Punahou football

It’s not Saint Louis-Kahuku, but Mililani-Punahou is as potent a game as it gets otherwise. Saturday’s showdown between the visiting Buffanblu and the host Trojans at John Kauinana Stadium promises to have all the combustible elements necessary for an epic, high-scoring, pinball-machine battle. Which, naturally, means that fans might end up with the opposite. Both defenses are equipped with athletic, smart and experienced returnees. Punahou showed its ground attack in a 40-14 win at Farrington. Mililani, back home after a […]

Punahou quarterback Hugh Brady passed 50 times in Saturday’s 40-14 victory over Farrington. A casual fan might think that the Buffanblu are all about the aerial game, but that is wrong. No. 5 Punahou has a real-deal backfield, with the nimble Vincent Terrell and the smashmouth Sitiveni Kaufusi. So while Brady was throwing for 290 yards on a somewhat erratic night in which he completed 19 of those 50 passes, Terrell and Kaufusi were lighting it up on the ground. […]

Punahou’s defensive unit wastes no lessons, to be sure. In the fifth-ranked Buffanblu’s 40-14 win over Farrington at Skippa Diaz Stadium on Saturday, the Buffanblu stuffed the box and provided tight press coverage from beginning to end. Farrington’s offense mustered seven first downs all night, including two by penalty. Linebacker Maninoa Tufono wasn’t surprised by Farrington’s power up front, but the Buffanblu defense was ready. Over and over, they read Farrington’s play-action schemes perfectly, sometimes covering pass catchers before the […]