Leilehua football

No. 6 Hilo 19, No. 8 Leilehua 9, Final Third and 5, Miyasato to Haasenritter in the flat for a first down. Silva through the masses for 34 yards to the Leilehua 9. Time runs out before Silva can punch it over. Hilo advances to the championship game and will the ‘Iolani-Moanalua winner at Aloha Stadium next week. Leilehua three-and-out. Punt. Two plays after the fumble recovery, Miyasato fires a bullet to Kilohana Haasenritter, and the CB misses the pick […]

Baldwin’s hearty core of seniors did all it could against Leilehua’s ground-and-pound attack. The Bears trailed 14-7 at the half, but Leilehua was determined to go with blows to the solar plexus of Baldwin’s gritty defense. By the end, Leilehua had a 34-7 win in the first round of the First Hawaiian Bank/HHSAA Division I State Championships. Leilehua (10-2), the OIA runner-up, will travel again to meet Hilo next weekend. Jemell Vereen made the most of his 28 carries, running […]

Leilehua 34, Baldwin 7, FINAL Leilehua will play at Hilo next Saturday in the quarterfinal round of the D-I bracket. Baldwin closes the season 5-5. Vereen caps a fantastic night with a 7-yard TD run. That’s 174 yards on 28 carries, tough yards between the tackles most of the time. And he never seemed to tire. Gabriel Akaki with a major sack for Leilehua. Then Julyan Mebane picked off a sideline pass and returned it 85 yards for a back-breaking […]

When Baldwin hosts Leilehua tonight in the opening round of the First Hawaiian Bank/HHSAA Football State Championships in Division I, the ghosts of the past won’t linger far from the grass surface of War Memorial Stadium. In fact, the biggest menace in Baldwin’s storied history may well be upstairs in the press box. Andrew Manley was the man-child gunslinger who ended each of Baldwin’s postseasons from 2007 to ’09. “I never thought I would have a quarterback like Bryant Moniz […]

Two of the OIA’s best teams in Division I provided an instant classic in Saturday night’s championship game. No. 8 Moanalua and No. 7 Leilehua both had its opportunities to win in regulation, making it all the more agonizing for whoever would lose. It was Leilehua which fell 21-20 in double overtime. The Mules also had two prominent chances to win, but potential game-winning field goals by Konapiliahi Raymond were missed at the end of regulation and in the first […]