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Their places in next week’s state tournament are already secure, but the four teams still playing in the O‘ahu Interscholastic Association basketball season will be no less intense tomorrow.
In OIA Tournament semifinal games tomorrow, Mililani (9-2) plays at Western Division champion Leilehua (10-0) and Kahuku (9-3) travels to Eastern champion Kalaheo (11-0). Both games will start about 7:30 p.m., following 6 o’clock junior varsity semifinals.
On Thursday at Blaisdell Arena, tomorrow’s varsity winners play at 7 p.m. for the OIA championship and the league’s seeded berth in the state tournament; the losers play at 5 for third place. The junior varsity championship game will be at 3:30.
Kalaheo and Leilehua won their quarterfinal games by 27 and 25 points, respectively, both maintaining the firepower of about 70 points per game that they demonstrated during the regular season.
Mililani also won handily but Kahuku just got by Pearl City.
Kalaheo and Leilehua remained 1-2 last night in the weekly state poll of coaches and media by HawaiiSportsNetwork.com. Kalaheo (22-1 overall) has been No. 1 all season and Leilehua (16-4 overall) moved ahead of ‘Iolani onto the second rung last week.
Thursday’s championship game will be telecast live at 7 p.m. on Oceanic Cable channel 16.
O‘ahu Interscholastic Association
Boys Basketball Championship Tournament
Varsity
First round (Thursday, Feb. 8)
Kailua 37, ‘Aiea 34
Mililani 60, Farrington 46
Radford 56 vs. Moanalua 25
Kahuku 77, Campbell 57
Quarterfinals (Friday, Feb. 9)
Mililani 58, Kaimuki 42
Leilehua 71, Kailua 46
Kahuku 52, Pearl City 48
Kalaheo 69, Radford 42
Semifinals
Tomorrow, 7:30 p.m.
Mililani (9-2) at Leilehua (10-0)
Kahuku (9-3). at Kalaheo (11-0)
Finals
Thursday at Blaisdell Arena
Third-place game (semifinal losers), 5 p.m.
Championship game (semifinal winners), 7 p.m.
Junior Varsity
Semifinals
Tomorrow, 6 p.m.
Mililani vs. Farrington at Leilehua
Radford vs. Pearl City at Kalaheo
Championship
Thursday, 3:30 p.m. at Blaisdell Arena
Tomorrow’s winners
Admission: Tomorrow — $5 general admission, $3 qualifying students and children kindergarten to eighth grade. Thursday at Blaisdell Arena: $5.50 general admission, $3.50 qualifying students and children kindergarten to eighth grade.
Parking: Free at school sites, $3 at Blaisdell Arena.
TV: Championship game live on Oceanic Cable channel 16.
Four teams reaching semifinals qualify for state tournament Feb. 21-24 on O‘ahu.
ILH
 States at stake: The mini-tournament to determine the Interscholastic League of Honolulu’s third entrant in next week’s state tournament starts tonight.
The third through seventh place teams in Division I and Hawai‘i Baptist, the small-school champion of Division II, will play. Champion ‘Iolani (11-1) and second-place Punahou (10-3) have already earned the first two state berths.
Tonight at St. Louis’ McCabe Gym, Maryknoll (2-10) plays Mid-Pacific (2-10) at 6 o’clock and Damien (2-10) meets Hawai‘i Baptist (11-5 in Division II) at 7:30.
On Thursday at Punahou’s Hemmeter Fieldhouse, Kamehameha (7-5) plays the winner of Damien-HBA at 5:30 and St. Louis (9-4) plays the winner of Maryknoll-Mid-Pacific at 7.
Thursday’s winners vie for the state berth Friday at 7 p.m. at ‘Iolani.
NEIGHBOR ISLANDS
Titles at stake: Waimea (5-3) and Kapa‘a (5-3) play off at 7 o’clock tonight for the Kaua‘i championship and state berth.
Honoka‘a (12-0) meets Waiakea (10-2) for the Big Island Interscholastic Federation Tournament championship on Friday at 7 p.m. at Hilo civic auditorium.
Honoka‘a won the regular-season championship and if Waiakea should defeat the Dragons Friday, the teams will return to Hilo civic Saturday at 7 p.m. to decide the overall title.
Both teams earned state tournament berths in tournament semifinals on Saturday. Honoka‘a eliminated 2000 state champion Hilo, 66-60, and Waiakea terminated Kealakehe, the Kona school with its first senior class, 44-38
Maui always arranges its schedules so the best teams meet on the final day of the season. No exception this year as Maui (12-2) plays at Baldwin (12-2) Thursday at 7 p.m.
Baldwin already earned a state berth by winning the first half with a 7-1 record, but Maui leads the second half at 6-0 and Baldwin is 5-1 with a tough game at Lahainaluna (9-4) tonight.
Friday is the tentative playoff date, if necessary.
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