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Spartan Showdown

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010

Spartan Showdown

With less than a minute left in Friday night’s game at The Barn, Seabuary Hall’s Reynald Sorayama nailed a three-pointer to cap off a 73-23 victory over the Molokai High boys’ basketball team. The Spartans couldn’t miss from beyond the three-point line and rode their hot shooting streak to a pair of wins over the previously undefeated Farmers last weekend.

“[Seabury] shot the ball really well all weekend,” Molokai coach Lee DeRouin said. “They are good shooters and they are good basketball players.”

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Saturday afternoon started on a warmer note, as all six girls and Aalona prepared to race their final events of the season. Because only eight teams competed in the championships, all relays were raced on Saturday – giving the Molokai girls one more chance.

“They all swam great, all swam to their current potential,” Ford said.

The Molokai kane swimmers finished the season in sixth place, but didn’t place in the wahine division. Ford and the swimmers are already thinking about next season, and a potential club team by summertime.

“They’ve made so much progress in three months, now all they need to improve is more training and development of details,” Ford said.

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Building Economy with Sports

Thursday, January 28th, 2010

State of Hawaii News Release

Lt. Governor James R. “Duke” Aiona, Jr. announced last week that he is proposing legislation to establish a Hawai‘i Sports Commission that would enhance the state’s potential to become a worldwide leader in sports and sporting events.

The 13-member commission would be given the full-time responsibility to attract, develop and promote sports and sporting events throughout the state and generate revenues for Hawai‘i’s economy.

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Sports Round-Up

Monday, January 18th, 2010

Sports Round-Up

The Farmers brought home three first place finishes from the wrestling meet held at King Kekaulike last weekend. The meet was the second of the year for the Maui Interscholastic League (MIL), but the first that Molokai competed in.

Junior Kevin Dudoit battled through a series of tough opponents to win the 135-pound weight class. On the girls’ side Charisse Manley won the 130-pound division and the biggest surprise of the day was freshman Michal Torres-Umi who won the 120-pound division in her first ever high school meet.

Dudoit and Manley were top competitors last year and are continuing to get better, but Torres-Umi was a pleasant surprise.

“Her last match was a pretty big win. She beat out a junior or a senior from Baldwin,” said Molokai coach Randy Manley. “Our girls’s team did very well overall. If things stay consistent, they should have a very good finish.”

Manley said he was missing several wrestlers who couldn’t make the trip this weekend, but would help fill some of the gaps in the Farmers’ lineup. He was able to use this meet to figure out what weight classes he needed to place his strongest wrestlers in and is looking forward to this week’s meet.

“We're thinking that if we put everybody in the mix, we should look pretty good by the end of the season,” Manley said.

The Farmers are back in action this weekend with another MIL meet at Kamehameha- Maui.

Swimming
Even though the Molokai High School boys’ swim team is too small for a relay, the kane swimmers managed to place seventh out of nine teams in the first of two meets this past weekend.

The MIL Invitational at Kihei was the first back-to-back meet for the swimmers this year, who dropped their individual times considerably on the first day and held them steady on the second. 

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The Friendly Isle swimmers’ next meet will be the MIL Championships at Kihei on January 29 and 30.

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Paddlers Ready for Redemption

Thursday, January 14th, 2010

A week after being disqualified in the waters of Kahului Harbor, the Molokai High paddlers are returning for redemption. The girls’, boys’ and mixed teams will all be back in Kahului this weekend for their third Maui Interscholastic League race of the season.

The boys’ team was disqualified in their first heat last weekend when the nose of their canoe crossed the starting line a little too early. Molokai coach Jonathon Smith said the team probably would have finished in third place.

“We all kind of believed there were some officiating calls that were errors, but we weren’t there to make the call,” Smith said. “We were feeling a little pushed against with calls on both the boys’ and girls’ sides.”

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Swimmers Learn from First Meet

Thursday, January 14th, 2010

Swimmers Learn from First Meet

The Molokai High swim team made their season debut last weekend at a meet in Lahainaluna. While the team’s small number kept them off of the leaderboard, they hit the water with some strong individual races.

Junior Cole Mosher and sophomore Lawaia Aalona placed in the top eight out of 37 swimmers in the 50-yard freestyle event. Mosher picked up seventh with a time of 25.66 and Aalona finished just behind him in 25.72 seconds. The boys’ raced in adjacent lanes, playing on their teammate competitiveness. Molokai head coach Jessie Ford called their efforts “absolutely outstanding.”

Small numbers hurt the final scores for the Farmers who have only nine members on the team. The wahine finished seventh out of eight teams overall and the boys were unable to compete in any relays with only three swimmers, which meant they could not place. Ford was pleased with the performance.

“They raced about how I thought they would. They went in there and put it down, Molokai style,” Ford said.

The Farmers head to Kihei next weekend for back-to-back meets on Jan. 15 and 16. The first taste of a swim meet has energized the team for the rest of the season.

“It makes me hungry to race again,” Puhi said.

“I’m excited for the next two meets, I think the closeness of the two meets is going to help the swimmers stay focused and stay with racing mentality for next week,” Ford said.

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High-Scoring Farmers Fall Just Short

Tuesday, January 12th, 2010

High-Scoring Farmers Fall Just Short

The Molokai High girls’ soccer team made history Friday afternoon by becoming the first Farmers team to score multiple goals in a game during a 4-2 loss to St. Anthony. In a rematch on Saturday, the offense exploded again, this time netting a program-record three goals. Molokai couldn’t quite pull out the win, but played their best game to date this season in the 4-3 loss.

Facing a 3-0 deficit at the start of the second half of Saturday’s game, junior captain Chelsea Sakamoto gave Molokai the spark it needed. Sakamoto chipped around a St. Anthony defender and ripped a shot at lower right corner of the net to get the Farmers on the scoreboard. Seven minutes later, Sakamoto found herself alone at the top of the goalie box again. This time she pushed one just over the hands of the Trojans’ goalkeeper.

are doing really well. Those are our top players and they’re really working together well with the team.”

Sakamoto also scored in Friday afternoon’s 3-2 loss. Villa had the other Molokai goal in Friday’s game and also picked up two assists on Saturday. Senior Melody Ocampo added two assists of her own in Friday’s game.

The pair of losses dropped Molokai to 0-10 on the season with four games remaining on the schedule. The team will take a week off before traveling to play Maui High School on Jan. 22 and 23.

“This makes the girls feel a lot better about their season,” Shelton said. “We have one more home game coming up that should be just as competitive as this.”

Molokai finishes its season at home with a pair of games against Seabury Hall on Jan. 29 and 30.

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Winter Break Sports Round-Up

Thursday, January 7th, 2010

The Molokai High boys’ paddling team took advantage of calm waters in Lahaina two weeks ago by posting their best time of the year en route to a second place finish in the Dec. 19 tournament.

“The team was really pumped, they were all very happy with the results,” said head coach Jonathon Smith.

Smith said this team – made up of Mahi Kan-Hai, Punohu Seitz, Ka`ili Levi, Ka`oli Place, Gaig Yap and Eric Gilliland – is off to the best start since he has been coaching.

“We expected to do pretty well, but we are definitely pleased with where we are at right now,” he said.

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Christmas Champs

Wednesday, January 6th, 2010

Christmas Champs



One of the most exciting parts of the holiday season is the chance to gather with family and old friends. Molokai High School graduates took advantage of that chance to hold an alumni softball tournament on Dec. 25-27. The tournament champion this year, above, was Team Bad Temper with players who graduated between 2005 and 2009. The team members were (Top, from left to right): Titah Maliu-Calairo, Mili Rawlins, Taija Espaniola, Mele Reyes, Cheyanne Keli?iho?omalu, (bottom) Trinity Torres-Umi, Lacey Santiago, Leilani Oneha, Iza Rapanot, and La?e Pa.

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Minor Leagues Come to Maui

Tuesday, January 5th, 2010

Minor Leagues Come to Maui

It’s time to break out the peanuts and Cracker Jacks. Last week, the Golden Baseball League (GBL) announced they would be expanding with a new team on Maui. The team, named Na Ikaika Koa Maui, is scheduled to play its first game this May.

''I love Maui and I love the opportunity,” said the team’s president Rick Berry. “In talking to a lot of people, it was just the excitement. You have to have a passion for it. The excitement from the people and the passion is there.”

The 30-year-old Okano has played for three different GBL teams before returning to his native Hawaii this year. Okano, who will play outfield for Na Ikaika, was born in Honolulu and graduated from Aiea High School.

“This is my living dream, playing at home in front of the home crowd,” Okano said. “It is very cool to be the first signee. We have a great name and this is Hawaii, you know, representing my home state.”

If Snyder has his way there will be plenty of other team members representing their home state in May. Snyder listed several Hawaiian players that he was hoping to sign in the off-season. Molokai graduate Milton Loo was one of the players Snyder will try to add to the roster.

''Milton Loo is definitely on the list,'' Snyder said. ''I will get as many local guys as I can.”

Loo graduated from Molokai High in 2005 and was drafted by the Cincinnati Reds in the ninth round. He went on to play shortstop for Yavapai Community College in Arizona where he was named an All-American.

Berry said he fully understood the challenges that go along with starting a team in Hawaii, but was confident they could make it work. He said the team is still looking for airline and hotel sponsors to assist with travel.

''We are a little behind where we want to be right now, but we know what we need to get done and that really helps,'' Berry said.

Na Ikaika will play its home games at Maehara Stadium in Wailuku and Berry said ticket prices will range from $5 to $14. An official schedule will be released later this month.

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The Week in Sports…

Monday, January 4th, 2010

The Week in Sports…

 

 

Last Week’s Scores

Canoe Paddling
12/19 Molokai Boys (4:13) – second overall
12/19 Molokai Girls – fourth overall
12/19 Molokai Mixed – fifth overall

Girls’ Basketball
12/22 Konawaena 54, Molokai 37
12/21 Molokai 61, Kamehameha-Hawaii 55 (OT)

Boys’ Basketball
12/20 Molokai 63, Richmond 33

MHS Alumni Softball Tournament
Champion – Team Bad Temper (c/o 2005-09)


Coming up…

Girls’ Soccer
01/08 Molokai v. St. Anthony @ 3:30 (Kaunakakai Ball Park)
01/09 Molokai v. St. Anthony @ 10 a.m. (Kaunakakai Ball Park)

Canoe Paddling
01/09 Molokai @ MIL Kahului Harbor Meet # 1 @ 10 a.m. (Kahului, Maui)

Swimming
01/09 Molokai @ MIL Swim Meet # 1 @ 10 a.m. (Lahainaluna)

Wrestling
01/09 Molokai @ MIL Meet #1 @ 9:30 a.m. (Hana)

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