Soccer

Defending state champion Punahou is the No. 1 seed as it goes for back-to-back state titles for the fourth time since 2006 in the Queen’s Medical Center/HHSAA Boys Soccer State Championships beginning Monday. Since Mililani won four in a row from 2001-04, Punahou is the only team to repeat as state champion but hasn’t won three straight during the span. The Buffanblu have won seven of the last 15 titles overall and will open their tournament next Thursday against the […]

Taylor Matsubara suffered an ACL injury right after her freshman season with the Punahou varsity girls soccer team. That injury led to serious complications that required multiple surgeries on her knee and took her out of the lineup for her sophomore and junior seasons. But the defender is back in action as a senior and loving it. She made a fine defensive play to stop a late Aiea chance on Monday in a 1-0 victory in the opening round in […]

Tausani Tavale is a family person and that’s one reason she is going to stay on Oahu after graduating from Kamehameha. The senior center back for the Warriors girls soccer team will play for Hawaii Pacific next season. “In my free time, my sisters drop off their kids and I babysit them and that’s one of the main reasons I’m staying home,” she said. “I want to be there for their growth.” She has three nephews and one niece, all […]

He’s excitable and dynamic. When Kawika Kelii is happy, he does a flip in mid-air, and he relishes a chance to celebrate with his teammates as family and Kapolei fans cheer on. The senior scored Kapolei’s fourth goal on Saturday as the Hurricanes defended their OIA boys soccer crown with a dominating 5-0 win over Kalani. But shortly after his goal, Kelii got into a tussle with a Kalani player and was red-carded. Kapolei co-head coach Ryan Lau wasn’t sure […]

A young team makes mistakes. A good team learns the lesson. During the regular season — Jan. 14 — it was mistakes that hurt Aiea in a 2-1 loss to Waipahu, which went on to finish first in the OIA West Division II standings. Na Alii came back to beat the Marauders by the same score on Saturday night to win the OIA Division II championship at Kapolei. >> CLICK HERE FOR A PHOTO GALLERY FROM THE GAME “We fixed […]

Kapolei is back in the OIA boys soccer championship game, trying to win its second title in a row. After dispatching Kalaheo 2-0 in the semifinals at home on Thursday night, the Hurricanes (11-0-1) earned the right to play Kalani on Saturday night, also at home. The Falcons (11-1-1), the OIA champs in 2018, are out to get the title they relinquished to Kapolei a year ago. “Kalani is the type of team that’s not going to beat themselves,” Hurricanes […]

ILH champion Kamehameha and OIA champion Mililani are the top two seeds in Division I of The Queen’s Medical Center/HHSAA Girls Soccer State Championships beginning Monday with four first-round games. The Warriors will attempt to defend their state crown beginning next Thursday when they play the winner between Monday’s first round-match between Kamehameha-Maui and Campbell on the KSM campus. The Sabers advanced to the state final last year before losing to Kamehameha 1-0. Mililani, which is making its 22nd consecutive […]

Since OIA girls soccer started crowning champions in 1980, Mililani has landed at the top 44 percent of the time. The Trojans wrapped up an 18th Division I title Saturday night at the Kapolei High field. A mini-version of that type of dominance continued in Division II, with Kalaheo gaining its fourth overall championship — all in the last seven years. Egloria sets up Mililani’s win Shaunee Egloria gave the Trojans some desperately needed offense after a scoreless first half […]