VIDEO: Boys 106 final
By Stan Lee on March 8, 2015Corey Cabanban (Saint Louis) def. Jayson Pagurayan (Kapolei), MD: 12-3.
Corey Cabanban (Saint Louis) def. Jayson Pagurayan (Kapolei), MD: 12-3.
>> Scoreless first period. >> Second period starts with Lualemaga on bottom. She gets to her feet immediately but can’t break free and is taken back down. She’s up again and tries to run around the mat but is tripped up by Keaweehu. >> Lualemaga comes back from 4-0 down to get the pin in 26 seconds of the third round. She gets her hand raised and immediately breaks down and starts crying. That came out of nowhere. Avei Lualemaga […]
>> Single leg, Alo quickly takes the back. She tries to rip Simon over but Simon staying on her stomach. They go out of bounds. Restart with Simon on the bottom. Alo has a hold of her but Simon won’t back down. Restart at 1:15. Also with the half-nelson but Simon is keeping her from flipping her over. Alo gets one hook i with her leg and straightens her out but is now on her back trying to get Simon […]
>> Alo has been limited in practice all year after hurting her shoulder early in the season. Alo looks fine here as she quickly puts Rabara down on the mat but can’t quite finish it. Takedown and near-fall gives her five quick points. Rabara is able to get back up and out for a point however. Restart in the middle. Rabara has a hold of Alo’s foot while they stand and Alo hops on her other foot once before going […]
>> Efta scores the first takedown of the match roughly halfway into the first period. St. John with the escape and reversal to go ahead 3-2. St. John working a crossface to try and turn Efta over. 3-2 after 1. >> St. John methodically working Efta over and secures the pin with 32 seconds left in the second period. No. 1 Thomas Rosen St. John (Lahainaluna) def. No. 3 Kevin Efta (Kamehameha), pin, 3:28.
Regular readers of this site know that nobody has scored more points in a state boys basketball game than Punahou’s Ia Saipaia. But Thomas Yoshida gives us so much more. Yoshida worked up a media guide for the HHSAA that is packed full of information, research that he says was 15 years in the making. He didn’t do it alone, of course, getting help from Stacy Kaneshiro, Frank Mauz and others. The avalanche begins with Sam Johnson’s 43 points for […]
This does not make for exciting reading, but it does explain why the HHSAA seeds teams the way it does for tournaments. In the recent girls soccer tournament, and now, for the released pairings of the upcoming boys basketball tournament, there seemed to be some oddities, leaving people wondering if there was some fiddling going on. Copies of the seeding/pairings procedures are available in a coaches information packet given to school representatives at the tournament’s coaches meetings. The coaches information […]
At Mililani’s lowest point of the season, coach Ray Akiona referred the media to junior fullback Kasey Isobe. Little did Akiona know that Isobe would be the one who delivered his team to its zenith by scoring the winning goal in Saturday’s 1-0 double-overtime state championship victory over previously undefeated ‘Iolani at the Waipio Peninsula Soccer Stadium. The Trojans’ amazing run to the state title might not have been possible had it not been for a loss in a huge […]