The revised 16-game Oahu Interscholastic Association championship football playoffs will get under way Friday and Saturday nights at home sites. OIA’s expanded football
playoffs start this weekThere will be six games Friday night and two games Saturday night. They will all start 25 minutes after the end of the junior varsity playoff games, which start at 5 p.m.
The quarterfinals (Oct. 30-31), semifinals (Nov. 6-7) and finals (Nov. 14) will be played at Aloha Stadium.
On Friday, top-seeded Campbell of the Red Conference (5-1) will host Blue Conference fourth-place finisher Pearl City (3-3), Red Conference fourth-place finisher Waipahu (3-3) will host White Conference fourth-place finisher Moanalua (3-3), White Conference top seed Kahuku (6-0) will host Blue Conference No. 2 seed Nanakuli (5-1), Red Conference No. 2 seed Waianae (5-1) will host White Conference fifth-place finisher Kailua (2-4), White Conference third-place finisher Kaiser (3-3) will host Red Conference fifth-place finisher Farrington (2-3-1), and Red Conference seventh-place team Roosevelt (0-6) at Blue Conference champion Mililani (5-1).
On Saturday, Red Conference sixth-place finisher Castle (1-5) will host White Conference runner-up McKinley (5-1) and Red Conference third-place finisher Leilehua (4-1-1) will host Blue Conference fourth-place finisher Kalaheo (4-2).
GOODS GETS WAC AWARD: Hawaii's Cecelia Goods was named Western Athletic Conference volleyball player of the week for the Pacific Division after helping the Wahine to victories over Rice and Tulsa.
Goods, a senior, had 26 kills in the two games and hit .658.
The Wahine moved up one notch, to No. 16, in the Volleyball Magazine Top 20, after improving to 15-4. Penn State remains No. 1 with a 19-0 record and Stanford is No. 2, at 18-2.
MATSUNAKA'S HOT: West Oahu CaneFires first baseman Nobuhiko Matsunaka was named Hawaii Winter Baseball player of the week after batting a league-leading .467 during opening week.
Matsunaka has five doubles and a slugging percentage of .733.
UH'S TING IN SECOND: University of Hawaii sophomore Desiree Ting was in second place after shooting a 77 yesterday for a two-round total of 149 in the SDSU/Aldila Golf Classic at San Diego.
Megan Spero of Iowa leads the tournament by one stroke with a 148.
The Wahine were in seventh place in the team standings, at 649. Iowa is in first, at 608.
WAHINE SAILORS FOURTH: The University of Hawaii women's sailing team finished in fourth place at the Pacific Coast Women's Fall Championships at Long Beach, Calif., on Sunday.
In Division A, skipper Laura Rehg and crew member Natalia Tangalin were sixth with 79 points in 15 races.
In Division B, skipper Molly O'Bryan and crew member Shelly Secretario were third with 48 points.
Hawaii finished with 127 points. USC won the regatta with 80.
POWERLIFTERS PLACE: Powerlifters from Hawaii took two world championships and a third place at the I.P.F. World Masters Powerlifting Championships held Oct. 14-19 in Budapest, Hungary.
Junior Faamausili of Mililani won the 275-pound division championship with a 781-pound squat, 501-pound bench press and 633-pound deadlift.
Gary Ferstler of Kailua won the 198-pound division with a 600-pound squat, 363-pound bench press and 683-pound deadlift.
Odd E. Haugen of Kailua took third in the super heavyweight division with a 638-pound squat, 462-pound bench press and 660-pound deadlift.
SEA WARRIORS LOSE: The Hawaii Pacific women's soccer team lost to Azusa Pacific, 1-0, yesterday at Azusa, Calif.
The Sea Warriors (7-8) managed only three shots. Melissa Myers scored for the Cougars (12-4).