Soccer

As of Tuesday at 9 p.m., the Kahuku girls soccer team did not know where it will be lodging for its trip to the early rounds of the state tournament at Konawaena High. “We booked our trip for Hilo because that is where we were told the tournament would be,” Red Raiders coach Jay Hix said Tuesday night. “We found out on Sunday that the tournament is in Kona.” Hix said the Red Raiders did not find hotels that have […]

Naia Graham is a scoring machine and if you are a doubter, you can see for yourself in the Outrigger Hotels and Resorts Boys Soccer State Championships, Feb. 18-21 at the Waipio Peninsula Soccer Park. Graham and his Kailua teammates will be going for the Division II title after winning the OIA D-II crown last week. The buzz around the Castle High field during the Surfriders’ 6-0 victory over Waipahu on Saturday, a game in which Graham scored four goals, […]

ILH champion Punahou received the top seed in the Outrigger Hotels & Resorts Girls Soccer State Championships beginning Friday. The Buffanblu are joined by OIA champion Campbell, MIL champion Baldwin and BIIF champion Konawaena as the top four seeds. Punahou will await the winner between perennial powers Kamehameha-Maui and Mililani, who play at 5 p.m. at Kamehameha. Waiakea and Pearl City face off in the other first-round match at Kamehameha, with the winner meeting Campbell for a berth in the […]

Head referees in soccer have a lot of power. They can give you red cards and yellow cards and they can call for penalty shots against you if you’ve committed a foul in the box. They also keep official scoring, which turned out to be fairly important Saturday night. While watching Mililani beat Kalani 1-0 in double overtime in the OIA title game, it appeared that the Trojans’ goal was the result of a certain player’s cross being redirected into […]

People in the stands at the Castle High field Thursday night saw Mililani’s Marc Matas score with a header on Jarad Choquette’s corner kick for a 1-0 win over Kalaheo in the OIA boys soccer semifinals. What the spectators may not have seen is the jockeying for position that went on seconds before the goal. Mililani had been pounding away all night with shot after shot on Kalaheo’s defense and goalkeeper Jack Bell, but couldn’t put it in. For two […]

You can talk about skill and talent and effort in soccer, but Ingredient X is necessary to make it all work. Take Thursday’s OIA semifinals for instance. You would have to be ignoring your surroundings if you didn’t notice it. We’re talking about passion. Let’s start with Kahuku coach Jay Hix. Well, he’s a chirper, and it doesn’t appear that you’d ever be able to say the man isn’t into coaching. Here are just some of Hix’s verbal messages to […]