Kahuku football

The Kahuku Red Raiders can take heart that a season in which everything seems to go wrong still results in a trip to the state semifinals. The new Open Division resulted in five losses and set the program back five years to 2013 when Reggie Torres was let go. Sterling Carvalho‘s first — and if history is any indication, only — season in charge started as well as any other Kahuku season with blowouts of Konawaena and Waianae and a […]

Most football teams have off years. Kahuku, usually, is not one of them. But this year, despite the fact that the Red Raiders made the final four of the Open Division, will go down as an off year. They finished 7-5 and ended it by getting beaten by rival Saint Louis 49-22 in the Open Division semifinals of the First Hawaiian Bank/HHSAA Football State Championships on Friday at Aloha Stadium. The future is bright on the North Shore, though. When […]

The record is 7-4 for the Kahuku Red Raiders. No, it’s 0-0. The semifinal round of the First Hawaiian Bank/HHSAA Open Division Football State Championships kick off at Aloha Stadium on Friday afternoon. Kahuku’s roller-coaster, injury-riddled season practically starts anew. Win and stay in. Lose and be eliminated. Kahuku first-year coach Sterling Carvalho chatted with Hawaii Prep World on Wednesday. HPW: How is your injury situation now, Coach, with the extra week of rest? Carvalho: The two we were hoping […]

There are only a few so-called five-star football programs in Hawaii and Kahuku is one of them. But the fourth-ranked Red Raiders’ practice field gets only one star. This week, with a mega game coming up against Saint Louis in the state Open Division semifinals on Friday at Aloha Stadium, Kahuku has spent some time on the bus traveling to Farrington and Castle, where there is artificial turf and solid white lines and numbers standing out brilliantly against the solid […]