Soccer

When a professional golfer has an unspectacular day, with mostly pars, maybe a birdie or two and a bogey or two, writers can be quick to call it a “ho-hum” round. Those words are perfect for Tuesday’s ILH girls soccer championship match. Kamehameha won the title after a scoreless regulation and overtime by outshooting ‘Iolani 2-1 on penalty kicks. Even the PKs were lackluster. Of nine shots, only three went in the goal. Three were saved and three went wide. […]

Aiea ran an almost unthinkable gauntlet to hoist the OIA girls soccer championship trophy. Na Alii (12-2) finished their run to the title Saturday night with a 1-0 upset of Pearl City at Kaiser Stadium. It was the fourth straight win in the tournament for Aiea, which had dispatched Kahuku and Kaiser before going into the semifinals Thursday as a decided underdog against 17-time league champion Mililani and coming away with a 1-0 win. Team defense got it done that […]

Waianae was charging hard for the victory, but didn’t have quite enough for a first-ever OIA Division II girls soccer championship. Instead, Kalaheo took the crown for the third time in the last six seasons with a 2-1 victory over the Seariders on Saturday night at Kaiser Stadium. Now, the Mustangs (4-7) will try to do something they’ve never done before — win a state D-II championship. “It’s unbelieveable that we’ve come this far and are going into states,” said […]

Pearl City won the match, but may have lost senior star Sunshine Fontes. Fontes hurt her knee while scoring a goal in the first half of the Chargers’ 3-2 (3-0 PKs) OIA girls soccer semifinal victory over Moanalua iat Kaiser Stadium on Thursday night. Coach Frank Baumholtz III thinks Fontes may have injured her medial collateral ligament, and if that’s the case, the outlook is not good for her returning to action as the season heads to a close. “I […]

Aiea denied Mililani in its bid for a fourth straight OIA girls soccer championship Thursday night. By playing tenacious team defense, Na Alii survived for a 1-0 victory at Kaiser Stadium. The victory was aided by the wind, which helped slow down the Trojans’ potent attack. Now, Aiea (11-2) will go for its third OIA championship on Saturday at Kaiser High against Pearl City. Na Alii previously took league crowns in 1999 and 2005, under then coach Gordon Matsuoka. “They […]

Mililani and Kaiser earned the top seeds in the OIA boys soccer playoffs that begin Monday. The Trojans (10-0), who last won a league crown in 2015, extended their regular-season unbeaten streak to 44 matches this season dating back to January 2015. Mililani will open its playoffs hosting a quarterfinal game next Tuesday at 7 p.m. against the winner between Kailua and Radford. Kaiser (9-1) earned the tiebreaker over Kalani (9-1) for the top seed out of the East after […]

OIA West No. 1 seed Mililani will attempt to win its fourth consecutive Division I league crown in girls soccer when the playoffs begin Monday with four first-round games. The Trojans (8-0-2) earned a first-round bye and will host the winner between Roosevelt and Campbell on Tuesday. Moanalua (8-0-1) earned the No. 1 seed out of the East and will host the winner between Kailua and Wapiahu on Tuesday. The semifinals are set for Thursday at Kaiser and the championship […]

Winning two games in a row against your rival in ILH girls soccer is mighty difficult, so that’s why ‘Iolani’s 1-0 victory over Kamehameha on Friday at Kunuiakea Stadium is not a surprise. On Dec. 5 in the first matchup between the two teams, the Warriors escaped with a 1-0 win over the defending state champion Raiders. Now, both are at 6-1 and continue the fight for the first-round championship and a state tournament berth that goes with it. The […]