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Playing tough matches in their league every week, helped the Kalani High School boys soccer team survive a physical quarterfinal match on Neighbor Island soil Saturday.

Kahului Harbor has staged many regattas over the years. Saturday, however, will be the first time hosting the best prep outrigger canoe paddlers in the 50th state and the 48 high school teams they represent.

Using Wednesday’s season opener as a measuring stick, fans of Maui Interscholastic League boys soccer can expect a break-neck tempo, in-your-face, attacking brand of football, not for the faint of heart.

Lahainaluna High School co-head coach Bobby Watson had a good feeling about Saturday’s game with Kamehameha Hawaii.

Four years ago, Lahainaluna High School kept six freshmen on its 44-player varsity roster.

The Kamehameha Maui varsity cheer team claimed its fourth consecutive Maui Interscholastic League Cheerleading Championship at King Kekaulike High School last Saturday.

Whoever said defense wins championships and offense wins games must have been describing the Maui Interscholastic League and its season-ending champion’s duel.

The King Kekaulike High School girls volleyball team settled whatever unfinished business it had in the Maui Interscholastic League on Friday, executing a five-set, come-from-behind victory over Kamehameha Maui in the championship tilt of the Division I tournament.

Its rare, very rare, when one champion plays another champion in a season-ending game with nothing at stake.

The unbeaten Lunas managed to shutout Baldwin 35-0 Friday at War Memorial Stadium despite playing as if it had skipped a beat before a homecoming crowd of about 3,000.

The Sabers’ defense set the tempo early and their offense delivered scores running and passing the ball en route to a 27-0 shutout of Division I foe Baldwin, before a crowd of about 2,500 at War Memorial Stadium.

The King Kekaulike High School girls volleyball team turned back Baldwin High School in four sets Tuesday to clinch the Maui Interscholastic League Division I regular-season championship and the state tournament berth that accompanies it.

If everything goes as planned, the road to the state Division II football championships will go through Lahainaluna High School — literally.

If fantasy football existed in the Maui Interscholastic League, Chase Newton would be the overwhelming favorite at quarterback for team owners looking to draft a franchise player with its first selection.

The Maui Interscholastic League’s two newest football programs gave a spirited effort Saturday afternoon at War Memorial Stadium, with Lanai High School prevailing over Kihei Charter 54-19.

The Lahainaluna High School football team revved its engine Saturday and the noise it made on the field hushed the homecoming crowd at Kamehameha Maui.

Last summer Keanan Luis decided to step up his offseason workouts. All that sweat, sore muscles, and early hours training paid dividends for the Baldwin High School football team on Friday at King Kekaulike Stadium.

For the first time in more than a decade, the Maui High School football team did not have to take a backseat to the school’s marching band.

Saturday’s football game between Lahainaluna and Maui High will best be remembered as the gift that keeps giving.

Lanai High School hosted its first prep football game since 1953 Saturday at the Lanai Community Football Field in Lanai City.