Waiakea boys soccer has another reason to think big.

Defeating the team to beat for the second time in as many days proved too tall of a task for Nobu Yamauchi RBI.

On the main soccer field Saturday at Hilo Bayfront, the Chicas’ vintage edition paved its the way to the championship game, and a little while later across the stream the club’s next generation did the same.

The storm has passed, and the grass at Hilo Bayfront soccer fields has been manicured and fertilized and is open for business.

Pomaikai translates to lucky, and in Hawaii Kupuna Softball circles it also means good.

There was, of course, the obligatory “you don’t look a day over 70” joke heard on the field, and considering the sheer number of games, it probably wasn’t the only one.

It’s been 55 years for three of them, even more for one since they last played Little League baseball together in Hilo for Joe Estrella.

There probably aren’t too many similarities between Louisville, Kentucky and Hilo, but Cardinals assistant tennis coach Kevin Fulton managed to bridge the gap of some 4,250-plus miles.

Thirty-five years later, Stan Lawrence decided he had done his time as organizer, marketing and publicity agent and all-around Mr. Do Everything of the Quiksilver-Maui Jim Sunglasses Pro-Am Surfing Trials at Honolii.

Standing in the circle at UH-Hilo softball field, Honolulu 13-year-old Jenna Sniffen already looked the part.

His club’s lead was trimmed to a single digit, so Kai Opua athletic director Mike Atwood made a point of letting his final crew know it was win – or else.