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Damien ready for ‘Iolani’s rough play this time around

By Paul Honda on October 24, 2019

Sometimes, in a land with perhaps two of the most unusual high school leagues in the nation, the best battles occur before the big dance. The immense size of the OIA, which has 23 active football programs, is matched by very few leagues nationally. The ILH, with a total of six football teams, is left in a conundrum, seeing quality programs sit during the state tournament due to basic mathematics. For the ILH, this is true every year, every season, […]

Pac-Five Coach Kip Botelho: Bowl game was ‘long shot’ anyway

By Paul Honda on October 24, 2019

Everyone is content, maybe even Pac-Five. The Wolfpack finished regular-season play 6-3 in Division II play. By all accounts, they’re a team worthy of a playoff spot. But in the era of interleague play, Pac-Five is the outlier, the only program that didn’t have a chance to qualify for postseason play because its league, the ILH, didn’t have any other D-II teams. The invigorated, interleague regular-season schedule for ILH and Oahu Interscholastic Association teams has been absorbed and embraced by […]

CLOSING THE BOOK: 2019 Pearl City Chargers

By Jerry Campany on October 23, 2019

2019 TEAM RECORD >> 3-7 overall, 3-5 OIA Division II HEAD COACH >> Robin Kami is the winningest coach in school history with a 40-31 record in seven seasons. KEY UNDERCLASSMEN IN 2019 >> WR Isaiah Cruz-Ameperosa, 5-5, 140, Jr.; WR Joshua Gleason, 5-11, 140, Jr.; DB Bishop Foumai, 5-6, 130, Fr.; DL Tristen Mckinney, 5-9, 180, Jr. PEARL CITY THROUGH THE YEARS: 1973-2019 HISTORICAL EQUIVALENT: 1993 Castle The Pearl City Chargers began the season expecting to breeze to coach […]

VOTE: Waianae’s Torii Field vs. Oklahoma’s Jelsma Stadium in USA Today Poll

By Paul Honda on October 22, 2019

The quarterfinal round of USA Today America’s Best High School Football Stadiums public poll is underway. Waianae’s Raymond Torii Field advanced out of the round of 16 last week with a lopsided win over Diamond Ranch Academy (Utah). Torii Field, the No. 3 seed, is paired with No. 6 Jelsma Stadium (Okla.). In early voting, Jelsma Stadium leads Torii Field 303-217 (59 percent to 41 percent). >> VOTE FOR RAYMOND TORII FIELD BY CLICKING HERE. Many of the sites in […]

CLOSING THE BOOK: 2019 Pac-Five Wolfpack

By Jerry Campany on October 22, 2019

2019 RECORD >> 6-3 overall, 6-3 ILH Division II HEAD COACH >> Kip Botelho is 50-102-1 in 16 seasons with the Wolfpack KEY UNDERCLASSMEN IN 2019 >> WR Angelo Coluccio, 6-1, 165, Jr.; QB Chase Hedani, 5-11, 165, Jr.; LB Dane Ishibashi, 5-7, 170, Jr.; WR Kaala Tam, 6-0, 175, Jr.; RB Micah Kong, 5-9, 170, Jr. PAC-FIVE THROUGH THE YEARS: 1973-2019 HISTORICAL EQUIVALENT: 1981 Kalaheo After being told before the season started that they would not be playing for […]

HIlo QB Kyan Miyasato’s 33 TD passes not a BIIF single-season record

By Paul Honda on October 21, 2019

UPDATE: This story is no longer accurate. For our correction on the BIIF single-season record, click here. ——— For much of Hilo’s storied history in BIIF football, titles have been drenched in rain, mud and the longest cleats available in athletic stores. This year’s unbeaten Vikings squad has been part of a divergence from the norm. Hilo quarterback Kyan Miyasato broke the league record for touchdown passes in a single season over the weekend. Miyasato’s 33 TDs surpasses the previous […]

RANKINGS: Hilo jumps to No. 5; Lahainaluna enters Top 10

By Billy Hull on October 21, 2019

After wrapping up its 13th consecutive MIL Division II championship over the weekend, Lahainaluna is back in the Honolulu Star-Advertiser Top 10. The Lunas move into a tie for 10th place in this week’s Top 10 with ‘Iolani. They were listed on just three ballots but two of them had the Lunas seventh and the third had them at No. 9. ‘Iolani (8-2) was listed ninth on two ballots and 10th on six ballots. Lahainaluna (8-1) has not been ranked […]

Road Less Travelled: How Shepherd Kekahuna, Ope Laloulu, Bubbah Aina-Chaves nearly went to Saint Louis

By Paul Honda on October 21, 2019

Another time, another place, almost another lifetime. It has only been five months, if that, since St. Francis ceased to exist as a high school. The football program, once proud and sturdy, had risen through the ranks as the biggest, possibly most athletic Division II program in the state and was unbeaten. A tiny school in Manoa Valley, ranked in the statewide Top 10, without even a home field to call its own. The final season of Saints football came […]

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