#Warriors

Saturday night’s second-place finish felt different than 2007, 2012 or 2014 when Seabury Hall was also the Division II state runner-up; the Spartans fought back from two sets down to force a fifth set that came down to the wire before bowing to Kapa’a of the Kauai Interscholastic Federation.

Archer Fabrao will participate in her fourth state tournament that runs Oct. 27 and Oct. 30-Nov. 1 after the Warriors clinched their 21st consecutive state tournament appearance with a 25-12. 25-20, 26-24 win over King Kekaulike on Tuesday. 

The Warriors took another impressive step towards showing everyone who’s boss in Maui high school football with a 49-28 win over Baldwin on Friday night at Kanai’aupuni Stadium.

The Maui Interscholastic League will field nine teams in the first season for girls flag football. The state is set to have 58 teams compete in the sport this spring.

“It feels awesome. I feel exhilarated. I feel happy for our kids. These are great young men that we get to coach,” Kamehameha Maui head coach Ulima Afoa said.

The Kamehameha Schools Maui football team beat Roosevelt 60-26 on Saturday to advance to the Division II state championship game against Kaiser for on Nov. 30 at Mililani High School on Oʻahu.

The meeting between the Warriors’ Karsyn Pupunu and Cougars’ Kapena Gushiken will mark the first time that two former Kamehameha Maui teammates have played against each other in a game at the highest level of competition in college football.

Kamehameha Maui senior safety/wide receiver Nohi Casco, a threat on both sides of the ball, said the Warriors are gunning to end the Lunas’ eight-year MIL victory run.

Making effective use of its timeouts, the King Kekaulike High School girls volleyball team erased a pair deficits in the closing stages of sets No. 2 and No. 4 en route to preserving a perfect 14-0 Maui interscholastic League record.

Maui High School used its speed on defense to dial up a solid 24-7 victory over Kamehameha Maui Saturday at War Memorial Stadium.

An estimated crowd of 350 watched Na Aliis bounce back from a one-set deficit against cross-town rival Kamehameha Schools Maui en route to a four-set victory, 20-25, 25-16, 25-19, 25-16.

Kapaa High School’s Kurt Napoleon threw for one touchdown and ran for another to lead the visiting Warriors of Garden Isle over Lahainaluna on Saturday, 21-0.

Kamehameha Schools Kapalama receiver Kia’i Ah Mook Sang caught a pair of third-quarter touchdowns to lead the Warriors to a 38-14 victory over Baldwin High School on Saturday.

If it was a golf shot, it would have been a hole-in-one. That’s how pretty Skylar Littlefield’s game-winning, 40-yard free-kick goal turned out to be Friday at War Memorial Stadium.

University of Hawaii has hired Nick Rolovich, a former quarterback for the Warriors, as its new head football coach, the school announced today.

It took a homecoming celebration and a career-best rushing night from its go-to guy Soane Vaohea for Maui High School to snap a two-game losing streak.

The Baldwin High School football team won its third straight game Friday, routing Kamehameha Maui 42-19 at Kanaiaupuni Stadium.

It was a game all of Upcountry Maui could be proud of. In the end, however, Kamehameha Schools Maui earned bragging rights to the unofficial Upcountry title over cross-town rival King Kekaulike, rallying behind a pair of touchdown passes late in the game to squeeze out a 20-12 victory.

The last time Dylan Delatori played quarterback was his freshman season three years ago. On Friday, the Lahainaluna High School senior played the position with the poise and precision of a veteran, throwing a pair of touchdown passes to Ronnie Espiritu, including the game-winner late in the fourth quarter to beat Kamehameha Maui, 20-14, at Kanaiaupuni Stadium.

In front a nation of pink, and fused by the spirit of homecoming, the Kamehameha Schools Maui girls volleyball team answered its own challenge Friday, loosening the Division I strangle-hold held by cross-town rival King Kekaulike last year.