Kahuku football

The appetizer was so very good that it seemed quite possible the main course would turn out bland. But instead, the third game of Saturday’s tripleheader at Aloha Stadium was a crazy-good show-stopper for football connoisseurs and an incredible capper for Hawaii’s football-hungry fans, who got an extra-sweet treat in the first game of the day — Lahainaluna’s 75-69 seven-overtime win over Konawaena in the D-II championship game. With a kickoff at 9:58 p.m. Saturday, and the final play happening […]

For the third year in a row, the high school football season will end with a clash between the two most storied prep football programs in the state. No. 1 Saint Louis (9-0) and its 14 Prep Bowls and four state titles faces No. 2 Kahuku (11-1), which has won eight state championships. Kahuku dominated the Crusaders, 39-14, in 2015 before Saint Louis came back to win last season’s showdown, 30-14. Looks like we will start at 9:55 p.m. Saint […]

Things were pretty relaxed before Kahuku football practice Friday afternoon. But don’t let that lack of intense emotion fool you. Behind the smiles and easy talk from the leaders on the field is an inner mechanism just waiting to go off into a controlled rage on cue tomorrow. Perhaps it will be timed to set off when the sea of red fans at Aloha Stadium do their first tomahawk chop or when the players gather for a haka, if they […]

Saturday’s Open Division championship game in the First Hawaiian Bank/HHSAA Football State Championship will pit No. 1 Saint Louis and No. 2 Kahuku in a battle between the top two teams in the Honolulu Star-Advertiser Football Top 10. Since the debut of the Star-Advertiser rankings in 2010, there have been 15 meetings between the No. 1 and No. 2 teams in the state. The No. 1 team is 9-6 in those meetings. TEAM RECORDS IN THESE GAMES: Kahuku (7-2) Saint […]