Wrestling

It looks like Kamehameha and Lahainaluna are going to go right down to the wire in the girls wrestling state finals today at Blaisdell Arena. The Warriors have 180.5 points to the defending champion Lunas 179.5. Both teams have six girls in the final. Kamehameha has five wrestlers on the back end (consolation), and Lahainaluna has four. ‘Iolani has maintained its large lead over Campbell in the boys team standings, 147 to 119.5. In chronological order, the Lunas’ last wrestler […]

Pearl City coach Mike Lee confirmed he’s retiring after Saturday’s state wrestling finals. When Chargers wrestler Jenny Fuamatu beat Campbell’s Caragh Morris at the OIA championships, she said she was going to try and convince Lee to stay until she graduates in two years. The effort didn’t work. “It’s time after 15 years,” Lee told Hawaii Prep World on Saturday. Lee wants to concentrate more on family, which includes his son Maui Lee, the former Pearl City wrestler now competing […]

Teniya Alo on her loss to Pearl City’s Netanya Kang in the 122-pound semifinals of the Chevron/Hawaii High School Athletic Association Wrestling Championships on Saturday at Blaisdell Arena: “I just got cleared by my doctor two weeks ago, so I just started getting into the groove of wrestling and getting back into it. With people knowing I’m injured, I don’t know how that got out there, but people just are targeting my shoulder. I’m restricted and I don’t want to […]

MMcKinley’s Risa Higa was one of the unluckiest wrestlers at the first day of the state championships at Blaisdell Arena on Friday. Or was she somehow lucky? Well, as draws go, it wasn’t so good. After pinning Kauai’s Sierra Kalama in the first round at 132 pounds, Higa got to go up against one of the best wrestlers the state of Hawaii has seen — Kamehameha’s Teshya Alo, who had a first-round bye. Alo’s credentials are awesome. She is a […]