Time out, Kamehameha, final time out with 0:29 left. 9:35 p.m. First-down run by Barretto, first down Kamehameha at the Punahou 12-yard line, […]