Prep Beat

By Star-Bulletin Staff

Friday, February 14, 1997

By Dennis Oda, Star-Bulletin
Kalaheo's Jamari Buxton, right, takes a rebound away from
Kaiser's Travis Sutton as Justin McCoy (44) and Elliott Pierre look on.

Waipahu stops Moanalua

The Marauders will meet Kalaheo tonight
for the OIA basketball championship

By Pat Bigold
Star-Bulletin

For Waipahu High School's basketball team, it came down to about six blinks of an eye and a wide receiver last night at the Blaisdell Arena.

After engaging in a seesaw battle with the previously unbeaten Moanalua Menehunes that lasted almost the entire 32 minutes, the upstart Waipahu Marauders (10-3) found themselves having to defend a 44-43 lead for the final 6.2 seconds.

Alvin Takeshita, better known for his exploits catching passes on the gridiron, became the player of the moment for Waipahu, assigned to guard one of the slickest and trickiest ballplayers in the state, Moanalua guard Ramsey Williams.

The inbound play strategy was to work the ball out to Williams, the driving force in Moanalua's 1996 state championship, for the last shot.

"They sent him down and tried to flare him out into the corner," said Waipahu head coach Cosmo Arakawa.

Takeshita, anything but a basketball purist but a fine athlete, refused to allow Williams enough movement to catch a pass from Brian Rosado-Galindo. Rosado-Galindo wound up having to take on off-balance shot that banged off the glass as the buzzer sounded.

Waipahu earned a shot at three-time defending league champion Kalaheo (11-0) in tonight's Oahu Interscholastic Association finale. Game time is 8 p.m.

"I was just denying, fronting him, playing chest-to-chest with him," Takeshita said. "He was trying to use the screens to get open because he knew we were trying to take him out of the game."

Williams scored all of his 14 points in the first three quarters but Takeshita and teammate Neal Gossett allowed him nothing in the fourth.

"He has good hands and is very quick off the first step, so you play him different ways."

Said Moanalua coach Eddie Maruyama, "They outplayed us and outhustled us. They got all the loose balls. They got all the boards. So I don't think we could match their intensity level. We tried to at the end but then it was a little too tight."

Jerome Williams and Pelupelu Vasega combined for 21 points to lead the Waipahu offense.

Moanalua fell to 11-1.

Waipahu		8	11	15	10 -- 44
Moanalua	11	8	16	8 -- 43

Waipahu Takeshita 2, Aquino 6, Acidera 8, Vasega 10, J. Williams 11, Wright 0, Gossett Jr.7

Moanalua Jones 8, Kesaji 4, Rosado-Galindo 4, Marshall-Greene 5, R. Williams 14, Bruce 4, Kamakura 4.

Kalaheo 40, Kaiser 35: Steve Hess' timely 3-pointer with 2 minutes and 15 seconds left turned a two-point barnburner into a five-point cushion (33-28) for the Mustangs.

"It was a big shot," Kalaheo head coach Pete Smith said. "We needed another bucket and Steve hit the big shot. Anytime a guy hits a 3-pointer with a couple minutes left and you've got only a two-point lead, it's a timely shot."

But Smith knew he and his team were lucky to get past Kaiser.

They entered the intermission with a 26-16 lead and complete control of the game.

But when they returned to the court, they didn't score another field goal until the second half was nearly 912 minutes gone. Kaiser (9-3) outscored Kalaheo, 8-0, in the third quarter.

Kaiser		5	11	8	11--35
Kalaheo		11	15	0	14--40

Kaiser Sutton 4, Sato 0, Kakuda 3 Giles 22, O'Heron 2, Gregerson 1, McGee 0, Elliot 3.

Kalaheo Furtado 7, Sensley 8, Lutu 2, Hess 14, Buxton 1, Freeman, Kamelamela 2, McCoy 0.

Radford 79, Kahuku 57: The Rams jumped to a 22-5 advanctage after the first quarter and never looked back in a consolation bracket game.

Radford		22	22	18	17--79
Kahuku		5	13	18	21--57

Radford Jerry Polyascko 0 , Lelie 11, John Polyascko 4, Perez 1, Bumanglag 7, Hussey 0,Grissett 0, Kealoha 10 , Degruy 16 , Morrow 10 , O'Donnell 2 , Hunter 2 , Leverenz 16.

Kahuku Akoi 9, Fonoti 0, Frederick 5, Maalaelu 13, Manutai 0, Morris 4, Nawahine 9,Nikora 2, Peters 0, Salanoa 2, B. Smith 0, C. Smith 2, Talatoni 2 , Toatai 7, Fotu 2.

Aiea 55, Campbell 48: Na Alii advanced to face Radford in tonight's fifth-place game.

Campbell	12	15	9	12--48
Aiea		12	15	11	17--55

Campbell Palipi 0, E. Limjoco 16, Haapenney 2, A. Limjoco 5, Matanane 5, Cook 6, B. Viloria 4, Bumanglag 0, Redor 0, M. Viloria 10.

Aiea Offerman 10, Riel 0, Davis 0, Okano 14, Lee 6, Kolone 13 , Liilii 2, Aleaga 7, Mosquada 3.

Punahou, St. Louis
play for ILH state berth

Star-Bulletin staff

Punahou and St. Louis will play tonight at 6:30 at Hawaii Baptist Academy for the Interscholastic League of Honolulu's second berth in next week's state basketball tournament. Both won last night in the ILH playoff semifinals at Iolani.

Punahou 68, University High 38: Despite playing without senior center Scott Wong, the Buffanblu cruised against the Junior Rainbows.

Wade Ichinose led Punahou with 13 points and Brandon Brooks and Bradon Chock each added 11.

Kainoa Morikami had 10 points for the Jr. 'Bows.

University High	7	11	10	10--38
Punahou		11	18	17	22--68

University High: Morikami 10, Neverdon 9, Liu 9, Penebacker 4, Cabacungan 3, AhSan 3, Cambra 0.

Punahou: Ichinose 13, Brooks 11, Chock 11, Kim 9, Gilliam 7, Brokaw 4, Tauotaha 4, Young 3, Salter 3, Lam 2, Suzuki 1.

St. Louis 50, Kamehameha 31: Kaweo Feeney scored 12 points to lead the Crusaders, who had a huge advantage at the free-throw line.

St. Louis hit 25 of 29 free-throw attempts. The Warriors were 5 of 14.

Kamehameha    	5	4	6	16--31
St. Louis  	6	11	8	25--50

Kamehameha: Takasaki 9, Huihui 8, Wise 5, Winchester 4, Lee 2, Kanoa 2, Hashimoto 1, Santos 0, Abreau 0, Ordenstein 0, Bello 0.

St. Louis: Feeney 12, Dudley 9, Vivas 9, Chang 6, Siofele 5, A. Thompson 3, S. Thompson 3, Santos 2, Mann 1.

Kapule pitches Kailua into semis

Star-Bulletin staff

Defending champion Kailua dumped second-seeded Sacred Hearts Academy, 8-1, last night at Roosevelt Stadium behind the pitching of left-hander Pomai Kapule in the quarterfinals of the state softball tournament.

The Surfriders move on to meet No. 3 seed Lahainaluna in a 5:30 p.m. semifinal at Roosevelt.

Kelly Kaaihili pitched Kamehameha past No. 4 seed Hilo, 1-0. The Warriors will face top-seeded Mililani, the OIA champion, at 7 p.m.

In other quarterfinal games yesterday, Mililani edged Waimea, 9-7, and Lahainaluna rolled past Kaiser, 10-4.

In consolation round action, Roosevelt squeaked past Waianae, 3-2.

Oahu teams rule in state soccer

Star-Bulletin staff

It was an all-Oahu day yesterday in the state girls' soccer tournament quarterfinals at Aloha Stadium.

Top-seeded Punahou shut out Kapaa, 6-0, Pearl City edged Seabury Hall, 3-1, Kamehameha blanked Hawaii Prep, 2-0 and Kaiser got by Konawaena, 1-0.

Kii Spencer-Vasconcellos had two goals in the Buffanblu win.

Robyn DeHay's two goals helped the Warriors beat Hawaii Prep.

In today's action, Kamehameha faces Kaiser at 5:30 p.m. and Punahou takes on Pearl City at 7:30 p.m. In consolation play, it's Mililani vs. Castle at 11:30 a.m., Kapaa vs. Seabury Hall at 1:30 p.m. and Konawaena vs. Hawaii Prep, at 3:30 p.m.