Extended version ILH regular-season opener for both teams. Pac-Five quarterback Kainoa Ferreira passed for four touchdowns, including the go-ahead scoring strike to Sean Kinel. Tsubasa Brennan had 11 receptions for 144 yards and two touchdowns for the Wolfpack.
Traffic this afternoon — I left town around 1:30 p.m. — was smooth, effortless. Beautiful. From my vantage point here at the stadium, it looks like it’s moving nicely in both directions. (It had been jammed up in the other direction from the West side due to a car accident.) I’ve been looking forward to both of these ILH league-opening games for awhile. St. Francis is 2-0. The Saints are unbeaten! They have decisive wins over Keaau and Holy Trinity […]
ILH Division II Playoffs The matchup: ‘Iolani (5-4) vs. Saint Francis (1-7) Location/Time: Aloha Stadium, Saturday, 2 p.m. Head-to-head (since 1973): ‘Iolani leads 1-0 Only meeting: ‘Iolani, 35-0, Aug. 30, 2013 ‘Iolani’s offensive leaders Saint Francis’ offensive leaders Before the ‘Iolani Raiders can defend their six consecutive Division II state championships, they will go for a ridiculous 10th straight ILH title. Saint Francis is hoping to end the year with some kind of positive after having to forfeit its regular-season […]
Because of an insufficient number of healthy players, St. Francis announced that it will forfeit its game against Saint Louis scheduled for Friday at Aloha Stadium. In a statement released Tuesday by Sister Joan of Arc Souza, head of St. Francis School, the Saints were forfeiting “due to injuries sustained during the season; however, by the next scheduled game, against Iolani, we expect to have a sufficient number of our players off the injured list and able to play. “We […]
It was a game the Pac-Five football team did not want to lose. And the Wolfpack didn’t. They looked sharp last Friday in a 37-0 victory over St. Francis, a first-year ILH Division II varsity program. “We didn’t want to be the first team to lose (an ILH) game to them,” Pac-Five coach Kip Botelho said while heading to the bus outside the Aloha Stadium North end zone after the Wolfpack’s first win of the season. Some Pac-Five (a conglomeration of mostly small […]
It would be easy to Pac-Five to hang its head and lament the talent that defected when St. Francis fielded a football team this year. No need. Pac-Five coach Kip Botelho has overcome it before. The last time a school defected from Pac-Five and went out on its own — Word of Life in 2008 — it paid off with two wins against the upstarts in both years the Firebrands were in existence and the Wolf Pack’s most successful season […]
Part 1 Part 2 Part 1 has game highlights of what started out as a Saints upset in the making. But eventually, Damien’s depth and physical play took a toll. D.J. Aumua was a dual threat as a running back — three touchdowns on the day — and offensive lineman. I don’t recall seeing a player change jerseys halfway through a high school game before. See the post-game interview with the Damien senior in Part 1. Part 2 is a […]
Officially, it wasn’t a meeting. Still, Punahou coach Kale Ane was willing to discuss the issue with the Interscholastic League of Honolulu before and after his team’s game with Kamehameha over the weekend. “It was a very informal phone conversation with the football coordinator (Georges Gilbert),” Ane said on Tuesday. “It was more talking about the game so we’re aware of things.” Clearly, in a new world of rule changes to protect players, the word is safety, and that word […]