Iolani Alumni

Four Iolani seniors will be playing at the college level next season after making commitments to compete at Division I universities yesterday, the first day of the early signing period.

From Iolani.org: “David Fink signed a National Letter of Intent to play golf at Oregon State. Chelsea Hardin signed a National Letter of Intent to play volleyball at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. Maile Scarpino also made a verbal commitment to continue her academic career and volleyball career at Hofstra University in New York.”

Two-sport standout, Breland Almadova verbally committed to play baseball at the University of Hawaii. The 6-1, 180 pound outfielder was an Advertiser All-State honorable mention selection last season. His father Brian played football at UH from 1980 to 1982.

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Junior QB Jarrett Arakawa completed 19 of 29 passes for 302 yards and three touchdowns to help the Iolani Football team defeat Damien 27-21 in their first ILH regular season matchup. The Raiders built a 21-0 lead at half and hung on in the final minutes as the Monarchs cut the lead to six points late in the fourth.

Senior running back Kellen Imada carried the ball 22 times for 97 yards and Brandon Ball led all receivers with five catches for 118 yards and one touchdown.

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More Football: The Intermediate Football team fell to Kamehameha 14-13 on a late touchdown by the Warriors with under a minute to play in the fourth quarter.

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The #2 ranked Iolani Girls Volleyball team (5-0) hung on for a 16-25, 25-10, 27-25 victory over Word of Life in their toughest ILH matchup thus far in the 2008 season. Junior Mahina Haina and senior Chelsea Hardin led the way for the Raiders with 14 and 10 kills respectively while I’isha Keliikoa and Alissa Youart contributed six kills apiece.

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Iolani freshman Lorens Chan captured the Barbers Point Invitational with a final round 73 to defeat runner up Matthew Ma ‘02 by one stroke.

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Iolani School 8th-grader, Lorens Chan ‘12, shot a final round 70 to finish in 2nd place at the 2008 Hickam Invitational, just one stroke behind winner Alex Ching, a Punahou senior.

The 13-year-old got off to a slow start yesterday afternoon, bogeying the first hole, but finished the round strong, birdieing three of his final five holes. His three-day total of 213 (74-69-70) was good enough for sole possession of 2nd place - a slight improvement over his third place finish last year.

Next month, Chan will be competing in the 100th Manoa Cup which begins on June 16th at Oahu Country Club. He was a semifinalist in 2007.

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Longtime history teacher and former girls’ soccer coach Jeff Moses, or Mr. Moses to many, recorded an ace on the 154-yard, par-3 sixth hole at Pearl Country Club on July 26th. The miraculous (I mean skillful) feat was the first of his golf career and the first ever in the 16 year history of the Eddie Hamada Golf Tournament.

For his efforts, Mr. Moses was awarded with a $5,000 cash prize, half of which will be donated back to the Eddie Hamada Scholarship Fund, which the tournament supports.

NOTE: One month earlier, alumnus Glenn Inouye ‘69 recorded a hole-in-one of his own at the Iolani Alumni Association Golf Tournament at Hawaii Prince Golf Course on June 29th.

An 8th grader at Iolani School, Lorens Chan made his run at becoming the youngest player ever to win the prestigious Manoa Cup, playing his way into the semifinals before falling to the eventual champion. The 13-year-old was the talk of the tournament as he advanced to the quarterfinals with a 6 and 5 win over Maryknoll graduate Ryan Hironaka, holing an eagle-3 from 245 yards on the 13th hole to end the day.

In the quarterfinal round, Chan took down defending champion Jonathan Ota 3 and 1 to move on, but fell in the semifinals to Kurt Nino (2-up) who went on to win the title.

Iolani junior David Fink also advanced to the quarterfinals, but was defeated in 19 holes by Edward Stenftenagel who lost to Nino in the finals.

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