ST LOUIS STAYS UNDEFEATED

David Kawada Digital Sports Hawaii Correspondent

Sept. 29th, 2007
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>READ:     Aiea Air Attack Upsets #7 Waianae
                Kahuku Overcomes Farrington, 27-7

	The only 2 veteran quarterbacks in the ILH met up for the first time this year.  Micah Mamiya, operating the St Louis vaunted run and shoot with the �??Urban Meyer ground attack�?�, and Michael Hoke, running the new Kamehameha balanced run and passing game.  But the defensive units proved to be the dictator of field position in this physical contest with the Crusaders defeating the Warriors 14-7 at Aloha Stadium.
St. Louis Micah Mamiya last year against Kamehameha

Field position became vital as the game progressed
as both teams struggled offensively.  Penalties also proved to be
important keys as time and again the yellow flag either thwarted drives
or kept drives going for both teams.  Several passes were
incomplete due to jarring hits from the defensive backs on receivers.

Kamehameha answered back in the 2nd quarter.  A 45-yard
toss from Hoke to Carl Minns led to a 5-yard touchdown run from Truman
Chun, which tied the score at 7.

St Louis defensive linemen Geordan Hanohano and Ryan Eastman controlled
the line of scrimmage.  Eastman recorded 2 sacks and another tackle for
a loss.  Along with Ho�??oikaika Cavaco-Amoy and linebacker Steven
Donohue, the defense limited Kamehameha to only 97 yards on the
ground.  Warrior running back Brandon Dumlao led the way with 12
carries and 66 yards.

Hoke kept drives moving with the passing game as he threw for 175 yards, completing 15 of 25 attempts.  But the Crusader defense frustrated the Warriors once they got into the red zone. It wasn�??t until early in the 4th quarter that St Louis broke the tie.  Aided by a pass interference and personal foul penalties on Kamehameha, the Crusaders culminated a 55 yard drive with Austin Wakinekona�??s 4-yard run for a touchdown with 9:31 to play.

The Warriors had one last possession with 2:43
remaining starting at their own 18 yard line.  But an Eastman sack
of Hoke led to a 4th and 18 play with 1:27 to go.  As evidence of
the how this game flowed, Cavaco-Amoy sealed the victory for the
Crusaders with a sack.

These 2 teams will meet again and we could see another classic
defensive and strategic battle in the ILH.

AIEA AIR ATTACK UPSETS #7 WAIANAE, 30-20

David Kawada Digital Sports Hawaii Correspondent

>READ: Kahuku Overcomes Farrington, 27-7

On
a calm still night in Aiea Heights, Aiea quarterback Keenan Naeole
probably thought that this would be a good night to throw the
ball.  They did just that.  With one of the deepest receiving
corps in the state, Naeole and company, and a physical defensive front,
upset #7 ranked Waianae 30-20.

Seariders
regular starting quarterback Ben McQuown started the game at wide
receiver due to an arm injury.  Junior RJ Tacgere-Bailey got his
first start under center. 

�??Now this was what you call a team win,�?� said Aiea head coach Wendall
Say.  �??Give yourselves a hand.�?�

KAHUKU OVERCOMES FARRINGTON, 27-7

Bob Hogue Digital Sports Hawaii Senior Correspondent

>READ: Aiea Air Attacks Upsets 7 Waianae, 30-20
>VIEW: Kahuku vs Kalaheo HIGHLIGHTS
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     �??Thanks for the support,�?� Red Raider head
coach Reggie Torres said afterwards.  Torres felt the support of
both players and fans just a night after a community meeting in Kahuku
addressed a petition that was calling for the ouster of the second-year
head coach despite the fact that he guided the Red Raiders to a state
championship last season.
    

The Hawaii Army National Guard donated $950.00 to the Kahuku Athletic Department during half time as well as being Digital Sports Hawaii’s Major Sponsor!  Kahuku High School’s Athletic Director Joseph Whitford excepts the check.  Pictured left to right- Kingsley Ah You Digital Sports owner, Haunani Kahiapo Hawaii Army National Guard Marketing Assistant, Bob Hogue Digital Sports Hawaii Senior Correspondent and SSG Gary Cabacongan Jr. National Guard Recruiter at Kahuku High School.  Click on any of the National Guard’s ad’s to find out more information.

     Torres allowed the players to perform the popular Haka
to its own Senior Night crowd before the game and that seemed to give
energy to the entire Red Raider team.  Then, Kahuku energized its
traditionally run-oriented offense by going to the air.

     Kahuku added a late touchdown when linebacker
Coleson Pukahi intercepted a pass from the endzone by Farrington
quarterback Alefiso I�??u and returned it three yards for the final score
of the game. 

Kahuku Red Raiders (R-L)- #2 Shiloah Te’o, #16 Jray Galeai and #94 Jerome Acoba

	The Faithful Farrington GOV’S FANS!

     
Kahuku�??s win came despite an outstanding performance by
I�??u, the Governors quarterback, who completed 19 of 29 passes for 213
yards and a touchdown.  It was I�??u who completed six straight passes
right before halftime, including a 25-yard touchdown toss to Josh
Fernandez, to make it a 13-7 game at intermission.

     Such is life amongst the Red Raider Nation
where excellence and championships have almost come to be
expected.        
   

OIA WESTERN DIVISION BOWLING: SCHOFIELD BOWLING CENTER

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GIRLS DIVISION

BOYS DIVISION

Castle JV and Varsity Both Win In Two Over Kalaheo

Alan Linsky www.coach-photos.com for Digital Sports Hawaii

Latest ILH Volleyball Standings

Digital Sports Hawaii Staff

Sept. 24th, 2007
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	Last week Iolani upset nationally ranked Kamehameha in a key ILH Girls Varsity Division One First Round Game at Iolani School. Approaching the halfway mark of the season, here is a look at latest standings on all levels in ILH Volleyball. VARSITY Iolani leads the ILH Division One Standings with a 10-0 record. Kamehameha and Punahou are currently tied for second place with identical 9-1 records. Tied for fourth place with 7-3 records are Mid-Pacific Institute and Sacred Hearts Academy. Hawaii Baptist Academy has a game and a half lead over second place Word of Life Academy in the ILH Division Two Standings. University High is in third place with a 5-5 record.

BIG MATCHES THIS WEEK: Hawaii Baptist Academy will host University High. Word of Life Academy will travel to play Punahou.

BIG MATCH THIS WEEK: Co-Division leaders St. Francis and Hawaii Baptist Academy Gold will play at Punahou this weekend.

ILH Football Match-Ups

Digital Sports Hawaii Staff

	INTERMEDIATE Friday: Saint Louis (1-1) will host Damien (0-2) Crusaders are coming off a big win over Punahou last week while the Monarchs are seeking their first win of the season. Saturday: Kamehameha (1-1) will play at Punahou (0-2) The Warriors lost by a touchdown to Word of Life Academy last week. Punahou is seeking its first win of the season. Saturday: Word of Life Academy (2-0) travels to Iolani (2-0) The big match-up this weekend on the intermediate level will be played at Iolani School. The Firebrands are off to its best start and faces the only other unbeaten team in the division in Iolani. Word of Life Academy is averaging 37 points per game. The Iolani defense is allowing just 4.5 points per game. The Raiders won last year’s meeting in the final seconds to clinch the division crown.

JV:
Friday:
Kamehameha (2-1) will host Saint Louis (3-0) The Crusaders won the last
meeting a couple of weeks ago (20-7 at Aloha Stadium). A win by Saint
Louis will clinch at least a tie for the division title.

	VARSITY: Saturday: Saint Louis (1-0) vs. Kamehameha (0-1) at Aloha Stadium The Crusaders came off a three week bye and won its league opener over Punahou. Kamehameha lost its league opener to Punahou and was on bye last week. This game will be aired live on Starcomm Sports Radio – 1500 AM.

9th Annual Iolani Cross Country Invitational Run At Ford Island – Sept. 22, 2007

Alan Linsky www.coach-photos.com for Digital Sports Hawaii

	It wasn’t as hot as it could have been. But, it was very windy and dry, which meant there was a lot of sand and dust blowing around. Very tough running into that wind.      The course was mostly grass, but still pretty fast since it was about as flat as you can get.      The competition was superb. With many teams from the mainland and the OIA joining the ILH, the Iolani Invitational is one of the largest, if not the largest local meet of the year, usually with the toughest competition.

On the boys side at the varsity level, it was Palos Verdes winning with 49 points. Lakewood (84 points) took second. Local powerhouse, Leilehua, took 3rd place with Bryce Jenkins taking 3rd overall. Matt Duffy from St. Mary’s took 1st place with an excellent time of 15:58. There were 3 local boys in the top 10. Joining Bryce was Matt Nakamoto (5th – HBA), and Paul Williams (9th – Leilehua). Top 20 finishes were turned in by Dawson Vorderbruegge (Kaiser), Nathan Nakatsuka (Kamehameha), and Scott Motobu (Mid-Pacific).

The girls varsity was dominated by Redlands, who placed their top 5 at 1, 2, 8, 10 and 12 for a total of 33 points. Local school, Maryknoll, was able to place second, a fabulous showing, with Haley Abing finishing at 5th overall. St. Mary’s (CA) took 3rd. Iolani was the next local school to place at 5th.      The top local girl was Kristin Ali Keith (Mililani – 19:45), followed by Haley (5th – Maryknoll), Maile Scarpino (7th-Iolani), Jenna Wong (9th-Iolani), Claire Hann (11th-Maryknoll), Amelia Linsky (14th – Iolani), Dayna Domingo (16th-Pearl City) and Savannah Lowrie (18th-Leilehua).

The JV boys race had the second most dominant finish of all when Palos Verdes finished 1, 2, 3, 4 and 11 for 21 points. Almost a perfect score! Henry M. Gunn was second with 49, and local team Kamehameha was 3rd with 74.      Individually, Palos Verdes had the first 4 places when Daniel Meyer, Anthony Woods, Johnny Funnell and Chase Zukerman all finished in a pack. Henry M. Gunn had the next 3 places. Borys Pleskacz (Iolani) was the first local finisher at 8th place with a time of 18:08. Other local top 20 finishers included Donzel Scott (Leilehua), Dan Kaneko (Kamehameha), Matthew Dodge (Campbell), Joey Chun (Kamehameha), Grant Kaima (Kamehameha), Greg Sikes-Mitchell (Radford), Kawai Akiona (Kamehameha), and Robert Tamai (Iolani).

	The 2 mile girls open race was won by Punahou School. Punahou had the most dominant victory placing 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6. For good measure they also placed 7 and 9. Local teams also took second through fifth, St. Andrew’s Priory, Radford, Iolani, and Maryknoll.      Megan Crowley of Redlands won this race with a superb time of 14:01. But, Redlands didn’t have a scoring team so Amanda Tamanaha of St. Andrew’s actually claimed the number 1 spot for scoring purposes. Then it was 4 Punahou girls, Megan Steele, Sarah Hayashi, Brooke Laporte, and Lahaina Zoller. Other top 20 finishers were Courtney Choy (Punahou), Chelsea Chan (HBA), Carli Look (Punahou), Heidi Nicholls (HBA), Gina Galante (St. Andrew’s), Lauren Wong (Punahou), Jayann Gabrio (Punahou), Brie Adams (Maryknoll) and Nicole Valentini (St. Andrew’s).

The
Iolani boys won the intermediate division in a close battle with Rivera
Middle School, 52-54. Kamehameha and Mililani weren’t too far behind,
finishing 3rd and 4th.

The overall winner was Chris Alvarez of Rivera, with a time of 12:01. Top 20 local finishers were Kasey Chun and Justin Higa (Iolani), Kelvin Naito (Punahou), Collin Pido (Kamehameha), Zachary Carvalho (Mililani), Ashton Maynes (Moanalua), Joshua Freitas (Kamehameha), Jon Kim (HBA), Michael Diebold and Troy Esaki (Iolani), Andrew Momohara (Mililani), Shaun Bissen (Kamehameha), Harrison Oshiro (Punahou), Brad-George Gaison (Kamehameha) and Trenton Dos-Santos Tam (Punahou).      I’m going to refrain from writing about the girls intermediate race for now. There may be some changes coming on that front. Stay tuned…

For official results and more photos, please see www.usatf-hi.org

Football Photos

Jonathan Bello & Tammy McGarvey www.jonbphotography.com for Digital Sports Hawaii

Sept. 21-22, 2007

	Farrington 39 Kalaheo 18 Click on your School below to enter their Football Web Site on Digital Sports Hawaii and to view more awesome Photos, read articles and check out stats. To submit your photos, articles and video highlights contact Kingsley Ah You kayou@digitalsports.com or call 292-1780 KALAHEO MUSTANGS FARRINGTON GOVS

By Jonathan Bello          Farrington met with Kalaheo Saturday night at Roosevelt. The Mustangs could not stop the Gov’s passing game tonight. The Gov’s defense was tough with many recovered fumbles from the Mustang’s offense. Farrington was victorious on their homecoming night.

MILILANI BEATS AIEA LATE, 21-14

Bob Hogue Digital Sports Hawaii Senior Correspondent

	Wayne Coito also contributed to this story. >READ:  #1 Defeats #2: St. Louis 28- Punahou 14 >READ:  Reaiders come from behind Defeat Pac-Five 27-12! >VIDEO: Football Sports Central for awesome Videos!         Special teams and Homecoming.  Those were the difference factors Friday night as the Mililani Trojans used two huge special teams plays on Homecoming night to outlast Aiea, 21-14.
Sept. 21st, 2007

Mililani, ranked in the top five in the state in all the local high school football rankings, didn’t earn their third straight victory until the final quarter.  A 40-yard punt return by senior defensive back Cody Kilthau set up a one-yard touchdown from sophomore sensation Taz Stevenson to give the Trojans the lead for good.  Earlier, a punt block by senior Kawika Ornellas set up Mililani’s second touchdown in a game in which the Trojans needed all the encouragement they could get from a large and enthusiastic Homecoming crowd.   This is the Red West, Mililani Head Coach Darnell Arceneaux said afterwards. These guys are battle-tested.  Everyone knows their roles, their jobs.  These guys sacrifice for their team.  I feel privileged.      It was a win that almost didn’t happen for the Trojans, who improved to 5-1 overall and 3-1 in the extremely tough Red West.  Aiea dropped to 3-3 overall and 2-2 in the conference.      We made more mistakes and that cost us, said Aiea coach Wendell Say, who explained that breakdowns on special teams were especially costly, but he added, they’re just kids, we can’t really blame them.      For awhile, it looked like Na Alii, led by one of the top passing quarterbacks in the state in Keenan Naeole, might come through with a big upset.  In Colt Brennan-like fashion, Naeole carved up the Mililani secondary for 85 yards on Aiea’s first offensive possession.  The 5-foot 7-inch senior completed five of his first seven passes, capping it off with a 55-yard touchdown strike to James Buchanan, as Na Alii took an early 7-0 lead with 9:45 left in the first quarter.      Naeole finished the night 23 of 40 passing for 285 yards.  Buchanan caught four passes for 108 yards.      Mililani answered right back.  Senior quarterback Rustin Funakoshi marched his team down the field with a few short passes to Stevenson and then finished the drive himself with a 32-yard touchdown run to get the Trojans back into the game and tie the score at 7-all.  Funakoshi was 10 of 15 passing for 127 yards and also added 60 more yards rushing.      The pendulum then swung Mililani’s way again at the beginning of the second quarter.  That’s when Ornellas stormed through the Aiea offensive line to block a Na Alii punt that gave Mililani the ball on Aiea’s 31-yard line.  On the very next play, Michael Among-Serrao took the Funakoshi handoff and raced 31 yards to paydirt and a 14-7 halftime lead.       \      After a halftime filled with Homecoming festivities, Aiea seized the momentum right back.  Na Alii drove 73 yards down the field capped off by a 3-yard run by junior fullback Christian Kupau.  The extra point tied the game at 14-all with 2:21 left in the third quarter.      That’s when the game turned extremely tense and the difference became special teams for both teams.      With just over nine minutes to play in the game, a Mililani punt turned the tide.  Instead of taking a touchback, Na Alii tried to field the punt and ended up pinned near their own endzone at the three-yard line.  A few plays later, Aiea punted from its own 24-yard line.       Kilthau took advantage of the great field position and made it better.  The speedy Senior blazed his way for a 40-yard return to put the Trojans in business.

      Michael Among-Serrao, who finished the night
with 100 yards rushing on 20 carries, made a couple of key runs and put
the ball at the doorstep at the Aiea one-yard line.  That’s when
Stevenson came into the backfield.  The 6-foot 2-inch 185-pound
wide receiver/tailback, who finished with four receptions on the night
including a 14-yard key reception on the final drive, powered in the
final yard and Mililani had a tenuous 21-14 lead. 

I give credit to our O-Line, said Among-Serrao. We had a great week of practice for Homecoming.      But the game still had over four minutes left and a controversial non-call on a Special Teams play almost gave Aiea a huge chance. With only 3:14 left to play, Coach Say sent his punt team out of getting the ball back again.  Aiea was then able to use its timeouts to force the Trojans to punt with 57.4 seconds left in the game.  That’s when the controversy happened as Mililani punter Colin Lund was hit hard almost as soon as the ball left his foot.  The referees would not let their flags dictate the game’s final outcome and did not bite on the roughing penalty.

     That left 48.6 seconds left for the Na Alii
offense.  Naeole tried to get his team jump-started for a final
touchdown drive, but the Mililani defense stepped up to prevent that
from happening.  Four straight incompletions meant Mililani had
held on for a hard-fought 21-14 victory.

	I just didn’t come through, Naeole said afterwards.  Coach Say then lamented that it would not get any easier as Aiea had both Waianae and Leilehua coming up.      For Mililani, they get a well-earned rest with a bye-week next weekend, then its back to the conference wars against Campbell and Radford.      As Coach Arceneaux said, no wins come easy for anybody this season.  After all, this is the Red West.