Wrestling

Baldwin’s Jahnea Miguel found a new home at 138 pounds, and it feels much like all of her others. Miguel collected her third MIL title at a third different weight, stopping Chaenel Deluna of Molokai in two minutes to become the queen at 138 pounds. She won at 129 as a freshman and 145 last year when she moved up to help the Bears win the team title. Baldwin’s girls defended their title, scoring 148 points to Lahainaluna’s 134 at […]

Lahainaluna’s Kawehi Gillcoat earned a couple of big victories in the MIL wrestling championships on Saturday at King Kekaulike. Gillcoat earned a rare individual achievement with a pin of Lanai’s Kekoa Catiel in 3 minutes, 19 seconds. He joined former teammate Kainalu Estrella, who did it last year, as just the second boy to complete the Maui slam. His second big victory has been done many times over. The Lunas won the boys championship with 226 points to Baldwin’s 215.5. […]

Moanalua’s sweep of the OIA wrestling championships on Saturday at Leilehua came with a breakthrough on the boys side. Na Menehune became the first team from the East to wins the boys title since 2009, snapping the West’s nine-year run at the top. It was the first boys title for Moanalua since 1998 while the girls won for the second straight year. “We’ve been working for a long time trying to figure out how to win this team title,” senior […]

The Kamehameha wrestling team has been on quite the run during the 2018-2019 season. After the boys’ and girls’ teams swept the Officials Tournament at Leilehua in December, both came out victorious with team titles at the ILH championships on Saturday afternoon on its home floor. To Kamehameha coach Rob Hesia, that type of success is attainable when a team is as motivated as it is talented. “We know the kids have been working hard in the wrestling room. They […]

The OIA wrestling championships are underway with a 2 p.m. start because Saturday was a test day. Results will be updated below. Action began with the girls. UPDATE: Finals have begun at 8:20 p.m. Boys and girls finals will run at the same time. We will start with Boys 126 and girls 97. BOYS 106 FINAL (1) Nicholas Cordeiro, Waianae vs. Khansith Chanthabouasith, Leilehua — Cordeiro, fall 5:07 >> Cordeiro won 5-3 in OIA West Division semifinals last week. SEMIFINALS […]

Kamehameha’s girls crowned two ILH champions before today’s ILH championship meet even started. Nohea Moniz is unopposed at 109 pounds and Alina Mauai is the new champion at 170 pounds. The Warriors have had at least one ILH champion in every year since the ILH allowed girls to compete against each other in 1998. Pac-Five girls won those two weight classes last year. It is the only program to do so, Punahou didn’t get its first league title until Jaynee […]

Day 1 of the OIA wrestling championships at Leilehua is complete. Here are the semifinal matchups that will kick off Day 2 tomorrow beginning at 11 a.m. Moanalua enjoys a nice lead in the team standings in both the girls and boys. BOYS 106 (1) Nicholas Cordeiro, Waianae vs. Isaiah Siaris, Mililani Dayne Takai, Moanalua vs. Khansith Chanthabouasith, Leilehua 113 (1) Thomas Nitta, Kalaheo vs. Keane Escaba, Moanalua Dylan Ramos, Leilehua vs. Ramos Suzuki, Kalani 120 (1) Koby Chun, Kaiser […]

The OIA championships have begun and can be found at Track Wrestling There doesn’t seem to be much drama among the best boys wrestlers, with Kaena Desantos of Leilehua (138), Noah Wusstig of Moanalua (145), Branden Pagurayan of Kapolei (152), Moanalua’s Boltyn Taam (160) and Kalaheo’s Rysan Leong (170) staying put and satisfied with being heavy favorites in their weight classes. But anything can happen, if one of those boys falls their bracket becomes chaos. The most populated boys bracket […]