#2014

Given the number of surprise eliminations, big wins, and clutch performances that unfolded today at the Target Maui Pro, reflecting on the last day in the future will forever be a gratitude-filled exercise.

The Arizona Wildcats claimed the 2014 EA Sports Maui Invitational Tournament Championship with a 61-59 win over the San Diego State Aztecs Wednesday at the Lahaina Civic Center.

The third-ranked Arizona Wildcats answered their first big challenge of the season Tuesday, holding off Kansas State and advancing to the championship game of the EA Sports Maui Invitational.

San Diego State head basketball coach Steve Fisher is hoping to make his fifth trip to Maui his most memorable.

In the sport of cheerleading, Kealii Molina’s stamp of authenticity is winning.

The unbeaten Lunas managed to shutout Baldwin 35-0 Friday at War Memorial Stadium despite playing as if it had skipped a beat before a homecoming crowd of about 3,000.

The Sabers’ defense set the tempo early and their offense delivered scores running and passing the ball en route to a 27-0 shutout of Division I foe Baldwin, before a crowd of about 2,500 at War Memorial Stadium.

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 Lahainaluna High School football team revved its engine Saturday and the noise it made on the field hushed the homecoming crowd at Kamehameha Maui.

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.

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.

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.