Wrestling

It’s 1:51 p.m. Saturday at the Leilehua gym and the OIA championships girls and boys semifinals are done. Below are results of some key matches and updated brackets, team standings and finals matchups. For a live blog of the finals, click here. Girls 97 >> Allicia Mahoe (Kapolei) def. Savannah Ramos (Leilehua), fall 5:37 >> Xiaolin Mai (Roosevelt) def. Jazmyn Enriquez (Campbell), 10-5 Girls 107 >> Haylee Fujioka (Roosevelt) def. Kelsie Caminos Freitas (Leilehua), 15-0 >> Shantelle Mangrobang (Leilehua) def. […]

Early in this wrestling season, it was apparent that the 170-pound boys division was pretty solid. But the more coaches you talk to and the more time passes, the more you realize that this is a great group. And having so many good wrestlers in one division is rare. The biggest league, the OIA, has many top-notch boys in that class and there are sure to be others from the ILH, the MIL and the BIIF who will fight for […]

Moanalua’s girls are in position for their first girls team crown since Joel Kawachi led them to a share of the title with Castle in 2002. Na Menehune have put up 88 points before the championship semifinals, with Leilehua (67) and Waianae (64) trailing them. Moanalua girls still alive for individual crowns include Regine Gusilatar (102), Kira Borengasser (117), Amanda Higa (122), Alizeh Villalpando (127), Gabrielle Perez (132), Rebekah Garcia (138), Faith Joy Okubo (145), Alexis Tupuola (155) and Alana […]

The Leilehua boys wrestling team is a day away from its first OIA team title of any gender. The Mules have scored 95 points after the first day, leading Moanalua (73) and Radford (67) and defending champion Waianae (67). Joe Kila Faafiu (106), Hunter Nagatani (113), Isaac Stalcup (126), Kaena DeSantos (132), Naikoa Simao (138), Jose Jahael (145), Alii Edayan (152), Keanu Punley (170), Brett Barefoot (182), Jonah Caminos Freitas (220) and Gerri Co Jenks (285) are still in the […]

Corey Cabanban of Saint Louis might be going for history in the ILH, but what Kainalu Estrella is trying to do this weekend is even more rare. Cabanban is going for the slam in the ILH, where he will join names of fellow Crusaders like Travis Lee, Jonathan Spiker and Gerald Welch. But Estrella will be doing something that has not been done in a long, long while — win four straight MIL crowns. The accomplishment is still being researched, […]

Nanea Estrella is on her way up. The Lahainaluna sophomore cracked the national girls high school rankings for the first time this week and jumped to the top four of Hawaii Prep World’s pound-for-pound list. She leads a parade of athletes competing for the spot behind Teniya Alo, Kelani Corbett and Ashley Gooman, with the participants in the state’s biggest back-and-forth battle, Roosevelt’s Macy Higa and Tiare Ikei of Kaiser, coming up right behind her. State champion Jennie Fuamatu of […]

Teniya Alo, Kelani Corbett and Zayren Terukina are among the bigger names going for titles at the OIA wrestling championships Friday and Saturday at Leilehua. Alo, Kahuku’s two-time state champion, is No. 1 in Hawaii Prep World’s pound-for-pound girls rankings, and she is going for the league’s 138-pound title. One potential obstacle in that bracket is Waianae’s Kamakana Hernandez-Waialae, who won the OIA West on Saturday. OIA West runner-up Wynter Brown of Pearl City is another contender. Leilehua’s Corbett, No. […]

Hawaii Prep World will release its next set of pound-for-pound rankings prior to the start of the three league championships and the ILH duals coming up in the next couple of days. Meanwhile, USA Wrestling, FloWrestling and the National Wrestling Hall of Fame and Museum have teamed up to create national rankings for high school girls wrestlers. Their second batch of rankings were released on Wednesday with the schedule for the rest of the release dates: Feb. 21, Mar. 14, […]