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Kapolei 4x100 boys relay anchor runner Kaipo-Noa Kaheaku-Enhada headed toward the finish as Kapolei took first in the OIA event.
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Kahuku is known as a football school, but the Red Raiders boys track and field team -- along with the girls team of host Mililani -- took the spotlight at the Oahu Interscholastic Association championships last night.
Kahuku's boys won their first OIA title by scoring 56 points and defending OIA champ Roosevelt was second with 35. Mililani won its seventh OIA crown with 88 points, with Kaiser a distant second with 25. Both winning teams capped the night with victories in the 4x400 relay.
The Red Raiders, who struggled during the qualifying events Thursday, needed a big day from everyone according to head coach Sean Makaiau. The results he got were even better than big.
"I don't know what it was about today," Makaiau said. "Some of the performances I got from my kids were unbelievable."
At the top of that list was Jerrod Avegalio, who won the shot-put with a throw of 55 feet, one inch. But it was his discus throw of 181-6, breaking the meet record set back in 1993 by close to ten feet, that had his head coach smiling.
"He had never thrown it that far before," Makaiau said. "I was impressed."
Makaiau was also quick to praise the performance of Ryan Oume. He won the boys 3000 meters in a time of 9:44.56.
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Waianae's Lalaynnia Deperalta, left, took first place in the girls 100-meter dash, ahead of Farrington's Euvelyn Calma and Mililani's Charity Senas.
"Oume was really key for us as well," the Kahuku coach said. "He was battling some injures and ran hurt so for him to win the 3000 meters was a real nice accomplishment."
Meanwhile, sisters Chun Mei and Mei Li Nickles led a balanced Trojan girls team to their fifth league championship in six years.
"This all started back in February," Mililani coach Dane Matsunaga said. "These girls have been working hard all year and it paid off today."
Chun Mei Nickles pole-vaulted 10-7 to break the old record by one inch, and she also won the 100 hurdles in 15.66.
Mei Li Nickles won the long jump (17-7 1/2) and triple jump (35-8), while Jennifer Loo took home the 300 meter hurdles championship with a time of 47.97. Also, Deanne Soon won the 1500 meters with 5:04.93.
The Nickles sisters also combined with Liane Tom and Charity Senas to win the 4x100 relay (51.63).
"Hopefully it'll carry on through to states (this week at Kamehameha)," Matsunaga said.
The Red Raiders boys seemed unlikely winners after Thursday. They struggled in qualifying, including scratching out of their best event, the 4x100 relay.
"We really had a hard time Thursday, and Friday I tried to regroup the kids," Makaiau said. "I told them not to give up and that we would have to be near-perfect to win, and fortunately they responded."
As for other individual events, Radford's Andrew Maixner, who already won the 1500 meter race in 4:13.57 seconds, came from behind down the stretch to take home the 800 meters victory (2:03.05) as well.
"I really wanted to try to take the lead before the last two turns, but I just wasn't feeling very good out there," Maixner said. "Fortunately at the end my training paid off and I was able to make one last move to win."
Leilehua's Sirron Bowman bounced back from falling in the 110 hurdles and injuring his shoulder to win the 300 meter hurdles event in 40.30.
"I was worried about my shoulder, but I just fought through it," Bowman said.
And while coming back to win the 300 hurdles was a big win for him, Bowman had his other priorities as well.
"Now that I'm done running I've got to hurry and get to prom," he said.
Other double-winners included Farrington's Rosela Fa'aiu in the shot (37-4) and the discus (107-10) and Kalani's KaHung Tsoi accounted for all the Falcons' boys points with victories in the long jump (21-0) and triple jump (43-9).
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Mid-Pacific 4, Punahou 3: Harrison Kuroda pitched four solid innings and Randy Rundgren drove in two runs as the Owls advanced to the tournament championship game.Mid-Pacific plays Kamehameha on Tuesday at 6 p.m. at Ala Wai Field for the league title.
Kuroda struck out five batters after relieving Jayson Kramer in the third inning.
Mid-Pacific (11-7-1) 000 400 0 -- 4 6 1 Punahou (12-6) 002 010 0 -- 3 6 0 Jayson Kramer, Harrison Kuroda (3) and Kip Masuda; Kasey Ko, Shaun Kiriu (4), Landon Nakata (7) and Michael Kim. W -- Kuroda; L -- Ko.
Leading hitters -- MPI: Randy Rundgren 2-4, 2b, 2RBIs. Pun: Michael Lam 2-4; Mark Veneri 2b.
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