Wrestling

The Moanalua boys and girls wrestling teams swept the OIA East Division championships on Saturday, combining to crown seven champions. Elijah Asuncion (115 pounds), Logan Garcia (122), Noah Wusstig (140), Chase Wusstig (147) and Damien Agao Casabar (197) won for the Moanalua boys and Patricia Ching (157) and Richann Benito (186) won for the girls. Campbell’s boys and Pearl City’s girls won the West. It was the usual parade of champions on the OIA West side, led by Kapolei’s Jayson […]

The OIA varsity Dual Meet Championship is still a go for this weekend at Farrington despite a dearth of teams. There are only three boys teams committed, partly to allow athletes to rest of for the stretch run and partly because coaches are committed to the JV championships running at the same time at Radford. Seeding was completed Thursday night. The girls portion of the tournament looks to be competitive, with Officials champion Roosevelt leading the charge against Waianae (Fourth […]

Not a lot to see last week in the OIA, except for Campbell’s Micah Tynanes staying sharp, Jayson Pagurayan of Kapolei keeping busy while other wrestlers rest and Trison Santos of Campbell rounding into form at 126 pounds. Here are last week’s OIA results: 106: Triston Baron of Roosevelt beat Farrington’s Leonardo Nunez twice, once by fall and the other by 16-7 major decision. 113: Hunter Nagatani of Waipahu and Troy Weilbacher of Waianae matched up twice, with Nagatani winning […]

Kahuku’s Teniya Alo wrestled at 132 last week and was as dominant as ever with no obvious effects from the physical match she encountered with Radford’s Angela Peralta the week before. She never intended on staying at 145 and sources say she will wrestle at either 127 or 132, whichever provides the most competitive bracket. Alo, who wrestled at 122 last year, won Officials in December at 127. Here are all of last week’s results: 97: Allicia Mahoe of Kapolei […]

Here are your updated boys wrestling pound-for-pound rankings as of January 13. Saint Louis’ Corey Cabanban moves past ‘Iolani’s KJ Pascua for the No. 1 spot. 1. Corey Cabanban, Saint Louis 2016 state champion (113), 2015 state champion (106) 2016 ILH champion (113), 2015 ILH champion (108) 2016 Officials champion (120), 2015 Officials champion (113) It’s time for Cabanban to reach the top as a two-time state champion and undefeated wrestler this season at 10-0. He doesn’t destroy everyone, but […]