Maui Sports

Maui High School set the stage for its dramatic come-from-behind victory over Kamehameha Schools Maui Friday night by switching to its no-huddle offense with 3 minutes, 34 seconds left in the game.

The Baldwin High School football team plans to be “all business” Saturday, when the 10th-ranked Bears fly to Honolulu to face sixth-ranked Saint Louis School in a non-league contest at Aloha Stadium.

As the eighth-ranked University of Hawaii Rainbow Wahine volleyball team prepares for its season-opener against Albany on Friday, former Molokai High School standout Kalei Adolpho continues to battle for a starting position at middle blocker.

UH President Greenwood claimed Jim Donovan did not lose his athletics director post because of his involvement in the botched promotional concert he initiated.

The rushing attack of the Lahainaluna Lunas dominated Kea’au in their 35-14 win over the Cougars at Wong Stadium Friday night.

A year ago, Kapaa High School opened its 2011 season with a dominating 35-0 performance over visiting Kamehameha Schools Maui. The victory set the tempo for Kapaa’s first Kauai Interscholastic Federation championship since 1989.

The University of Hawaii Board of Regents plans to discuss the reassignment of former athletic director Jim Donovan at its Aug. 22 meeting, the school announced Wednesday.

The University of Hawai’i women’s soccer team kicks off its 2012 campaign when it travels to Nevada for a pair of matches this weekend. The Rainbow Wahine will open up the season against former Western Athletic Conference rival Nevada on Friday, Aug. 17, before heading south to face UNLV on Sunday, Aug. 19.

Hawaii wrestler Clarissa Chun shared the bronze medal in the women’s 48-kilogram wrestling freestyle Wednesday, giving the US its first wrestling medal of the London Games.

Despite being the newest member of the Big West Conference, the University of Hawai’i women’s volleyball team enters the league as the 2012 preseason favorite, according to a poll of Big West coaches.

Due to academic casualties, Roosevelt High School has cancelled its scheduled preseason opener at King Kekaulike next Saturday, Aug. 11.

According to the Associated Press, former Baldwin High School standout and Oakland Athletics catcher Kurt Suzuki has been dealt to the Washington Nationals in exchange for minor-league catcher David Freitas on Friday.

The University of Hawai’i Warrior football team opened fall camp Thursday, officially kicking off new head coach Norm Chow’s first training camp in Manoa.

Former record-breaking University of Hawaii quarterback Colt Brennan’s blood-alcohol content of 0.17% was more than twice the legal limit when police arrested him in Kailua on July 25.

Maui’s Shane Victorino was traded today to the team that drafted him out of high school in 1999 — the Los Angeles Dodgers.

Maui’s Ilima Maiava evened his professional record to 2-2 Saturday by stopping Wesley Golden of Lakewood, Wash., in the second round via strikes.

The defending champion US men’s volleyball team opened Olympic play Sunday by sweeping Serbia behind Matt Anderson’s 18 points. Hawaii’s Clay Stanley added 13 points in the 25-17, 25-22, 25-21 victory at Earls Court.

Tonight’s UIC 8 Fight Card, Keeping it Real.

Thanks to a $5 million donation the University of Hawaii at Manoa is planning to build the Clarence T.C. Ching Athletics Complex, a three-story building that will provide grandstand seating for approximately 2,500 fans when completed in winter 2013.

Double-Take won the 2012 Victoria-Maui Yacht Race between Royal Vancouver Yacht Club and Lahaina Harbor last night at approximately 9 p.m.