It was never close between Waiakea and Moanalua at the Division I state tournament on Monday at the Warriors Gym, where all the energy was monopolized by the home team.

Waiakea trailed by 18 points after the first quarter against Konawaena and ran out of time in a wild comeback that fell short.

Hawaii Prep again watched Kamehameha be its own worst enemy with too many turnovers, and was good enough in its own right to be in championship form.

The UH-Hilo basketball team stopped its five-game PacWest slide with an 88-70 win over Hawaii Pacific on Tuesday night at the Shark Tank on Oahu.

The UH-Hilo baseball team took four of five games against San Diego Christian College on Sunday, winning the first game 1 4-0 and losing the second game 9-8 at Wong Stadium.

The Kamehameha boys canoe crew showed the strength of its young paddlers with an upset victory at the final BIIF tune-up regatta on Saturday at Hilo Bay, where conditions were different from a week ago.

The UH-Hilo baseball team has made a nice progression since coach Kallen Miyataki took over in 2014, grabbed the steering wheel, and did a 180-degree turn to change the long losing culture.

Joe Gallagher remembers all the times his mom, Susan, used to drive him and his three siblings, brother Matt and sisters Samantha and Grace, around for their various baseball or softball games.

The UH-Hilo basketball team lost all four PacWest road games and fell from first to sixth in the conference standings, where parity is coming into play every week.

The 31st annual UH-Hilo men’s golf team’s Amer Ari tournament features 10 nationally ranked teams and seven ranked golfers, including defending champion David Puig from Arizona State.

It’s the first time in the Hilo girls basketball team’s long history that there has been three players who are prolific 3-point shooters like sisters Ayana and Alexa Meyer and Veda Galima. The Vikings have had talented players before who’ve played Division I college ball, but the roster has never been stocked with three long-range gunners like the Meyer sisters and Galima.

Starting Monday, the BIIF will allow a limited number of fans at a school’s discretion for all league winter sports, provided mandatory masks are properly worn (not below the nose) at all time by all spectators for indoor and outdoor events.

The UH-Hilo women’s basketball team lost to Biola 67-55 on Tuesday night in La Mirada, Calif., where a wave of the PacWest top teams continue to push the Vulcans down in the standings.

The last time the Hilo High girls basketball team qualified for the state tournament was in 2017 as the BIIF runner-up.

Sharon Peterson, an NAIA and UH-Hilo Hall of Fame volleyball coach, said she was fired by Hawaii Prep last week, a little more than a month after Ka Makani returned from the state tournament.