This morning’s Star-Advertiser Girls Basketball Top 10 lists Punahou at No. 2 with a 7-1 record. WRONG! The Buffanblu are 8-0. I had the win-loss record wrong a couple of weeks ago, but corrected it. But this week (today) we had an error on our desk and bungled it again. My apologies to the team. 2. Punahou Buffanblu 7-0 (3-0 ILH) Nonconference: 4-0 ILH: 3-0 Coach: Mike Taylor W 67-23 Pearl City Thur Nov 11 Na Menehune Peek W 54-21 […]
All OIA basketball games today will begin at 2 p.m. with junior varsity, followed by varsity. This season, Saturday games have a normal start time of 10 a.m. (JV followed by varsity). However, some dates will have a 2 p.m. tip-off due to testing. Today is ACT testing day. Paul Honda, Star-Advertiser
Archbishop Mitty (Calif.) and Konawaena had dreams of reaching the ‘Iolani Classic finals, but both teams were foiled by nationally-ranked powerhouses tonight. Brea Olinda (Calif.), ranked No. 3 in the USA Today Super 25, was too balanced and big in a 69-45 runaway win over Konawaena, the top-ranked team in Hawaii. Lia Galdeira was sometimes spectacular in a 24-point performance. Memphis Central, No. 8 nationally, was clutch down the stretch in a 55-52 win over Archbishop Mitty. Frankly, I think […]
(A little extra on last night’s opening round of the ‘Iolani Classic girls basketball tourney. This piece has some bonus info on the Konawaena-Incarnate Word game and a little more on the other three contests, plus all four boxscores.) Dawnyelle Awa scored 12 of her game-high 21 points during a crucial second-half run as Konawaena rallied for a 52-45 win over Incarnate Word (Saint Louis, Mo.) last night in the opening round of the ‘Iolani Classic. Awa, a 5-foot-9 point […]
Konawaena coach Bobbie Awa talks with her team during a time out. (Photo: Paul Honda) So far, one local team has reached the semifinals: Konawaena. Farrington was zinged real good by the nation’s No. 3 team, Brea Olinda (Calif.) Konawaena 52, Incarnate Word (Missouri) 45 Memphis Central 65, Tsinghua (China) 30 Brea Olinda (Calif.) 72, Farrington 24 Archbishop Mitty 24, ‘Iolani 21, half (Added 11:06 p.m.) Archbishop Mitty (San Jose, Calif.) 50, ‘Iolani 41 Paul Honda, Star-Advertiser
To the handful of Moanalua “fans” who heckled an injured Roosevelt player Tuesday night … Auwe! To the cynical woman sitting midway up the bleachers in the midcourt area: To act all irritated because a kid was seriously in pain with leg cramps is fine … but to start complaining that he’s “faking” it? Especially after he went down a second time? Naturally, a Roosevelt fan — a mom or auntie — sitting nearby stood up and rebuked her. Then […]
Five Spartans carry a grade-point average of at least 3.7 — four have 4.0 GPAs.
. (Here’s the extended version of yesterday morning’s game between Kaiser and Moanalua.) Simon Bitanga is always a stickler for basics. That’s why, even with a 40-36 road win over Moanalua, the second-year Kaiser head coach was not entirely impressed with his Cougars squad. “We moved the ball pretty good on offense. We got the shots, but we’re still not finishing,” Bitanga said. “Defensively, we stepped it up with our big lineup, but on the offensive side, we missed some […]