Wrestling

Here your updated girls wrestling pound-for-pound rankings for January 12 with a brand new face at No. 1. 1. Teniya Alo, Kahuku 2016 state third (122), 2015 state champ (122), 2016 ILH champ (122), 2015 ILH champ (124), 2016 Officials champ (127), 2014 Officials champ (127), Alo made it her mission to top this list and achieved it by moving up to beat Peralta 5-4 in a tight match at Mililani. She has been her same unstoppable self this year […]

Campbell senior Micah Tynanes, who was the prep feature in today’s Honolulu Star-Advertiser, is hoping for his second straight sweep of the OIA and state wrestling titles next month. He won both in the 195-pound weight class last year and will most likely compete at 220 this year in order for Campbell to have a complete lineup. However, a 25-pound jump in weight class won’t be his toughest obstacle on the road to a repeat. As a defensive lineman on […]

It seems anyone can win at 112 pounds on any given day. Kamehameha state champion Ashley Gooman was the latest to show off her skills, going 3-0 at the OIA/ILH Round Robin at Mililani on Saturday. Gooman opened her day by pinning Pearl City’s Makana Cooper and closed it with a stoppage of Aiea’s Kristen Bareng. Her middle match of the day was the crowd-pleaser, though. With Teniya Alo of Kahuku commanding all of the attention for her 5-4 win […]

Kahuku’s Teniya Alo beat Angela Peralta of Radford 5-4 in a battle of state champions and former training partners on Saturday at Mililani. Alo, who won a state title as a freshman for Iolani before falling in the semifinals last year, beat Peralta 5-4 in the mini tournament. Peralta had the edge in the early going despite two stalling calls but lost it on a late takedown. The match took place at Peralta’s 145-pound class. Alo wrestled at 127 at […]

Of the few wrestlers who were granted three matches at the OIA/ILH Round Robin at Moanalua on Saturday, three OIA boys came through with big performances. Waianae’s Ke’ale Keliinoi shook off a loss to Pac-Five’s Joseph Fong at Officials to register three pins in three matches in the latest tournament, sticking Micah Desmot of Damien, Trysten Williams of Kapolei and Punahou’s Noa Takeyama in succession at 138 pounds. The only other boy to earn three pins was McKinley’s Daniel Ochoa, […]

If there was any doubt after Officials, the Kamehameha boys wrestling team erased it with the title at the Moanalua Duals on Friday. The Warriors, who won the team title at Officials, beat Campbell 61-19 in the duals final after taking out ILH rival Saint Louis 56-13 in the semifinals. It’s early, but that sets up the Warriors to be state contenders. Kamehameha hasn’t won states since 2013. Moanalua won the girls title after finishing fourth at Officials behind Roosevelt, […]