Advertiser Staff
The two best girls high school basketball teams in the state last year will play host to multiteam events this week.
Two-time defending state champion Kamehameha, which extended its winning streak to 33 straight last night, will join five other teams in its Kekuhaupi‘o Gym for the 2001 Imua Challenge tomorrow through Saturday.
Ten teams, including Millikan of Long Beach, Calif., will play in the sixth annual Kalaheo Lady Mustangs/FILA Basketball Classic today through Saturday at Kalaheo in Kailua. Each team plays three or four of the other nine.
 Kamehameha: The set schedule has each team playing three of the other five. Kamehameha plays Kaimuki at 6 p.m. tomorrow, Moanalua at 7:30 p.m. Friday and ‘Aiea at 7:30 p.m. Saturday. The other games tomorrow are Moanalua vs. Sacred Hearts at 4 p.m. and Hawai‘i Prep vs. ‘Aiea at 7:30 p.m.
Kamehameha is showing no sign of weakening despite losing three all-state players from last season. In their first game, at Nanakuli on Friday, the Warriors held Nanakuli without a basket until 3:19 left in the third quarter. At the start of the fourth quarter the score was 31-8. Last night they defeated Leilehua in their home debut.
Kamehameha’s future looks as bright as its present. The Warrior junior varsity led Nanakuli 32-0 at halftime Friday.
Kalaheo: The host Mustangs meet Mid-Pacific at 3:30 p.m. today, Baldwin at 8 p.m. tomorrow, Honoka‘a at 8 p.m. Friday and Millikan at 7:30 p.m. Saturday.
The rest of today’s schedule at Kalaheo is Maryknoll vs. McKinley at 5 p.m., Roosevelt vs. Millikan at 6:30 p.m. and Punahou vs. Nanakuli at 8 p.m.
Baldwin and Honoka‘a make their debuts tomorrow.
Kalaheo opened its season impressively also, winning three games in the Maui High tournament last week by a total of 88 points: 76-38 over Lahainaluna, 48-18 over Hilo and 46-26 over ‘Iolani in the championship game on Saturday. Two-time state Player of the Year Brandy Richardson scored 51 points in three games in less than normal playing time.
The Mustangs supported Richardson with 16 3-point baskets, including seven each by senior Nicole Furtado and freshman Bre Carson.
BASEBALL
Kitamura tournament: The 21st annual Mid-Pacific Institute/Richard Kitamura tournament will be Thursday through Sunday at Mid-Pac, Ala Wai and Joey DeSa fields.
In tomorrow’s opening round, Marin Catholic of California plays at Mid-Pacific, Punahou meets Leilehua at Ala Wai and Damien plays Mililani at DeSa, all at 3:30 p.m. Parkview Baptist of Baton Rouge, La., goes against Kamehameha at 6 p.m. at Ala Wai.
Winners play Friday at Ala Wai and Mid-Pac and the championship game will be at Ala Wai Saturday at 6 p.m.
Maui tournament: Ten teams from five leagues on four islands will play in the Maui High School Baseball Tournament today through Saturday at Iron Maehara Stadium in Wailuku. A home-run derby is planned tomorrow.
Today, Maui plays King Kekaulike at 5 p.m. and Kaiser plays Waimea at 7:30 p.m.
Tomorrow’s schedule is Hilo vs. St. Anthony, 11 a.m.; Baldwin vs. the winner of Waimea-Kaiser at 1:30 p.m.; ‘Iolani vs. Waiakea at 4 p.m.; the home run derby at 6:30 p.m., and Pearl City vs. the winner of Maui-King Kekaulike at 7:30 p.m.
Winners play winners and losers play losers on Friday and Saturday.
Admission is $2 per day or $5 for four-day pass.
Quick start: St. Louis produced plenty of pop in its debut under new coach Dean Sato, outscoring three opponents 38-4 in winning the annual Joey DeSa Memorial Tournament last week. The Crusaders pounded Mid-Pacific, 11-4, in the championship game Saturday.
Kamehameha blasted 1999 and 2000 state champion Moloka‘i, 12-3, for third place. Roosevelt and Kailua won consolation finals.
Leading the Crusaders is a homecoming for Sato, a 1977 St. Louis graduate who was an All-Interscholastic League of Honolulu second baseman. He was a varsity assistant at St. Louis about five years ago and for two years assisted his brother, Allan, the head coach at Hawai‘i Pacific University.
Dean Sato, 41, resides in ‘Aiea. He has two sons who are baseball players at St. Louis.
Most recently, he was assistant softball coach at Kamehameha.
WRESTLING
Trust me, it’s a tie: The girls wrestling championship of the Interscholastic League of Honolulu changed hands for the third time in four days yesterday. Now, and forever, it is a tie between Pac-Five and Kamehameha, each with 95 points. Punahou was third with 89.
A scoring error was found in a 114-pound semifinal match, in which Kim Tomasa of Pac-Five won by "superior decision," 20-10. That gave Pac-Five an extra point and a co-title.
The team results reported Friday night were corrected incorrectly in scores reported yesterday.
SOCCER
Knocked out: Pearl City’s boys were No. 4 in the West region of the National Soccer Coaches Association of America’s Winter Rankings before they were taken down by Hilo and ‘Iolani, both on 1-0 scores, in the state championships.
Charger senior Bobby Shinn, O‘ahu’s leading goal scorer, suffered his second concussion in 15 days in a collision during the first half of the Hilo game and did not play the rest of the state tournament. "It wasn’t only Bobby’s left foot and long throws that we missed, but his team leadership on the field," coach Scott Keopuhiwa said.
Nine Sun Belt states play high school soccer in the winter; the rest play in the fall.
BASKETBALL
Kalaheo No. 1: All 59 coaches and media members voting in the HawaiiSportsNetwork.com’s state poll gave the No. 1 ranking to Kalaheo after the Mustangs completed a 27-1 season by winning the Hawai‘i High School Athletic Association championship Saturday night.
 ‘Iolani, which lost to Kalaheo 68-60 in the final game, and Honoka‘a were second and third, as they had been going into the state tournament.
Leilehua climbed one rung and St. Louis two based on their performances in the championships. Kahuku jumped from an also-ran to eighth in the final poll.
Kalaheo won the HHSAA title for the third time since 1984. Coach Pete Smith has taken the Mustangs to the final four 13 times, also taking four second places, five thirds and one fourth.
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