Girls volleyball

She’s one of just two seniors on the Aiea girls volleyball team, but Leslie Mamai-Lagafuaina embraces her role as a leader. The 6-foot-2 outside hitter blasted 21 kills as Aiea outlasted Kalani 25-14, 22-25, 25-20, 25-21 on a muggy Wednesday night at Farrington’s Richard Kitamura Fieldhouse. Aiea advanced to the quarterfinal round of the OIA Division I playoffs. Mamai-Lagafuaina added an ace and a block for Na Alii (8-3), who will play East Division top seed Moanalua on Thursday night. […]

Due to two big Interscholastic League of Honolulu Division I victories last week, Punahou moved up three spots all the way to No. 2 in the Honolulu Star-Advertiser Top 10 on Monday. The Buffanblu beat then-No. 2 ‘Iolani in four sets and also defeated then-No. 3 Maryknoll in five in the highly competitive four-team league. Punahou is just 4-6 on the season. Kamehameha (9-1) remained as a unanimous No. 1. The Warriors squeezed past Maryknoll in five sets, including a […]

The final seeding for the OIA Division I girls volleyball playoffs will be decided Monday between Radford and Campbell in the final game of the regular season. The winner will receive the fifth seed out of the West and the loser will be the sixth seed. The playoffs begin Wednesday. Moanalua and Castle are the top two seeds in the East while Kapolei and Mililani are the top two seeds in the West. All four teams have first-round byes. Here’s […]

Despite beating No. 2 ‘Iolani on the court last week, Maryknoll could not overtake the Raiders in the Honolulu Star-Advertiser Top 10 girls volleyball poll released today. The Raiders, who also lost a match to No. 1 Kamehameha last week and fell to 4-4 overall, kept their No. 2 ranking. The Spartans, who fell last week in a match to Punahou in the tough Interscholastic League of Honolulu, moved past Moanalua and into the No. 3 spot in the Top […]

Emily Dulaney loves to dish the ball, but when Moanalua needed a jolt, she delivered. The 5-foot-10 senior had eight kills, seven assists and a block as No. 3 Moanalua outlasted Castle 25-20, 21-25, 15-7 in a battle of OIA East unbeatens. Moanalua improved to 10-0, clinching first place in the regular-season standings. “Going into it, they were really focused knowing Hula (Crisostomo) our starting libero wasn’t going to be here,” Moanalua coach Alan Cabanting said. “She’s on her college […]

The Maui Interscholastic League finally got some love in this week’s Honolulu Star-Advertiser Girls Volleyball Top 10. Voters moved Kamehameha-Maui (8-0) into the list at No. 9, supplanting Hawaii Baptist (5-2), which lost to both Le Jardin and Sacred Hearts recently. Other than that change, the Top 10 remained exactly the same. Only the point totals changed. Ten points are given to a first-place vote, 9 for second, 8 for third, etc. This week’s Top 10 is below, followed by […]

Opposite Julia Fisher and outside hitter Natalie Piper chat after No. 7 Le Jardin rallied past No. 9 Hawaii Baptist in three sets on Tuesday.