Football

Stormy conditions at Farrington’s Edward Skippa Diaz Stadium on Thursday night created the perfect playground for Kapaa’s gargantuan trench Warriors. Behind the offensive line, Kapaa ran all over Kamehameha-Maui in a 61-7 blowout win in the Division II title game of the First Hawaiian Bank/HHSAA Football State Championships. Kapaa rotated players along the offensive line, but a bulk of the action went to the primary combination of senior tackles Kawika Rogers (6-6, 300 lbs) and Santana Hernandez-Martinez (6-1, 220), senior […]

Not that the top-seeded Kapaa Warriors needed any help. Just to make sure, near perfect conditions — no rain or wind at Skippa Diaz Stadium — began to go awry at kickoff when Kapaa and Kamehameha-Maui on Thursday night just as a Kapaa video operator noticed and said, “Nice weather tonight.” By the middle of the second quarter, it was a torrential downpour, blowing east to west rather than the usual mauka-to-makai. Dropped snaps. Fumbles. Bad snaps. Almost all by […]

Mike Tresler. Ulima Afoa. Bob Wagner. The ties between the three coaches — two matched up in the Division II state final, one long retired — are part of an intriguing final week of the Hawaii high school football season. The longest ever, and one that players, coaches and fans are grateful for. That includes the Kapaa Warriors have been here before. Kamehameha-Maui’s path was often walled off by MIL dynasty Lahainaluna. The teams battle at Farrington’s Skippa Diaz Stadium […]