Girls volleyball

Moanalua head coach Alan Cabanting is an upbeat guy, so it wasn’t surprising to see him smiling and talking positively about his Moanalua girls volleyball team on Wednesday night. Na Menehune — ranked No. 5 in the Honolulu Star-Advertiser’s Top 10 — had just dispatched Kailua 21-16, 21-17 and he was talking about how his team — missing three starters — had stayed focused and disciplined and how the team turns “great” when that happens. But just how great they are going to […]

‘Iolani took 17th place out of 64 teams in the Durango Fall Classic girls volleyball tournnament last weekend in Las Vegas. The Raiders, who are the No. 1 team in the Honolulu Star-Advertiser Top 10, also won the Bronze Division final with a 25-15, 25-12 victory over Clovis (Calif.) in the tournament hosted by Durango High. After pool play, the 64 teams were broken into divisions of eight teams each. The top eight teams went for the Gold Division championship; […]

By virtue of its upset of then-top-ranked Punahou on Saturday, ‘Iolani took over the No. 1 spot in the Honolulu Star-Advertier’s Top 10 volleyball poll released Monday. The Buffanblu fell to No. 2 after its 25-21, 25-20 loss to the Raiders at Punahou’s Hemmeter Fieldhouse. The volleyball poll of Hawaii media members from across the state follows, with first-place votes in parentheses, won-lost records, points accumulated in the voting, and last week’s ranking. Honolulu Star-Advertiser Volleyball Top 10 >> 1. […]

The ILH is always tough in girls volleyball, but it might have become a whole lot tougher. No. 3 Iolani, which has been looking up at Punahou and Kamehameha for the past seven years, showed what is possible this year with a championship in Kamehameha’s Hawaii Volleyball Invitational on Saturday. The Raiders, who have not made it to states since 2007, opened the championship round of the tournament with a 25-12, 25-16 sweep of Kalaheo then dropped host Kamehameha 19-25, […]

The top four teams at the Hawaii Volleyball Invitational has gone to form. No. 2 Kamehameha, No. 3 Iolani, No. 4 Moanalua and No. 6 Kahuku all made it through the gauntlet in the second day of the tournament, but will get another match tomorrow. Kamehameha was not without its problems, sweeping Kamehameha-Hawaii but splitting with Kalaheo before sweeping Moanalua. Kahuku might have been the most impressive on the second day, sweeping Iolani II, Mililani and No. 3 Iolani in […]

Kamehameha and Kahuku were the big winners in the first and fourth pools on the first day of the Hawaii Volleyball Invitational on Thursday. The Warriors swept Waimea and Iolani II while Kahuku swept two matches and split the featured clash with Kamehameha-Hawaii. The Red Raiders won the first set 25-18 but the Warriors came back to take the second 25-23. Moanalua went unbeaten in in pool three and Iolani took command in pool two with an unbeaten run including […]

For the fifth year in a row, the Kahuku girls volleyball program has a new head coach. Mounia Tachibana led the troops into Kekuhaupio Gym on the Kamehameha campus on Thursday, taking over for Lee Lamb. Lamb went to Le Jardin after leading the Red Raiders into the state quarterfinals last year. He said he enjoyed his time at Kahuku but left voluntarily to spend more time with his 2 year-old daughter rather than driving to the North Shore five […]