Kahuku's Hirkley Latu, Keala Santiago and Bradlee Anae all signed their letters of intent in high school in 2016. Latu is in the process of transferring from BYU while Santiago is at Utah with Anae, who is now a fourth-year senior and a first-team, All-Pac-12 defensive lineman. Photo by Nick Abramo/Star-Advertiser. The Hawaii Grown Report returns for another year at the Honolulu Star-Advertiser starting in Wednesday’s newspaper with a profile on Utah senior Bradlee Anae, a fi

My son and I were privileged to be able to get on the Aloha Stadium turf last Saturday for the Polynesian Bowl. In it's second year the Polynesian Bowl is becoming one of the premier post high school all-star games in the country. Sponsored by the Polynesian Football Hall of Fame the game showcases high school seniors of Polynesian ancestry from around the country as well as some selected players not of Polynesian ancestry. As the host of this all-star game the State of Hawai

SAMSON REED - DL - Commited to the University of Virginia ENOCH NAWAHINE - RB - Recently offered by Boise State University FATU ATUAIA - LB - Still examining his options #PrideoftheNorthShore #GoBigRed #RR4L [ALL IMAGES FROM the POLYNESIAN BOWL postings] #SamsonReed #EnochNawahine #FatuAtuaia

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Kahuku head coach Makoa Freitas coached up running back Enoch Nawahine during a game against Campbell. Photo by Jamm Aquino/Star-Advertiser. In Tuesday’s Honolulu Star-Advertiser, Paul Honda wrote about the top 10 prep stories of 2017. You can read it here. Here’s a deeper look at one of the 10 stories. 2. Kahuku coaching carousel continues Some call it a coaching carousel, but it’s more like basic protocol these days for that famous athletic program on the North Shore. Perha

Check out our 2017 Division I ALL HAWAII team selections as determined by ScoringLive: 1st Team 2nd Team Micah Mariteragi OL Sr. Duke Heffernan UT So. Fatu Atuaia LB Sr. Jared "Nalu" Emerson DB Jr. Honorable Mention Sol-Jay Maiava QB So. Toalei Lefau RB Jr. Cire Loo OL Sr. Thorton Alapa UT Jr. Samson Kapule-Si'ilata DL Sr. Alex Fonoimoana-Vaomu DB So. Lauina Falatea UT Sr. Kaonohi Kaniho Rtnr So. Makoa Freitas Coach See the re

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The appetizer was so very good that it seemed quite possible that the main course would turn out to be bland. But instead, the third game of Saturday’s tripleheader at Aloha Stadium was a crazy-good show-stopper for football connoisseurs and an incredible capper for Hawaii’s football-hungry fans, who got an extra-sweet treat in the first game of the day — Lahainaluna’s 75-69 seven-overtime win over Konawaena in the D-II championship game. With a kickoff at 9:58 p.m. Saturday,

For the third year in a row, the high school football season will end with a clash between the two most storied prep football programs in the state. No. 1 Saint Louis (9-0) and its 14 Prep Bowls and four state titles faces No. 2 Kahuku (11-1), which has won eight state championships. Kahuku dominated the Crusaders, 39-14, in 2015 before Saint Louis came back to win last season’s showdown, 30-14. Looks like we will start at 9:55 p.m. Saint Louis 31, Kahuku 28 OFFICIAL BOX SCOR

Kahuku head coach Makoa Freitas coached up running back Enoch Nawahine during a game against Campbell. Photo by Jamm Aquino/Star-Advertiser. Kahuku football coach Makoa Freitas is busy in the morning, busy in the afternoon, busy at night. He does all he can, and that means time is precious. Two days before the showdown — the rematch — with defending state champion Saint Louis, he chatted with Hawaii Prep World about being a first-year head coach facing veteran Cal Lee and Sai

Kahuku's seniors said goodbye to their home field on Friday night. Dennis Oda / Star-Advertiser Things were pretty relaxed before Kahuku football practice Friday afternoon. But don’t let that lack of intense emotion fool you. Behind the smiles and easy talk from the leaders on the field is an inner mechanism just waiting to go off into a controlled rage on cue tomorrow. Perhaps it will be timed to set off when the sea of red fans at Aloha Stadium do their first tomahawk chop

Senior RB Enoch Nawahine earned Offensive Player of the Year honors while junior LB Miki Ah You led the Red Raiders' defense. CJ Caraang | SL All-OIA Division I-Blue Conference selections Selected by ScoringLive staff Offensive Player of the Year: Enoch Nawahine, Kahuku (SR) Defensive Player of the Year: Miki Ah You, Kahuku (JR) Coach of the Year: Darren Johnson, Campbell FIRST TEAM OFFENSE QB: Krenston Kaipo, Campbell (JR) RB: Enoch Nawahine, Kahuku (SR) RB: Rico Rosar

Kahuku’s Alex Fonoimoana-Vaomu, bottom, and Miki Ah You upend Mililani’s Kilifi Malepeai in last week's OIA Championship game. STEVEN ERLER / SPECIAL TO THE STAR-ADVERTISER The deeper in the season they go, the Kahuku Red Raiders are stretching, growing, expanding into a new creation. The OIA championship win over Mililani was an instant classic, an epic night that forced Big Red to dig deep. A resilient front seven of Mililani challenged Sol-Jay Maiava and his offensive unit

Kahuku’s Duke Heffernan caught the game-winning TD pass as Waianae’s Kanai Mauga closed in on the play. Photo by Bruce Asato/Star-Advertiser. When Sol-Jay Maiava was struggling on Friday night — whether with his command or his ankle — the Kahuku quarterback’s focus turned to family. “i just thought of my mom, that’s about it,” Maiava said. A week after Maiava threw a game-winning touchdown late in a shootout victory over Mililani in the OIA Division I championship game, the s