Advertiser Staff
Three more girls basketball events will be played this week as teams close in on the start of league play.
The eighth annual Menehune Pre-Season Peek will be played at Moanalua High tomorrow through Saturday; the 11th annual FILA-Lady Tiger Challenge will be played at McKinley High Thursday through Saturday, and the 11th annual Ka Makani/DARE Tip-Off Classic will be played at Hawai‘i Prep in Waimea, Big Island, also Thursday through Saturday.
Only Moanalua is an elimination tournament; the others play set schedules.
 Moanalua: The Pre-Season Peek, sponsored by First Hawaiian Bank, will have host Moanalua and Kalani from the O‘ahu Interscholastic Association Eastern Division; Leilehua and Nanakuli from the OIA West; ‘Iolani and Mid-Pacific from the Interscholastic League of Honolulu’s Division I; and Punahou II and St. Andrew’s from ILH Division II.
Moanalua was undefeated in the 2000 regular season and features talented point guard Amy Kotani. ‘Iolani is led by returning player-of-the-year candidate Monica Tokoro. Leilehua, Nanakuli and Mid-Pacific all competed in last year’s state championship tournament.
Admission is $4 per day (or less for qualifying students), or $10 for a four-day pass.
First round
Tomorrow-Nanakuli vs. Mid-Pacific, 5:30 p.m.
Moanalua vs. St. Andrew’s, 7 p.m.
Thursday-Leilehua vs. ‘Iolani, 5:30 p.m.
Punahou II vs. Kalani, 7 p.m.
McKinley: The tournament uses a "shoot-out" format with O‘ahu vs. the Neighbor Islands. However, the place of some Neighbor Island teams that canceled will be taken by Wai‘anae, whose results will not count in the standings.
Admission is $4 per day (or less for qualifying students).
Thursday
Punahou Division I vs. Wai‘anae, 4 p.m.
University vs. Waiakea, 5:30 p.m.
Kalaheo vs. Kapa‘a, 7 p.m.
McKinley vs. Kealakehe of Kona, 8:30 p.m.
HPA: The six-team event at Castle Gym has teams from three islands.
Thursday
Kohala vs. Waimea of Kaua‘i, 4:30 p.m.
Konawaena vs. Kamehameha, 6 p.m.
Hawai‘i Prep vs. St. Francis of O‘ahu, 7:30 p.m.
MORE GIRLS BASKETBALL
Defensive scheduling: Two-time defending state champion Kamehameha, 2000 runner-up Kalaheo and 1999 runner-up Punahou have managed to avoid playing each other in preseason.
Over the last three years, they have a combined record of 184-19. Either Kamehameha or Punahou has been in the state championship game every season since 1988.
Lady Mustang-FILA Classic: In the set schedule at Kalaheo last week, the Mustangs and Punahou did not meet and ended with 4-0 and 3-0 records, respectively. There were so many outstanding underclassmen that tournament officials selected both an all-tournament team and an all-underclassman team.
(Year in school in parentheses)
All-Tournament team: MVP-Brandy Richardson, Kalaheo (12); Milia Macfarlane, Punahou (12); Erica Tadio, Honoka‘a (11); Nicole Garbin, Baldwin (12); Jodi Nakashima, Roosevelt (12); Heather Gonsalves, Kalaheo (12). Richardson has signed with UC-Santa Barbara, Macfarlane with Hawai‘i and Nakashima with Boise State. Garbin is weighing several offers for soccer.
Underclassmen Team: Bre Carson, Kalaheo (9); Lehua Yap, Nanakuli (10); Rachel Kane, Punahou (10); Kami Kapak¬, Baldwin (9); Amber Lee, McKinley (10); Kami Shigematsu, Honoka‘a (10).
Final standings: Kalaheo 4-0, Punahou 3-0, Baldwin 2-1, McKinley 2-2, Roosevelt 2-2, Honoka‘a 1-2, Maryknoll 1-2, Nanakuli 1-2, Mid-Pacific 1-2, Milikan (Long Beach) 0-4.
Homeless: Waipahu will play no games in its home gym this season because the floor, ventilation system and lighting system are being replaced. They are all "original equipment" from the gym’s birth in 1978, athletic director Keith Morioka said. The gym will reopen in mid-July.
WRESTLING
Girls wrestling continues to grow in Hawai‘i, one of two states that has an all-girls high school championship.
Participation in the state tournament has increased 73 percent since the inaugural tournament four years ago.
There were 140 girls in the state tournament that ended Saturday. The 1999 and 2000 tournaments both drew 133 girls, and there were 81 in the pilot tournament in 1998, according to Wayne Ohashi, wrestling coordinator for the Hawai'i High School Athletic Association.
Texas is the other state with a sanctioned all-girls tournament.
The 36th annual boys tournament last weekend had 280 entries.
CORRECTIONS
Wrong wrestlers: Pearl City’s Dara Ching and Moanalua’s Diane Kau were pictured in Sunday’s Advertiser. Both were misidentified. Ching won the 130-pound title in Saturday’s State Girls Championships at Blaisdell Arena.
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