Maui Sports

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.

The 2014 Maui Interscholastic League football season kicks off tonight with Maui High and Kamehameha Maui doing battle at War Memorial Stadium.

All tickets for the 2014 EA Sports Maui Invitational will go on sale today via the tournament’s website, beginning at 9 a.m. (HST).

The Pac-Five Wolfpack exploded for 27 unanswered points in the first half en route to a 54-37 non-league win Saturday at King Kekaulike High School.

Maui High School kicked off the high school football season on the Valley Isle Friday with a 28-7 victory over visiting Kealakehe High School.

Joel Rand, a financial advisor from Wailea used a pitching wedge on the 12th hole, par 3 to hit the ball 135 yards for the sinker, according to a UHMC announcement.

Maui’s Kurt Suzuki of the Minnesota Twins was named to the American League All-Star team for the first time in his seven-year career today.

The county of Maui issued a reminder that War Memorial Stadium is closed for the first half of this month due to construction work. The public will not be able to access the stadium through July 15, 2014.

Hundreds of soccer fans attended a screening of the USA vs Belgium World Cup game, broadcast live on a 47- by 22-foot big-screen at the Castle Theater of the Maui Arts & Cultural Center on Tuesday.

The events stadium being built at Lahainaluna High School in West Maui will be named in honor of Sue D. Cooley, its primary benefactor and part-time Maui resident, who contributed $7.5 million to the project.

The Maui Arts & Cultural Center will host a live broadcast of the USA vs Belgium World Cup game, scheduled to take place at 10 a.m. on Tuesday, July 1, 2014.

Five of Maui’s cowboys and cowgirls earned a spot on the National Rodeo Team, after securing six championship buckles at the Hawaiʻi High School Rodeo Association State Finals held at the Parker Ranch Arena in Waimea on Hawaiʻi Island earlier this month.

Maui’s Nā Pua Kō girls fast-pitch softball team from Maui took home the All Star Tournaments 12-and-Under Silver Division title at the Champions 2014 USSSA PRIDE Tournament held over the weekend in Sacramento, California.

Alexandra Pardico of Maui High School and Xrystina Bicoy of Molokaʻi High were among a list of only five students that were honored as distinguished scholarship recipients. Maui High School Student Trent Hori rounded out the list of students recognized during the ceremony as a recipient of a Maui Interscholastic League Scholarship.

The sport of Olympic Weightlifting is making a comeback, thanks in part to CrossFit, and the new college opportunities athletes on Maui are enjoying.

Maui’s Nā Pua Kō girls fast-pitch softball team from Maui took home the state title over the weekend during the Amateur Softball Association Hawaiʻi State 12 and Under Championships held on Oʻahu.

“They ended up with 21 that either signed letters of intent or some sort of agreement to play and receive some kind of aid to play and go to school in the fall. It seemed like a pretty astonishing number, since the class size is only 120.”

The Seabury Hall girls track team had a dream, and it came true Saturday, when the Spartans dominated the 2014 Island Movers Hawaii Track & Field Championships before a live television audience on OC16.

The Seabury Hall girls track team set the table in Friday’s trials in hopes of serving up a historic victory tonight at the 2014 Island Movers Hawaii State Track & Field Championships.

The Seabury Hall girls track team — and arguably the state’s best 1-2 tandem in the history of track and field in Hawaii — capped the 2014 Maui Interscholastic League season with a bang Saturday at the Yamamoto Track & Field Facility.