Wrestling

Punahou’s Legend Matautia shook off some back problems to win the ILH title, and jumped into Hawaii Prep World’s boys pound-for-pound rankings in the process. Matautia, who also won at Officials, debuted at No. 9 in time for the Texaco/HHSAA State Wrestling Championships that begins Wednesday. He is the top seed at 220 pounds. Click here for all of our tournament coverage. In other boys rankings moves, Campbell’s Alize Wright picked up another spot and Ikua Tihada of Lahainaluna is […]

Below are five videos from finals of the ILH wrestling championships at Kamehameha on Thursday. The vidoes, in order, are of: >> Boys 285: Cody Bollig (Kamehameha) defeats Harry Lloyd (Damien), pin >> Boys 120: Kysen Terukina (Kamehameha) defeats Brady Hoshino (‘Iolani), 9-1 >> Boys 170: Kaysen Takenaka (‘Iolani) defeats Kainalu Huddy (Kamehameha), 5-2 >> Boys 126: Corey Cabanban (Saint Louis) defeats Casen Watanabe (Punahou), 9-3 >> Boys 220: Legend Matautia (Punahou) defeats Dominic Tominiko (Saint Louis), 12-4

Here are the brackets for the 2018 Texaco/HHSAA State Wrestling Championships released today. The OIA has seven of the 14 No. 1 seeds on the boys side with the ILH receiving six and the MIL getting one. The OIA also has seven No. 1 seeds on the girls side with the ILH only getting one (Zoe Omura of ‘Iolani at 97 pounds). The MIL has four No. 1 seeds and the BIIF two. We will have more on them later. […]

Hawaii Prep World has not been invited to the seeding meeting for the Texaco state wrestling championships this year, but we will post the brackets as soon as they are released. Until then, here is the list of state qualifiers as we know them along with major accomplishments. One interesting twist to this year’s seeding meeting will be that they are going to seed all five league champions rather than have the KIF champ jump in wherever he can. Where […]

Hawaii Prep World has not been invited to the seeding meeting for the Texaco state wrestling championships this year, but we will post the brackets as soon as they are released. Until then, here is the list of state qualifiers as we know them along with major accomplishments. The only hole we can find is in the 220 class, where the BIIF did not have a third qualifier. The spot will be filled by whichever league comes up in the […]

Final brackets for the 2018 ILH wrestling championships are below. Girls Final Results Boys Final Results Girls 97 Zoe Omura (‘Iolani) vs. Sarah Obra Nakata (Punahou) >> Notes: Obra Nakata going for a repeat title. >> Result: Omura wins 2-0. Girls 102 Kaitlin Ito (Pac-Five) vs. Madison-Joy Kogachi (Punahou) >> Notes: A close match. Ito is ahead 3-2, thanks to one takedown and an escape. In the third period. 1:20 left. >> Result: Ito holds on to win 3-2. Girls […]

Damien’s Harry Lloyd, a first-year wrestler, loves the upsets. For the second time this season, Lloyd came up with a rousing victory over a higher-seeded wrestler. On Thursday, Lloyd topped second-seeded Kayson Kekahuna of Saint Louis 3-2 in the 285-pound class semifinals at the ILH championships at Kamehameha. Kekahuna is No. 10 in Hawaii Prep World’s pound-for-pound rankings. At the Officials tournament in December, Lloyd knocked off top-seeded Chance Rodrigues of Maui in a semifinal match, but wound up losing […]