"In my mind, it's a go," said Dwight Toyama yesterday.

The HHSAA met on Saturday with its executive board members at Kamehameha Schools, where an agreement was reached that the tournaments should go on.

The executive board, composed of principals, includes Kauai High's Linda Tanouye, Baldwin's Wallace Fujii, Leilehua's Norman Minehira, Waiakea's Danford Sakai and HHSAA president Anthony Ramos of Kamehameha.

The boys' basketball tournament and soccer tournament are both scheduled to begin tomorrow and run through Saturday.

The state swimming and wrestling tournaments would be held the following week.

"We've started the tournament period and we have to finish," said Toyama.

But he said the HHSAA executive board made its decision to move forward with the postseason events in the knowledge that either Gov. Ben Cayetano or superintendent of schools Herman Aizawa might pull the plug at any time.

Aizawa has issued a directive that schools cannot participate in the tournaments unless they're certain they can provide proper supervision for their students under strike conditions.

"That's why this is up to the individual schools," said Toyama.

"We can not tell them what to do.

"A school might decide that it can not do that."

A strike will knock several key teacher-coaches out of the state basketball tournament.

All five of the Oahu Interscholastic Association coaches are teachers, including Pete Smith, head coach of three-time league champion Kalaheo, and Eddie Maruyama, head coach of 1996 defending state champion Moanalua.