Wrestling

One Hawaii Prep World top-10 pound-for-pound wrestler was injured and had to leave his match for medical attention Thursday at the Moanalua duals. Another top-10 pound-for-pound wrestler is just getting back to the mat while still nursing an injury. The first one, No. 3 Makoa Cooper of Pearl City, the reigning state 152-pound champion who is now wrestling at 160, hurt his knee. Chargers coach Todd Los Banos said initial reports of Cooper’s condition are good and that it’s likely […]

Lahainaluna’s Kainalu Estrella jumped into the fourth spot of the latest pound-for-pound rankings, making him the highest ranked wrestler from Maui and best without a state title. Estrella, who has reached the final the last two years only to lose both times, ran through his bracket at Officials after challenging No. 2 Zayren Terukina on Maui only to fall. He takes the spot previously occupied by Kamehameha’s Kysen Terukina, who had his match well in hand before getting caught by […]

Pearl City’s Jennie Fuamatu tested herself against the best and walked away better for it. Fuamatu, the reigning champion at 186 pounds, entered Kelani Corbett‘s realm at 168 and reached the final before falling 11-3 to the state’s No. 2-ranked wrestler. The match was closer than the score indicated, but the Mules’ pure wrestling skills and flawless game plan proved to be too much. Despite the loss, the Charger moves up a spot to No. 5 in the latest pound-for-pound […]

Kahuku wrestler Teniya Alo has two main goals — make the U.S. Olympic wrestling team and beat her sister, Teshya. Teniya missed the Officials tournament with an ankle injury but is still regarded as the No. 1 girls wrestling pound-for-pound wrestler by Hawaii Prep World. She was featured in today’s Honolulu Star-Advertiser, which you can read here. Here are our latest pound-for-pound rankings. Teniya Alo Kahuku girls wrestling >> Sport: Wrestling and judo >> Class: Senior >> Weight class: 138 (or […]

Baldwin has won the girls title and host Leilehua has won the boys title at the Officials tournament that ended tonight. Here are the boys final results and boys team standings. Here are the girls final results and girls team standings. Here was our live blog of the finals from the event: The boys finals of the Officials tournament at Leilehua will be starting with the 106-pound match and go directly to 138 and on up through the weight classes […]

The boys and girls semifinals at the Officials tournament have finished at Leilehua High gym. There was a huge upset at 113 pounds with defending state champion and No. 4 pound-for-pound Kysen Terukina getting pinned by Baldwin freshman Kahilihiwa Joy. Joy went on to pin his opponent, unseeded Jude Michael Talana, in the final in 35 seconds. That match was held early before all of the other finals matches because Joy and had to catch a plane back to Maui. […]

Loud cheers erupted at the Leilehua gym as Baldwin freshman Kahilihiwa Joy pinned Kamehameha’s Kysen Terukina in the semifinals of the Officials tournament. Joy was down 5-0 when he pulled off the pin of Terukina, who won the state championship at 113 pounds last season and is ranked No. 4 in Hawaii Prep World’s pound-for-pound rankings. One of Joy’s assistants told the freshman soon after the match that it wasn’t a fluke. After the momentous win, a crowd of fans […]