Waialua football

The Bulldogs are back. Waialua lost its football finale to Radford, 35-0, on Friday, but still qualified for the Oahu Interscholastic Association Division II playoffs when Nanakuli defeated Kalani 22-6 on Saturday. Both the Bulldogs (5-4 overall) and the Falcons finished at 4-4 in the league, but Waialua won the tiebreaker for the fourth seed due to a 21-16 victory in the head-to-head matchup with Kalani on Aug. 14. Wow, talk about early-season games meaning something! And now the fourth-seeded […]

After Waialua improved to 3-0 for the first time since 1993, Bulldogs head coach Lincoln Barit was understandably a bit emotional. Barit’s team overcame a 12-point deficit against Pearl City on Saturday to take a 14-12 lead before the game was suspended due to lightning early in the fourth quarter. When play resumed on Monday, the Bulldogs extended the lead only to have Pearl City charge back to jump ahead 23-20 with 4:36 left. Waialua quarterback Royce Tashiro then led […]

There’s good news and bad news for the Waialua football team. We’ll start with the bad: the Bulldogs will not have a junior varsity team this season due to a lack of players. But, all is not lost. The Waialua varsity team (1-0) has a healthy 53 players on the roster going into Friday’s 6 p.m. Oahu Intersholastic Association Division II matchup at home against Kalani. Varsity head coach Lincoln Barit said Thursday night that he wishes the Bulldogs could […]

Waialua will not be fielding a junior varsity football team this season, and all of its scheduled games have been forfeited, Oahu Interscholastic Association football coordinator Harold Tanaka told Hawaii Prep World on Thursday. Tanaka did not give a reason for the forfeits, but judging by Waialua’s low participation numbers for varsity and JV football, it’s likely due to a lack of numbers. Bulldogs varsity head coach Lincoln Barit and athletic director Bryce Kaneshiro could not be reached for comment […]