Girls volleyball

Good turnout for the Kahuku-Farrington girls volleyball battle tonight. Varsity is about an hour or so away. JV and Blue teams play first. Kahuku is ranked No. 5 in the Star-Advertiser Top 10. Farrington has been real close, but road losses (Kalani, Roosevelt) have been untimely. I’ve seen Farrington recently and they really play well at home. This might be the best home crowd in the OIA along with Moanalua and Kahuku. Definitely among the loudest. Time to track down […]

(Today’s print edition carried a follow-up story on Punahou’s girls volleyball championship. Here’s more, the stuff that didn’t make it to print due to space limitations.) Is this the end of a dynasty at Kamehameha? “I don’t think so,” Punahou coach Peter Balding said. “I think our society looks at a dynasty in terms of wins and losses. Was Buffalo not a dynasty? They went to four straight Super Bowls and we don’t consider them a dynasty because they lost […]

(Didn’t have enough space in the print edition this morning, so here goes.) Kamehameha 3, Kamehameha-Hawaii 0 The Kapalama campus Warriors were in total control from start to finish against their sister campus from the Big Island for a 25-15, 25-13, 25-13 win in quarterfinal play of the New City Nissan/HHSAA Girls Volleyball State Championships at Farrington’s Richard Kitamura Fieldhouse. Setter Alohi Robins-Hardy fed the KSH defense a steady diet of attacks from the middle with 6-foot Pikake Laumauna (eight […]