Soccer

TThe OIA may own the postseason, but the ILH has the edge in the preseason. Oahu’s private school league won the Oahu Interleague Showcase at Kapolei on Saturday, winning four matches to the OIA’s two with two ties. Last year the tournament came down to the final match, but this time the ILH clinched at least a tie when Punahou beat Kalani 2-1 and took the edge in the next-to-last match when Iolani beat Kalani 2-1. Kapolei and Mid-Pacific played […]

It’s never too early for a state championship preview. Hawaii’s traditional boys soccer powers will converge on Kapolei for the Oahu Interscholastic Soccer Showcase over the next three days. State champion Mililani leads the field, but won’t get to ease into the tournament. The Trojans open with a 7 p.m. match against Punahou on Thursday. The Trojans beat the Buffanblu 1-0 in last year’s state semifinals. Of the six goals scored by the Trojans in their run to the title […]

Kaiser’s Kai Hasegawa and Punahou’s Hi‘i Thomas will play soccer for Hawaii Pacific this fall, coach Gina Brewer announced Thursday. Hasegawa was the OIA East player of the year as a junior for the Cougars. She scored 13 goals that season, and she also played softball in high school. Thomas, a 2014 Punahou graduated, scored three goals during her junior season for the Buffanblu. She followed that up by being named captain and making the first team of the Interscholastic […]

Mililani’s Jarrett Razon is a midfielder for the 14-member U.S. Paralympic soccer national team that will play in the world championships starting Tuesday in Staffordshire, England. The tournament — the 2015 Cerebral Palsy Football Championships — runs through June 28, and the U.S. opens with a match against Venezuela on Wednesday. In 2001, Razon was Hawaii’s soccer player of the year after the Trojans, under coach Jeff Yamamoto, won the state title. Since suffering severe injuries as a staff sergeant in […]