I know there’s sometimes a bias toward championship or winning team records. But I also know this is a vote based on individual accomplishments to some extent. Ernie Banks won the NL MVP once. Chicago was a last-place team. Go figure.

@ Viking Pride, I think you are taking this a little out of context. St. Francis’ starting center Mata Sagapolutle who made second team All-ILH and is a rebounder and rim protector hurt her MCL in the semis. I think she tried to play and only played 4-6 mins being really ineffective.

Also, Lani Neves, arguably their top player who played the entire preseason, then stopped playing when the ILH season started, left the school.

The St. Francis team that was rolling during the preseason was a drastically different team than you saw in the state final. Give that team Neves and a healthy Sagapolutele and I am confident they beat KS-Hawaii by 15-20.

Iolani – Maeda
Hilo – Kawaha
Waiakea – Imai
Campbell – Balino

I would have left 3 girls off this list.

If you watched the tournament, you probably would’ve been able to say that Waiakea is no pushover, and neither is Hilo, who got left out of the tournament. I agree Maryknoll is a great team with tons of talent and pride, but the rest of the ILH wasn’t looking that hot this season. Take for instance in D2 Saint Francis for all that hype and the Rank 5 in the pre-tournament Star-Advertiser OVERALL poll lost rather convincingly to KS-Hawaii, who could never beat the 3rd D1 BIIF team Hilo throughout the season. Don’t get me wrong ILH is a great league, but I feel this year wasn’t its year, and Molina and Coach Awa showed what it takes to perfor when it really matters.