Together again, 2019 Hilo High graduate Miya Clarke and Caneel “Booboo” Corpuz (2020) won a soccer championship at Peninsula College, a junior college perennial conference title contender in Port Angeles, Wash.

To state that Konawaena likes to throw the football is like saying a fish enjoys water. It’s a good thing the Wildcats have a promising young quarterback in sophomore Keoki Alani, who has room to grow on his 5-foot-11, 155-pound frame and a ceiling for more production.

There’s a difference between Division I and Division II basketball as UH-Hilo learned on Thursday in a second straight loss at the Rainbow Classic at the Stan Sheriff Center.

Hilo volleyball coach Kaleinani Kahananui’s team may lead the BIIF in resiliency but also in self-inflicted mistakes, too, each displayed in equal parts against Waiakea on Veteran’s and Senior day on Thursday at the Vikings’ gym.

Joe Nahale would have been proud of his son, Wyatt, and grandson, Sheynen-Wyatt Nahale, the second and third generation Waveriders for the Kealakehe football team.

The UH-Hilo basketball team lost one of its best players in Sasa Vuksanovic, who shot over 50% from the field, but upgraded the depth at guard with an influx of diverse skill-set athletes, a reason PacWest coaches picked the Vulcans fifth in the preseason poll.

Kameron Ng is that guy. You’ve seen him before in the basketball movie classic “Hoosiers.” Pick any character, and that’s Ng, only in a UH-Hilo uniform as a sophomore guard, who transferred from UH-Manoa.

UH-Hilo athletic, multi-skilled hoopster Ethan Jetter showed flashes as a freshman, despite averaging just 14 minutes off the bench during the COVID-19 shortened Merry-Go-Round PacWest season, when the only opponents were Chaminade and Hawaii Pacific.

UH-Hilo freshman center Erik Borg, Sasa Vuksanovic’s replacement, is already making himself at home on the basketball court and off it as well.

By KEVIN JAKAHI

If the UH-Hilo volleyball team misses the postseason, a four-set loss to Academy of Art will likely be a key reason.

The tale of Isabella Aguinaldo is a story to warm your heart and inspire any BIIF freshman who’s a rookie in their sport and wants to snag a collegiate scholarship.

Before she became the Hilo High girls volleyball coach, Kaleinani Kabalis reached a level very few coaches in the state have achieved, and so did her sister Kuulei Kabalis, her co-head coach.

The best part about the Dennis Rose Intercollegiate tournament is that it’s at home, where parents from the UH-Hilo men’s and women’s golf teams can grab a beneficial 3-for-1 bargain.

As a Keaau physical education teacher, Ian Van Cleave is around his football players all the time and has a good sense of their potential, which explains the team’s vision: E ho’oikaiika e holomua, to work hard or strive for progress and success.

Honokaa football coach Fred Lau has always had that motivational magic. He could inspire small and short Dragons to play much bigger than their size. In a parallel universe, he would have been Tony Robbins, motivating people to get off their couches and run through mountains.

Since 2010, Konawaena girls volleyball coach Ainsley Keawekane and Hawaii Prep coach Sharon Peterson have shared a history of battling each other for the BIIF championship.

KEAAU – Kealakehe junior Cozette Wood absolutely dominated and Levi Childers, also a Waverider junior, showed his impressive endurance at the season-opening BIIF cross country meet Saturday at Kamehameha’s campus.

It’s back to teaching the basics — blocking and tackling — for a lot of BIIF teams, including Kamehameha, which has a roster of 50 but most with little or no football experience.