Maui Sports

At the end of the day, Garrett Okamura played with the confidence of a professional who knew the course like that back of his hand.

Ten Maui boys enjoyed a “priceless moment” Saturday in Laie, stunning host team Kahuku 22-20 in the title tilt of the school’s first 7 on 7 passing tournament.

The King Kekaulike High School Football will be holding tryouts for the 2013 season, beginning July 25 through July 27.

Before he commits to his academic career path, Ryan Rodriguez is going to take a swing at professional baseball.

The Maui Pony All-Stars baseball team will be competing at the Hawaii State Pony Baseball Championships for 13-year-olds in Hilo, from June 27 to July 1.

Leading the charge was Kekaulike 10th grader Kanoa Awai-Dickson with awards for state All-Around Cowboy, State Steer Wrestling Champion, and State Rookie of the Year. He also earned the State Team Roping Champion, alongside Kaena Poouahi, a 9th grader, also from Kekaulike.

Kamehameha Maui’s Quinn Kihune and Lahainaluna’s Hercules Mata’afa are the Maui Interscholastic League’s most recent football prospects to rouse the interest of college coaches across the country.

The Valley Isle Soccer Academy concluded unprecedented week of soccer training Friday, June 7, with its inaugural Showcase Games that featured 68 promising high school players.

One of Hawaii’s promising young tennis talents, freshman-to-be Jaylee Yasunaga, has enrolled at Maui Preparatory Academy, according to head of school Jonathan Silver.

Maui will be the first stop in a series of football clinics by the University of Hawaii at high school campuses across the state in June.

Kihei’s William Schefer won the open division of the 2013 Kahakuloa Coast Run and Relay, Saturday, June 1, in 1 hour, 19 minutes and 33 seconds.

His name is Robert Dougherty and he will be the new face of the Seabury Hall athletic department.

The countdown on Steve Colflesh’s incredible 30-year career at Seabury Hall officially ended last Saturday at graduation.

Seattle Seahawks linebacker John Lotulelei was awarded a $25,000 signing bonus Tuesday, the largest payout to an undrafted rookie free-agent in the NFL this year.

Baldwin High School’s three-sport athlete Keelan Ewaliko and Seabury Hall swimmer Renny Richmond were selected to the Hawai‘i High School Athletic Association’s 2013 Class of Inductees into the Enterprise Rent-A-Car/HHSAA Hall of Honor.

Maui’s Kristine Felix, a freshman at Washington State University, became the first Cougar woman to win the conference championships in the pole vault Sunday at the Pac-12 Track & Field Championships on Cromwell Field at Loker Stadium on the USC campus.

Even with a bruised shoulder from the trials, Baldwin High School’s Keelan Ewaliko carried the Bears to its second straight Hawaii High School Athletic Association State Track and Field Championship Saturday at Mililani High School by a quarter point over Punahou, 66.25 to 66.

Seabury Hall didn’t need more motivation, but that’s exactly what Saturday’s one-point defeat to Punahou will be for the next 365 days.

Images of our Maui Interscholastic League athletes competing at the Island Movers State Track and Field Championships, May 10-11, at Mililani High School’s John Kauinana Stadium.

Punahou School’s Kalena Preus capped his final round Wednesday at Royal Kaanapali Golf Course with a long birdie putt at No. 18 and a victorious snarl.