#Maui Interscholastic League

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

It wasn’t that long ago when Maui High School was just happy to win a Maui Interscholastic League football game.

For the 10th time in 12 years, the Lunas assured themselves postseason play next month, by executing a 42-3 drubbing of Division II opponent King Kekaulike on Friday.

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.

Baldwin High School fed Kamehameha Maui’s defense a steady diet of its ground game Friday and it proved to be difficult to digest.

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.

Baldwin High School quarterback Taje Akaka-Foster ran for two touchdowns and threw for another, leading the Bears to their first Maui Interscholastic League victory of the 2014 season Friday at War Memorial Stadium.

At Lahainaluna High School, football is always a work in progress.

Upcountry rivals — King Kekaulike High School and Kamehameha Maui — settled early-season bragging rights Friday, when the public-school boys handed their head coach Kyle Sanches his second league win in three head-to-head challenges with Kamehameha Maui.

Lahainaluna High School extended its Maui Interscholastic League win streak to 11 Saturday, dominating Kamehameha Maui 48-18 at War Memorial Stadium before an estimated crowd of 2,500.

The sleeping giant from South Lono Avenue woke up Friday after 14 years of losing to Central Maui public-school rival Baldwin in Maui Interscholastic League football.

The Maui High School football team snapped a 27-game losing streak — that dated back 14 years — to Baldwin High Friday, beating the Bears 20-17 at War Memorial Stadium.

The Baldwin High School football team had no answer for the deep ball and suffered the consequences Saturday in its 2014 debut.

Fans of Lahainaluna High School football were not disappointed Friday at the official Maui Interscholastic League reveal, where the 2014 early-season model of the Lunas was unveiled at War Memorial Stadium before an estimated crowd of about 2,000.

Snapping the football from center to quarterback is not a perfect exercise. And the few miss snaps Thursday at War Memorial Stadium proved to be game-changers as Maui High rallied behind a pair of second-quarter touchdowns en route to a 48-11 victory over Kamehameha Maui.