Girls basketball

The 2017 OIA girls basketball playoffs begin Friday with six games — four in Division I and two in Division II. Kaimuki (9-1) earned the tiebreaker over Farrington (9-1) for the No. 1 seed out of the East due to its head-to-head win while Leilehua (9-1) is the top team out of the West finishing one game ahead of three 8-2 teams — Mililani, Nanakuli and Radford. The Trojans earned the second first-round bye out of that group. Kalani (7-3) is the […]

They are who they thought they were. The rest of the OIA, and the state, knows the Kaimuki Bulldogs now. A few months ago, nobody outside of longtime girls basketball coach Mona Fa‘asoa, her staff, players and the most tightly-knit insiders knew what this season’s Bulldogs were capable of. Oh, there was hope. Victoria Kintz, the senior returnee with eye-popping handles, scoring ability and a basketball IQ among the elite. (And a scholarship to Holy Names University.) A few more […]

To the unsuspecting spectator entering Clarence T.C. Ching Gymnasium at Maryknoll School on Thursday evening, a showdown of immense magnitude was in the making. In reality, not really. Fourth-ranked ‘Iolani had nothing to gain or lose in the Interscholastic League of Honolulu girls basketball standings. Top-ranked Maryknoll had plenty of incentive: win and clinch at least a tie for the regular-season title — which brings an automatic state-tourney berth. The end result: Maryknoll turned a two-point game in the third […]

It wasn’t so long ago, really, when Latoya Wily was Kahuku’s unstoppable force in the paint. At 6 feet tall with plenty of muscle, the nimble-footed Wily was relentless on both ends of the court. Great footwork in the low post, always working the angles and using her mind as much as her athleticism to get position and hit buckets, draw fouls and make life miserable for defenders. In the spring of 2004 — back when girls basketball was played […]

The Star-Advertiser Girls Basketball Top 10 came out Monday, always another opportunity to examine and nit-pick over something that has absolutely no bearing on anything substantial. Anything close? No, just a couple of arguments: Konawaena should not move up ahead of ‘Iolani and Kamehameha by default, and why I still have Kamehameha-Maui on my ballot. Here’s how coaches and media voted. Star-Advertiser Top 10 Jan. 9, 2016 1. Maryknoll (11) 110 2. Konawaena 97 3. Lahainaluna 82 4. ‘Iolani 76 […]

Just days after the Pac-12 Conference named her freshman of the week, former Konawaena standout Chanelle Molina took it one giant step further. The three-time all-state player of the year scored 33 points to power Washington State over No. 9 UCLA, 82-73, in Pullman, Wash. Molina tied the freshman scoring mark set by another former Konawaena Wildcat, Lia Galdeira. The victory on Friday night quickly made headlines near and far for Molina and the Cougars, from the Big Island’s Hawaii […]