Soccer

These days when you go to a high school sporting event, you’ll hear the announcer say something like, “Let the players play, the coaches coach and the officials officiate.” And now, let the rivals be friends. It’s always been common to see players on competing Hawaii teams act friendly toward one another, or even be good friends with players on other teams. Well, sportsmanship was taken to a new level in the boys and girls soccer state championships recently. In […]

Mililani’s Jeron Cunningham and Mid-Pacific’s Stirling Aponte were chosen as the most outstanding Division I and D-II players in the Outrigger Resorts/HHSAA Boys Soccer State Championships on Saturday night after the two championship games at Waipio Peninsula Soccer Stadium. The all-tournament teams, selected by the media and the HHSAA, are below. Division I >> Christopher Brubaker, Punahou >> Max Ching, ‘Iolani >> Jarad Choquette, Mililani >> Jamin Fonseca, Mililani >> Bennett Ho, Punahou >> Spencer Ho, ‘Iolani >> Isaiah Kuloloia, […]

The second straight state Division II championship-match victory was sort of a formality for Brandon Ho. Asking his girlfriend to the prom was only a little riskier for the Mid-Pacific defender. It wasn’t like she was going to say no, but, hey, you never know, maybe she wouldn’t like the idea of him making a spectacle of it. No worries in the long run, however. Ho and Tiana Young-Mauchly, who have been dating for about 10 months, will be going […]

Picture the Mililani boys soccer brain trust sitting down together, trying to figure out a way to score a goal. In one sense, it sounds funny because the Trojans usually don’t have problems scoring goals. But, in another sense, it’s as serious as can be. Everything was on the line on Saturday as the Trojans went up against fierce OIA rival Kalani in the Division I state final. The last time the two teams met, Mililani was fortunate to score […]

By now, everybody in the Hawaii soccer world knows that Kalani senior goalkeeper Michael Stafford was the man who kept the Falcons alive on Friday night. His heroics, with three saves in a seven-round penalty kicks session, allowed Kalani to earn a 1-0 (5-4 on PKs) victory to move into Saturday night’s Division I boys soccer state championship semifinals against Mililani. But what some people who did not attend the game or watch it on OC 16 might not know […]

. . Need first name of Blair kid for 1983 Punahou. 1974: Iolani 4, McKinley 1 Goal scorers — Iol: own goal (2), Alan Soenda, Kalei Kini. McK: Khamtan Tanchaleun. 1975: Iolani 3, McKinley 1 Goal scorers — Iol: Angus McKibbon, Ricky Miller (2). McK: Phi Boun Rattanasamay. 1976: Punahou 2, McKinley 0 Goal scorers — Pun: Malcolm Yee, Lyman Abbott. 1977: Punahou 2, McKinley 1 Goal scorers — Pun: Billy Bugbee, Henry Fordham. McK: Chul Sun Park. 1978: McKinley […]