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  • [View] -- March 2005 - Winter and Spring Sports Stories -- by newswriting staff

Archived News:

10-23-10 Sophie Curatilo wins OIA Championships [here].
8-8-10 Richard Villasenor make list of top defensive linemen
2-20-10 Brady Lafortune OIA Champion.
2-20-10 Basketball OIA Semifinals vs Mililani. [Here, 2]
1-10-09 Soccer Win vs Kahuku.
1-13-10 Quiet Combatant
11-22-09 Casen Mata is number 3 in the Star Bulletin All State Girls Volleyball Fab 15. Link- [here]
11-18-09 Chelsie Hata makes the Advertiser All State Girls Air Rifle Team. Link- [here]
11-07-09 Moanalua Cheerleading win Eastern Division Championships.
11-07-09 Moanalua claims OIA White Football title, 21-7 Article link- [here]
10-30-09 Article v Kamehameha Maui [here]
10-18-09 FB vs Aiea.Moanalua Madness, article2
9-14-09 Article on Carsen Mata [here]
10-9-09 FB vs Kaiser
9-15-09 Article on Tahje Canyon
9-11-09 Homecoming vs Pearl City : 28-25 [here]
8-28-09vs Radford

9-9-09 Varsity beat Farrington [here]
8-18-09 Volleyball sweep Kahuku. [here]

7-9-09 UH add's Eselu to Commmit List
5-16-2009Boys Track State Champion- Tyler Pinkney, Triple Jump



5-9-2009Girls & Boys Judo State Champions- Brady Lafortune, Justin Osumi, Branen Yamamoto, Rachel Ostovich

advertiser Article Here


5-6-2009Girls Golf State Champion- Kristina Merkle

advertiser Article Here
4-12-2009Star Bulletin All State Basketball First Team- Marcus Monroe

Star Bulletin Article Here


3-20-2009 Advertiser All State Girls Soccer First Team - Tiana Fujimoto

Advertiser Article Here
3-1-2009 Advertiser All State Air Rifle First Team - Chelsie Hata

Advertiser Article Here


12-28-2008 Advertiser All State Cheerleading First Team - Rachel Ostovich
Second Team - Kekainani Lucero

Advertiser Article Here


12-28-2008 Advertiser All State Football Division II First Team- Xavier Peterson
Honorable Mention-Tahje Canyon

Advertiser Article Here


12-1-2008Star Bulletin All State Volleyball First Team- Carsen Mata
Honorable Mention- Lahela Kaili-Laroya, Ashley Asing, Kaylee Ponce

Star Bulletin Article Here
5-16-09 Congratulations to Boys Track, Tyler Pinkney State triple jump champion. Boys Volleyball Team- State 3rd place, Tyler Oshiro State All Tournament Team
5-14-09 Congratulations to Boys Judo Team- State runner up, Boys Golf Team- State runner up, Boys Volleyball Team- OIA Champs, Kristina Merkle State Golf champion, Rachel Ostovich- Brady Lafortune- Justin Osumi- Branen Yamamoto Judo State Champions.

5-9-09 Baseball place 4th in State [here].
5-7-09 Boys Volleyball OIA DII Champs [here]

3-16-09 Athletic Trainer, Reid Takano, on sunrise show with Steve Uyehara for Athletic Training month [here].

11-4-2008 Varsity Sweep Aiea in 1st Round States. [here]
11-4-08 Lahela Kaili-Laroya & Kaylee Ponce make Gamebreakers.
10-30-08 Varsity beat Farrington to advance in OIAs [here 1, 2]
10-23-2008Varsity win 3rd round OIAs vs Aiea. [here]
10-21-2008 Varsity Volleyball win 2nd round OIAs vs Pearl City:

10-18-2008 Chelsie Hata 1st Place in OIA [here].
10-16-2008 Air Riflery make OIA Championships. [ here].

10-17-08 FB vs Aiea. Star Bulletin: Waialua win [here]
10-14-2008 Tahje Canyon, Chelsie Hata, and Dustin Seghorn make this week's Gamebreakers.

10-7-2008 Chelsie Hata, Justin Watanabe and Michael Egami make this weeks Gamebreakers.
9-16-2008 Chelsie Hata, Lorenzo Directo and Elijah Cruz makes Honolulu Advertiser's Athlete of the Week
6-24-2008 Kristina Merkle wins 2008 PGA Junior Series at Kahili Golf Course, June 22-24. See Article HERE
5-10-2008 Boys Judo Team earn State runner up title- Brady Lafortune wins the 114 pound state title.
Article [here]
5-3-2008 Boys Judo win OIA Team Championships @ Aiea. [here]
5-7-2008 Kristina Merkle Wins Girls Golf State Championship on Kauai. Article [here]


4-28-2008 Golf wins Girls and boys OIA team championships. [here]
4-7-2008 Congratulations to Aaron Haque for being a 2008 HMSA Kaimana Scholarship Recipient.
4-5-2008 Stevie Austin named to the Advertiser All State Basketball 1st Team. Josh Kure honorable mention [Here]
4-5-2008 Moanalua Athletes participate in Boost Mobil competitions to raise money for the atheltic department. Kristina Merkle, Josh Kure, Justin Watanabe


4-2-2008 Stevie Austin and Britni Ronolo voted on to the Digital Sports Hawaii's Dream Team. [boys, girls]
4-1-2008 Stevie Austin and Britni Ronolo voted on to the Star Bulletin Fab 15 Basketball Team. [boys, girls]

3-28-2008Justin Watanabe and Tiana Fujimoto named to the Advertiser All State Soccer Team Honorable Mention.
3-25-2008 Lani Moniz in HYSA Senior All-Star Squad. [here]
3-11-2008 Varsity Softball win season opener vs Kailua: 2-0. [here]

2-26-2008 Stevie Austin Athlete of the Week. [Here]

2-13-2008 Basketball win Semi-final round vs Kalaheo. [article 1, 2]

1-23-2008

CONGRATULATIONS to KSSK OIA Coach's of the Week- Golf Joshua Suapaia, Girls Volleyball Robert Kaleiohi

1-22-2008 Boys Soccer win 1st Round OIAs. Aticle in Honolulu Advertiser [here].
12-27-2007 Year in Golf "Top 10 Stories" article about MoHS Student Athletes; (1) Tadd Fujikawa and (10) Kritina Merkle Advertiser Article.

12-26-2007 Advertiser All State Football Team: Montay Rover Honorable Mention Advertiser Article.

12-20-2007 Advertiser All State Volleyball Team: Kaleinani Kabalis First Team, Carson Mata, Sarah Robinson Honorable Mention Advertiser Article.

12-8-2007 Reid Takano (Athletic Trainer) and Elisse Hajime (Girls Varsity Blue Volleyball) earn KSSK Coach of Week Honors.


12-19-2007 Article on Stevie Austin in the Star-Bulletin.
Varsity vs Le Flore Pre-Season. Boys Varsity Team Ranked 4th in poll.

12-18-2007 Kelsey Tsutsui and Britni Ronolo in Advertiser's game brakers.

12-11-2007 Kaleinani Kabalis makes Volleyball All-State Team [here], Carsen Mata makes Honerable Mention.

11-14-2007 Senior Sarah Robinson signs with UH Softball Team. [article 1, article 2]


11-9-2007 Interview of Savaii Eselu at Cal [here].
10-31-2007 Tadd Fujikawa matched with McLachlin at the Childrens Miricle Network Classic.
10-26-2007 Tadd Fujikawa in the Miccosukee Championship.

10-25-2007 Varsity win the OIA championship game vs Kahuku. Article 1, 2.
9-8-2007 Moanalua Junior, Tadd Fujikawa, competing in European Masters- 2nd round- Tadd failed to make the cut despite a double eagle.
See Advertiser article's HERE

9-7-2007 Moanalua Junior, Tadd Fujikawa, competing in European Masters- 1st round- Tadd is 5 over thru 15 when play was suspended
See Advertiser article's HERE
9-6-2007 Moanalua Junior Tadd Fujikawa competing in European Masters Sept 6-9
See Advertiser article's HERE and HERE
9-4-2007 Moanalua Girls Volleyball ranked 3rd in the state. See article HERE

8-2-2007 Moanalua's Kristina Merkle in the Girls Junior Americas Cup [1, 2].
8-28-2007Girls VB win vs Kalani[article 1, 2]
7-19-2007 Moanalua's Tadd Fujikawa turns pro.
7-8-2007 Moanalua coach Josh Suapaia's Boys Volleyball team, which included Tyler Oshiro, wins gold for age group Junior National Title.
7-7-2007 Moanalua Volleyball girls Ashley Asing and Carson Mata's team place 11th in age group @ Junior Nationals.
7-1-2007 Moanalua Junior Kristina Merkle wins the Westfield Aloha Section Junior PGA Championship At Princeville Kaua'i yestereday.
7-1-2007 Moanalua Senior Kaleinani Kabalis selected to the Junior National Girls Volleyball Team read article HERE and HERE

5-20-2007 Kristina Merkle wins 2 in a row at the Jennie K. Wilson Invitational. [2]


5-20-2007 Moanalua Athletes Invited to attend NIKEtown's "Engage & Go" day with Michelle Wie

5-15-2007 Jamie Ronolo made Digital Sports Hawaii's Dream Team 2007
4-10-2007 All State Basketball Honors go to Stevie Austin and Josh Kure
All State All Tournament Team- Stevie Austin
Advertiser All State Second Team- Stevie Austin Article HERE
Star Bulletin All State First Team (Fab 15)- Stevie Austin Article HERE
Star Bulletin All State Honorable Mention- Josh Kure


2-11-2007 Tadd Fujikawa wins Pearl Open: article2. Check out Tadd's Special Site on the Honolulu Advertiser [here].
2-7-2007 Article on Tadd Fujikawa in the Honolulu Advertiser.

2-7-2007 Savaii Eselu on signing day at Kapolei Hale. Go Cal Bears!

2-2-2007 KSSK Coaches of the week: Jade Mullaney and Eddy Gudoy



1-9-2007 Tadd Fujikawa in his 1st Sony Open: 1-10-07, 1-11-07, 1-11-07, 1-12-07, 1-12-07, 1-12-07, 1-13-07, 1-13-07, 1-13-07, 1-13-07, 1-13-07, 1-13-07, 1-14-07 , 1-14-07, 1-14-07, 1-14-07, 1-14-07, Golf 1-14-07 PGA 1-14-07, PGA 1-14-07, ESPN 1-14-07, 1-15-07, 1-15-07, 1-15-07, ESPN 1-15-07, 1-16-07, 1-16-07, SI 1-16-07, 1-17-07, video, 1-17-07, Golf 1-18-07
1-2-2007 Boys Basketball beat Kalaheo: Article 1, 2
12-26-2006 Savaii Eselu First Team All State Football Article here and here
12-19-2006 Savaii Eselu chooses Cal [article 2]
12-19-2006 Tadd Fujikawa makes the cut for Sony Open
12-6-06 Brianna Amian East Player of the Year

11-28-2006 Tadd Fujikawa and other ameateurs take the lead in the John Burns Cup Challenge: Honolulu Advertiser, Star Bulletin.
Amateurs lose cup but Tadd Fujikawa goes undefeated 3-0
11-22-2006 Moanalua Boys Basketball makes news in the Star Bulletin.
11-15-2006 Savaii Eselu makes breaking news in the Honolulu Star Bulletin.
11-7-2006 Varsity blow out Kamehameha Maui in 2nd round State tournament: Honolulu Star-Bulletin or Honolulu Advertiser.
11-6-2006 Varsity pass by Aiea in 1st round State tournament: Honolulu Advertiser.

10-31-2006 Kaleinani Kabalis named Gamebreaker in Honolulu Advertiser.
10-26-2006 Moanalua Varsity beat Kahuku in 3 sets: Honolulu Advertiser or Star-Bulletin
10-24-2006 Advertiser Article on Moanalua's All State Volleyball Player Kaleinani Kabalis HERE

10-25-2006 Moanalua Sophomore Tadd Fujikawa named to the Rolex Junior All-American Second Team.
See Article HERE
10-21-2006 Tadd Fujikawa Wins OCC invitational. See Article HERE Honolulu Advertiser, Star-Bulletin.
10-17-2006 Moanalua Sophomore Tadd Fujikawa Wins Turtle Bay Amatuer. See Article HERE

8-31-2006 Kristina Merkle wins Girls US Army Junior Classic


8-22-2006 Article on Savaii Eselu in the Honolulu Advertiser.


5-16-2006 Congratulations to Coaches Arnold Martinez and Earl Kishimoto for making KSSK's Coach of the week!


5-10-2006 Moanalua Girls Golf wins Team State Championships


5-7-2006 "Moanalua’s Merkle captures Jennie K. The 14-year-old wins by five strokes over 12-year-old Kyung Kim" see Star Bullitin story Here see Advertiser story Here


4-19-2006 Boys Varsity Baseball beat Castle 3-0 Check out score in the Honolulu Advertiser or the Honolulu Star Bulletin.
4-15-2006 Varsity Baseball Kekoa Lee makes Star Bulletin Honor Roll.
4-5-2006 Varsity Baseballwin against Kaiser:7-5. Check it out in the Honolulu Advertiser and in the Star Bulletin.


4-5-2006 Hannah Cho Star Bulletin Athlete of the Week for Water Polo

3.12.2006Tadd Fujikawa Places 3rd in the Hawaii State Amature Championships.


2006 HPLGA 4-Ball Championship- Ted Makalena Golf Course, February 18/19 & 25/26.

2.26.2006 Tadd Fujikawa (above left) & Chan Kim (above right) sealed the deal today with a final round of 5-under par 66 and a tournament total of 14-under par 128. Runner up was the team of Mike Kawate/Roy Nishimoto at 11-under par 131 (67-64) and rounding out the top three, 3 teams tied at 7-under par 135 respectively; Bryan Edwards/Shawn Tanoue (68-67), Ren Frias/Paul Kimura (67-68) and Sam Rodriguez, III/Taylor Shimomura (67-68). Champ-Flight full field final scores now posted click here.
2-9-2006 Moanalua Varsity Girls & Boys Soccer finish 3rd in OIA. Article in Honolulu Star Bulletin on the soccer championships.

2-4-2006 Moanalua Varsity Girls Softball placed 4th overall in the State.Articles on the girls run during states 2.2.06 and the Star Bulletin, & 2.3.06.


12-20-2005 Congratulations to Kaleinani Kabalis for making the HHSAA Volleyball All State First Team
see Advertiser Story Here


12-26-2005 Congratulations to Stanford Leti for making the HHSAA Football All State First Team
see Advertiser Story Here


12-26-2005 Congratulations to Quinton Tang for making the HHSAA Football All State First Team
see Star Bulletin Story Here

12-16,12-17-2005 Moanalua Girls Wrestling capture first place at the Maui Invitational Wrestling Tournament. Boys also do well.
Read the Maui News Story HERE
Finishers
Girls Team- 1st place
Lisa Katsura- 108- 2nd place
Laurel Ramiro- 114- 3rd place
Kuulei NItta- 120- 3rd place
Ariella Ing- 130- 1st place and MVP
Alicia Fu- 155- 1st place
Andrea Reyes- 4th place

Boys Team- 12th place
Joshua Tingman- 112- 4th place
Young Sub Suh- 125- 6th place
Alika Iokia- 140- 6th place
Charles Burd- 189- 5th place

12-14-2005 Quinton Tang and Sarah Robinson make Honolulu Star Bulletin's Athletes of the Week. Stanford Leti and Traci Yoshikawa make their Honor roll.

12-9-2005 HUB All Star Classic: East 6 West 13
Stanford Leti- East Offensive Player of the Game
Quinton Tang- East Defensive Player of the Game



11-30-05 Moanalua Freshman Kristina Merkle Wins her age group at the US Army Junior Golf Invitational on Sunday Nov 28, 2005(the picture is a win last year)


Amateur Team- Top row left to right, Brandon Abreu, Alvin Okada, Jr., Sean Maekawa, Chris Souza, Brandan Kop and Jonathan Ota. Front row left to right, Tadd Fujikawa, Kellen-Floyd Asao, Jarett Hamamoto, Phil Anamizu (Captain), Travis Toyama, Blaine Kimura and Shannon Tanoue.
11-30-05 Tadd Wins all his matches at John A. Burns Challenge Cup
For the Advertiser article go Here
For the 808Golf article go Here

11-24-05 Moanalua Freshman Tadd Fujikawa advances to the finals of the 2005 Polo Junior Golf Classic on Friday Nov 25, 2005
See story Here
Tadd takes 2nd place in the 2005 Polo Junior Golf Classic losing 5 & 3
For information on all of Tadd's career accomplishments go Here
5.18.05 Article on Judoka Derron Maki here

4.22.05 This time of year around the USA hundreds of the top high school football players are invited by Nike to participate in their football clinics/combine at selected sites across America. This year 2 of Moanalua's top players were invited and attended the most competitive combine on the west coast at the University of Southern California on April 17, 2005. Quinton Tang a Jr. who is the conference Defensive Player of the Year and first team all conference linebacker joined Stanford Leti, first team all conference running back at USC. They both did an outstanding job and were tagged 2 of the top players out of 500 who attended. To see photos, highlights and results of their workouts at the combine visit the Moanalua football website at www.moanaluafootball.com.



4.11.05 Moanalua Wrestlers do well at Body Bar Nationals
Ariella Ing places 6th in the Cadet Division, Alumni Clarissa Calibuso places 3rd in the University Division
Other Hawaii Girls do just as well. Get all the results [ here]


3-4-2005 Congratulations to Alicia Fu 155lb State Wrestling Champion
see Advertiser Story Here
see Star Bulletin Story Here

3.13.05 Moanalua Cheerleading HHSAA State Champions 2005
FOR ALL STATE PLAYOFF INFORMATION GO TO THE HHSAA SITE [ here]
Advertiser article [ here]
Star Bulletin article [ here]
HHSAA State Cheer pictures [ here]
3.05.05Moanalua Cheerleading OIA Champions (JV and Varsity)
3.12.05 2005 First Hawaiian Bank Lady Peek Tournament Results:

1st place Hilo, 2nd place Sacred Hearts

1st Hilo
2nd Sacred Hearts
3rd Mid Pacific
4th Moanalua
5th Campbell
6th Nanakuli
7th Kamehameha Maui
8th Waialua

2005 First Hawaiian Bank Lady Peek All Tournament Team:
KISHA KAYA – KAMEHAMEHA MAUI
CHRISTINA DUNN – WAIALUA
DARLYN LIVAE – CAMPBELL
SIERRA NAKEA – NANAKULI
SHERICE AJIFU – MID-PACIFIC
TERINA BLUE – MOANALUA
LYNELLE PARANADA – HILO
SAMANTHA SAITO – SACRED HEARTS

Thank You to First Hawaiian Bank and Mark Taylor

Moanalua Pictures form tournament[here]

3.06.05 Moanalua Girls Wrestling, Danica Kamakana, State Champion. FOR ALL STATE PLAYOFF INFORMATION GO TO THE HHSAA SITE [ here]
3.06.05 Moanalua Girls Wrestling place 4th in the State. FOR ALL STATE PLAYOFF INFORMATION GO TO THE HHSAA SITE [ here]
2.26.05 Moanalua Boys Swimming place 5th in the State. FOR ALL STATE PLAYOFF INFORMATION GO TO THE HHSAA SITE [ here]
The first picture is of Andrew LEster and Kalen Darling in their Start of the 500 yard Freestyle in the finals on Saturday(Andrew is on the left, Kaen has the cap on). Second picture is Andrew with his first for the 200 freestyle. Overall the boys got 5th place. Andrew earned 1st place in both the 200 Freestyle and the 500 Freestyle and Kalen scored 6th in the 200 freestyle and 3rd in the 500 Freestyle. Second highest place out of the OIA teams-Leilehua got 4th.
Here is the link to the results page [here]

2.19.05 Moanalua Girls Soccer place 2nd in the State. FOR ALL STATE PLAYOFF INFORMATION GO TO THE HHSAA SITE [ here]
HHSAA GIRLS SOCCER ALL-T0URNAMENT TEAM
Selected by media 
GK          	Ciana Aiwohi          	Punahou
Def         	Kelsey Baker          	Punahou
Def         	Ayasha Abut            	Moanalua
Def         	Sophie Merrifield   	Punahou
MF          	Lizzy Carlson           	Punahou
MF          	Maris Van Der Lee    	Baldwin
MF          	Marisa Schoen         	Punahou
F            	Tobi Kanehira          	Aiea
F            	Chelsea Arakawa     	Pearl City
F            	Kelsie Look             	Punahou
F            	Sarah Yoro              	Mililani
Most Outstanding Player Kelsey Baker
February 19, 2005

Congratulations to Athletic Director Dana Dias on her new job endevor. Dana will be the Deputy Director of Parks and Recreation for the City and County of Honolulu. Interim AD, Joel Kawachi, will be starting on Jan 24th and looks forward to continuing the great work that Dana has started.

1.18.05 Great Advertiser Article on Moanalua Student Athlete Amanda Fukushima. [here]
        
12.27.04 Moanalua Girls Wrestling 1st Annual Holiday Invitational Duals is a complete success. Results below
           
1st place-Iolani/Punahou, 2nd place-Kahuku, 3rd place-Kamehameha, 4th place-Castro Valley California
More Pictures [here]
12.13.04 Moanalua Student-Athlete Emily King was honored in NY City, on Sunday December 12. She did not win the overall award but did a great job in getting to be one of the top 6 Females in the country. For more information on the award go [here] and to see pictures of the presentation at Moanalua High School go [here] Advertiser article [here]

11.19.04 Moanalua Wrestling does annual community service at Moanalua Elementary School's Fun Fair. See Pictures [here]
11.14.04 Moanalua Girls Varsity Volleyball Place 3rd in the HHSAA State Tournament defeating OIA Champ Kahuku 17-25, 27-25, 25-21. Full Story [here] and [here] Updated Tournament Bracket go [here]

11.13.04Moanalua High School Teachers, Bernie Petterson and Jose Guevara to be inducted into Linfeild College Sports Hall of Fame this Saturday Nov 13. see full story [ here]

11.09.04 Girls Volleyball- Check out the Honolulu Advertiser Story on "Hout has a killer game, with a smile to match" [ here ]

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