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Gallery: ILH girls wrestling champions 2023
By Paul Honda on February 23, 2023
Farias Senior Classic, Mufi Hannemann Jamboree this weekend
By Paul Honda on February 17, 2023High school post-season exhibition basketball games are loaded up for this President’s Day weekend. On Saturday, the Damien Farias Senior Basketball Classic will tip off at 7 p.m. Seniors from across the state fill out the Team Red and Team Blue rosters. Admission is $5. Coached by Dan Hale (Saint Louis) and Brandon Dumlao (Moanalua), Team Red is loaded with scoring guards Mizah Carreira and Malik Johnson of Campbell, Zelston Militante (Leilehua), Skylar Miyasato (Moanalua) and Justin Yap (Maryknoll), and […]
Grit is golden for state-tournament semifinalists
By Paul Honda on February 9, 2023In a season of vast parity and a plethora of very young teams, scar tissue is becoming the difference maker. Coming into the Division I and II brackets in the Heide & Cook/HHSAA Boys Basketball State Championships, only three teams that qualified had perfect records during their regular seasons. Those teams, Mililani and Kailua, are now out of the running. So is Seabury Hall, which was 10-0 in MIL D-II. Mililani went 10-0 in the OIA West, then reached the […]
Grit and growth: Moanalua’s upset win over Mililani
By Paul Honda on February 7, 2023A couple of late-season losses did nothing to dampen Moanalua’s confidence. Na Menehune was the sixth-place team in the OIA playoffs, the final qualifier for the state tournament, and made their opportunity pay off with a stunning 60-56 win over Mililani on Monday night. First, here’s what in store for Wednesday. So many good games, so little time. Wednesday, Feb. 8 HHSAA Quarterfinals At Moanalua Moanalua (16-10) vs. Kamehameha-Hawaii (13-8), 5 p.m. Kailua (22-5) vs. Saint Louis (24-7), 7 p.m. […]
Kamehameha completes girls basketball D-I state-tourney field
By Paul Honda on January 26, 2023Was it the upset of the. season? Perhaps. No. 8 Kamehameha’s 44-39 victory over No. 2 Maryknoll on Wednesday night sealed a state-tournament berth for the Warriors. Doing it on the Spartans’ court, even more stunning. But a surprise? Coach Pua Straight and staff have been diligently working on their young roster since day one. All the offseason workouts accelerated their growth, but it wasn’t easy to find tangible results. Preseason wins over Konawaena and Waiakea were tempered by losses […]
All that drama: the ILH’s basketball tiebreaker maze
By Paul Honda on January 25, 2023The tiebreakers and playoff formats of the ILH and OIA are so different. They do serve their purposes, of course. In the OIA, where there is no automatic state berth for regular-season supremacy, it all comes down the the playoffs. For years now, the top two teams in the OIA West and East have earned first-round byes, homecourt advantage and the the edge in fresh legs, all because opening-round teams have only 24 hours to rest before the quarterfinal round. […]
Montverde’s Dravyn Gibbs-Lawhorn wins ‘Iolani Classic dunk title
By Paul Honda on December 20, 2022Even in borrowed shoes, Montverde guard Dravyn Gibbs-Lawhorn has no problem with extraterrestrial flight. The 6-foot senior wowed the audience on Monday night with a series of dunks, including one over a teammate and four keiki fans, to win the slam dunk contest at the ‘Iolani Prep Classic. He did it with shoes that were borrowed by a teammate from another teammate. The team, ranked No. 1 in the nation by MaxPreps, had already been on Oahu for a few […]