Former UH Wahine volleyball player, Raeceen Woolford ‘03 is featured in this month’s edition of the ESPN 1420 Magazine. The reigning Miss Honolulu, who just two months ago finished as the third runner-up in the 2008 Miss Hawaii pageant, is looking to pursue a career in women’s health or pediatrics.
Take a look at the rest of the September/October 2008 edition of the ESPN 1420 Magazine online »
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Video highlights from Iolani’s 33-6 win over Damien on Saturday, September 27 at Kozuki Field. The Raiders, currently undefeated in the ILH at 4-0, will take on top-ranked St. Louis on Saturday, October 4 at 7:45pm at Aloha Stadium.
First Video: Senior running back Kellen Imada scores on a 63 yard screen pass from junior quarterback Jarrett Arakawa (his only reception of the game). Imada finished with 129 yards on 18 carries and one touchdown.
Update: The Iolani Football team improved to 4-0 in the ILH after defeating the Damien Monarchs 33-6 on four touchdown passes by junior quarterback Jarrett Arakawa. Two-way standout Kela Marciel caught two passes for 104 yards and two touchdowns (46, 58).
Update: The Iolani Girls Volleyball team upset #1-ranked Kamehameha in three sets (27-25, 23-25, 28-26) to pull into a first place tie in the ILH.
Off to a 3-0 start in league play, the Iolani Football team will take on ILH rival Damien this Saturday in a tough matchup that could decide the Division II title. The Monarchs are currently 2-1 and the leading contender to challenge the Raiders for the crown.
In their previous matchup, Iolani jumped out to 21-0 lead in the first half and held off a late Damien rally in the fourth quarter to earn the 27-21 win.
The game will kickoff at 2:00pm on Saturday, September 27th at Kozuki Stadium on the Iolani campus.
Just a half an hour before kickoff, the Iolani Girls Volleyball team will face the top-ranked and undefeated Kamehameha Warriors in a rematch of last year’s state final.
Iolani (8-1) is currently 2nd in the ILH, one game behind Kamehameha and a half game up on Punahou (7-1). (The Warriors defeated the Buffanblu in three sets on Tuesday evening.)
First serve is set for 1:30pm on Saturday, September 27th at Kekuhaupi’o Gym on the Kamehameha campus.
Two tough opponents. Two big games. Where you gonna go?…
[Photos: Star-Bulletin (above) & Honolulu Advertiser]
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Much like his first days wearing a Cougar uniform four years ago on the Pullman campus, Derrick Low ‘04, a rookie guard with the Sydney Spirit, is learning (the hard way) that young teams often need to struggle before they can succeed.
Through three games in the NBL regular season, the Spirit have yet to break into the win column falling 112-102 to Melbourne, 111-99 to Wollongong and 99-89 to Adelaide.
Low is averaging 17 points, 2 assists, 1.3 rebounds and 1 steal per game in 36+ minutes of play, but has struggled somewhat percentage-wise shooting just 35.1% from the field and 26.3% from three-point range.
The Spirit play their next game on Saturday in a rematch against the Adelaide 36ers who defeated them just two days ago in Canberra.
[Photo: The Daily Telegraph]
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After advancing to the championship game of the conference tournament last season, the Occidental Tigers are looking to take the next step forward this season and win it all. The team returns several core players including three Iolani alumni - sophomore forward Jesi Sasaki ‘07 (shown), the 2007 SCIAC Player-of-the-Year; 2nd Team All-SCIAC defender Marci Kang ‘06; backup defender Jamie Souza ‘06.
The Tigers are currently 1-1 in conference (1-3 overall) with a 5-0 win over Whitter College and a 3-2 loss to the University of La Verne. Sasaki and Kang have started in all four games for the Tigers while Souza has appeared in three of the four with one start.
Kila Ka’aihue ‘02 hit his first major league home run on Saturday evening in the bottom of the 7th inning against the Chicago White Sox (who are attempting to clinch a playoff spot). Watch the video »
In the majors, Ka’aihue has appeared in 10 games for the Royals and is batting .278 (5-18). Kansas City is out of the playoff hunt and has five games remaining this season.
Jon Takamura ‘06, a backup linebacker and special teams player at Harvard, recorded 5 tackles in a come from behind win over Holy Cross on Friday night at Harvard Stadium.
Down for most of the game, the Crimson scored three touchdowns in the final quarter to edge the Crusaders 25-24 and improve to 1-0 in Ivy League play.
Note: One year ago, Holy Cross connected on a 40-yard touchdown pass with 19 seconds remaining to pull out a dramatic win over the Crimson in their season opener.
[Photo: GoCrimson.com]
Update: Iolani finished 3rd in the Bronze bracket and 19th overall (4-3).
Update: The Iolani Girls Volleyball team finished 3rd in pool play (1-2) and will compete in the Bronze qualifying round on Saturday. The Raiders lost to nationally ranked La Costa Canyon 25-21, 25-22 and later fell to Liberty 21-25, 25-22, 12-25.
The Iolani Girls Volleyball team, ranked No.39 nationally in the ESPN Rise Fab 50, opens pool play today at the Durango Classic in Las Vegas, Nevada.
The Durango Classic, now in its 14th year, features 32 teams from across the country, many of the ranked nationally. This year, 13 of 32 participating teams are ranked in ESPN Rise Fab 50 with four in the top ten.
Iolani has been been placed in Pool C along with La Costa Canyon, Liberty and host Durango. La Costa Canyon is currently 2-0 and the highest ranked team in the pool at No.8. The Raiders will play three games today at 1:00pm, 2:00pm and 4:00pm (HST) and need to finish in the top two to advance to the Championship Qualifying Round on Saturday morning.
Side Note: Kamehameha, the top ranked team in Hawaii, is also competing in the Durango Classic. They are currently ranked No. 33 in the ESPN Rise Fab 50.
[Photo: Honolulu Advertiser]
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Not to be outdone by his older brother Kila who was called up to the Majors just over two weeks ago, Kala Ka’aihue ‘03 was named the Most Valuable Player of the playoffs after helping his team capture the Southern League Championship.
Ka’aihue, a first baseman for the Mississippi Braves (AA), batted .429 in the championship series to go along with three home runs and six RBI in five games against the Carolina Mudcats.
On the season, Ka’aihue got off to slow start (batting just .184 in April) but finished hitting .274 with 23 doubles, 2 triples, 14 home runs and 61 RBI.
According to the Honolulu Advertiser, he is hoping to play winter baseball in either the Dominican Republic or Venezuela, but could also end up back home with the Honolulu Sharks of Hawaii Winter Baseball League, which opens Sept. 27.
[Photo: Honolulu Advertiser]
Mike Hirokawa ‘06 (shown), a junior wide receiver/running back for the CMS (Claremont-Mudd-Scripps) Stags, scored three touchdowns in a 41-17 win over visiting Lewis & Clark College. Hirokawa caught three passes for 66 yards and two touchdowns and rushed for 23 yards on three carries with one touchdown.
Also on the Stag roster are recent graduates Landon Patoc ‘06, Ronnie Hirokawa ‘08 and Justin Yamamoto ‘08.
Utah running back Raynold Stowers ‘04 made the most of his first opportunity to carry the ball this season, rushing for 17 yards on 5 carries and scoring a 2-yard touchdown late in the fourth quarter in a 58-10 win over Utah State.
Utah is currently 3-0 and ranked No. 20 in the latest AP and USA Today polls. Next up for the Utes is Mountain West Conference opponent Air Force who is also undefeated at 3-0.
[Photo: CMSAthletics.com]
To commemorate the 25th Anniversary of the Iolani Classic, Nike has designed a limited edition Air Force 25 sneaker to be distributed to all participating coaches as well as to the people who have supported the Classic over the years. (Store availability has yet to be determined.)
The teams participating in the 2008 Iolani Prep Classic include perennial California powerhouse Fairfax, national champion contender Oak Hill, legendary basketball school DeMatha, former champion LeFlore, longtime attendee Montrose (coached by Stu Vetter), Putnam City from Oklahoma (features the ESPNU #1 recruit in the Class of 2009, Xavier Henry) and Whitney Young of Chicago (Michael Jordan’s son’s team).
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Derrick Low ‘04, a 6-1 guard for the Sydney Spirit, scored 13 points in a 112-102 loss to the Melbourne Tigers to open the 2008-09 NBL season. The Tigers are considered to be among the top teams in the league and expected to contend for a title.
Stat Line: 6-20 (30%) from the field, 0-5 from three, 1-4 from the freethrow line, 1 rebound, 1 assist, 1 steal, 2 turnovers
The Spirit play their next game on Saturday, September 20th against the Wollongong Hawks.
Read an article about Low from the Sydney Morning Herald »
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In his third appearance as a pinch hitter for the Kansas City Royals, Kila Ka’aihue ‘02 recorded his 3rd hit of the season and raised his major league batting average to .429 (3-7).
Since receiving the call, Ka’aihue has seen limited time on the field and at the plate, sharing at-bats with the team’s three other first baseman. Thus far, he has started just one game (going 1-4) and has appeared in three games as a pinch hitter, striking out once and batting 1-1 in each of his other two opportunities.
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St. Mary’s sophomore setter Kapua Kamana’o ‘07 (right) and junior middle blocker Megan Burton ‘06 (left) are in town this week to compete in the Rainbow Wahine Invitational which runs through Saturday.
The Gaels entered the 4-team tournament with an undefeated 6-0 record, but fell to the No.10-ranked Rainbow Wahine yesterday evening in straight sets, 22-25, 16-25, 8-25.
Kamana’o recorded 27 assists and 5 digs while Burton put down 4 kills.
St. Mary’s will face the No.9-ranked Washington Huskies tonight and the winless Pacific Tigers on Saturday. Both games will begin at 5:00pm Hawaii time.
More News: The duo along with Word-of-Life graduate Shanteal Satele were featured in a recent article on the St. Mary’s Athletic Website. Read the article »
[Photo: SMCGaels.com]
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Of the 70 Hawaii high school seniors named as semifinalists in the 2009 National Merit Scholarship Program, 36 were from Iolani, a new record for the school. Punahou, by comparison, had the second highest total with 23 semifinalists.
More than 1.5 million high school juniors in nearly 21,000 high schools entered the 2009 program by taking the 2007 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test, which served as an initial screen of program entrants.
Semifinalists were named based on their scores and the total number is proportional to the state’s percentage of the national total of graduating seniors.
The previous record for the total number of National Semifinalist in a single year was 33 - held by the classes of 1990, 1991 and 2006. Last year’s graduating Class of 2008 had 32.
Former UH standout Bobby Nash ‘03 has been in Japan for the last two months helping to promote his new team, the Shiga Lakestars of the Basketball Japan (BJ) League. The Lakestars are one of two expansion teams to join the league in 2008-09 so team officials have been active in marketing their new club - organizing meet-and-greets, participating in charity auctions, holding youth clinics, etc.
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Nash will make his professional debut on October 11th when the Lakestars take on the Osaka Evessa in the BJ League season opener. (Click the link for more photos)
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