UHH women score late to notch first victory
UH-Hilo women’s soccer coach Gene Okamura still doesn’t know if his team has played with a consistent effort for a full match yet, but the Vulcans surely are getting closer.
Keeping track of Kolten, Sept. 7
Following the Brewers’ Kolten Wong, a Hilo native and 2008 Kamehameha graduate
Three junior golfers defend home turf at Hualalai
Dysen Park can hardly lose these days on the Hawaii State Junior Golf Association tour, and he might not even be the hottest Big Island junior golfer at the moment.
UH-Hilo women’s soccer falls 2-1 at Humboldt State
Quality play continues to come in 45-minute increments – not 90 – for UH-Hilo’s women’s soccer team.
Punatics put on powerful kupuna display on Kauai
Al Asuncion enjoyed working with youth teams in the past, so he figured coaching the Punatics kupuna softball team would be just as fun – and more relaxing.
Cordeiro’s three TDs pace Hawaii past Portland State 49-35
HONOLULU — Chevan Cordeiro passed for three touchdowns, Dedrick Parson ran for two scores and Hawaii beat Portland State 49-35 on Saturday night in the first football game played on school campus.
College footballl: Hawaii opens campus era, hopes to bounce back against Portland State
Dealt with a setback earlier this year – the demise of Aloha Stadium – junior receiver Nick Mardner took heart that the field transformation was quick.
Effort underway to rescue girls soccer team from Afghanistan
They move from place to place at a moment’s notice in a desperate bid to evade the Taliban — girls whose lives are in danger simply because they chose to play a sport they loved.
COVID spike saps oxygen supplies in U.S.
MISSION, Kan. — The COVID-19 surge is stretching oxygen supplies and sending hospitals scrambling for more ventilators, even as there are signs of hope that the spread of the virus is slowing down in pockets of the U.S.
UHH women’s soccer: Spring-tested Vuls blend in slew of familiar faces
Kierstyn Yamamoto graduated from Keaau in 2019, went to Cal Baptist to play soccer but never logged a minute at the Division I school that used to dominate UH-Hilo and everyone else in the PacWest.
Coach wants Konawaena to wrestle with success
While the BIIF’s fall sports remain in a holding pattern until late September during the Department of Education’s vaccination-driven shutdown, at least one coach of a winter sport, wrestling, is proceeding as planned.
Honolulu ousted at Little League World Series with 2-0 loss
SOUTH WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. — Cameron Thorning hit a two-run homer and struck out seven over 3 ⅓ innings as Michigan defeated Hawaii 2-1 in a semifinal Saturday at the Little League World Series.
Isolated from family, Hawaii Little Leaguers just keep winning
SOUTH WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. — Hawaii second baseman Zack Bagoyo knows he’s lucky.
UCLA out to buck trend against Hawaii
LOS ANGELES — Chip Kelly has a win over Southern California and two victories over ranked teams during his tenure at UCLA. What he doesn’t have is a win over a nonconference opponent.
Senators hear praise of Ige’s new appeals court nominee
HONOLULU — People on Wednesday praised Gov. David Ige’s latest nominee to serve on the Intermediate Court of Appeals, telling the Hawaii Senate Judiciary Committee that Sonja McCullen was highly qualified for the job.
COVID-19 outbreaks in US spur reversals on in-person learning
ATLANTA — A few weeks into the new school year, growing numbers of U.S. districts have halted in-person learning or switched to hybrid models because of rapidly mounting coronavirus infections.
Golf: Waiakea High golfer reaches semis at HSJGA match play championships
It’s 15 holes down on Maui and hopefully many more to go for Dysen Park.
‘Bracing for the worst’ in Florida’s COVID-19 hot zone
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — As quickly as one COVID patient is discharged, another waits for a bed in northeast Florida, the hot zone of the state’s latest surge. But the patients at Baptist Health’s five hospitals across Jacksonville are younger and getting sick from the virus faster than people did last summer.
Stay home, fans: Empty stands at UH home events over rising coronavirus cases
Spectators will not be permitted to attend the University of Hawaii season-opening home sporting events because of the surge in cases, school officials announced Friday.
US health officials call for booster shots
WASHINGTON — U.S. health officials Wednesday announced plans to dispense COVID-19 booster shots to all Americans to shore up their protection amid the surging delta variant and signs that the vaccines’ effectiveness is slipping.
