Coming up
Compiled by Dennis Anderson
Advertiser Staff Writer
Today
OIA girls basketball: Kalaheo at McKinley. If No. 1-ranked Kalaheo wins its 45th straight Eastern Division game against the last East school to beat the Mustangs (in 1997), Kalaheo clinches a No. 1 seed in the OIA championship tournament and at least a tie for the divisional title. ... Moanalua at Farrington, with postseason implications for Menehune. . . . Nanakuli at Leilehua matches 5-1 teams. All games about 7:15.
Kaua'i girls basketball: Waimea at Kapa'a (both 2-1) for spot in league championship game next Tuesday.
Big Island girls basketball: Konawaena (3-0) plays at Honoka'a (3-0) at 7 tonight in the game that probably will decide the Northern Division championship.
OIA baseball: The round-robin season, packed into eight days since the teachers' strike ended, concludes today. In the East, Kaiser (7-1-1) plays Roosevelt (6-3) at Stevenson Intermediate in Makiki. In the wild, wild West, Leilehua (5-3) at 'Aiea (6-2) and Mililani (6-2) at Pearl City (5-3) are crucial matchups as six teams fight for four OIA Tournament berths.
Thursday
OIA basketball: 'Aiea at Radford for Western Division championship, about 7:15. . . . Kahuku must win at Roosevelt or bid aloha to postseason dreams, also 7:15.
ILH basketball: Before the teachers' strike and the reduction of the state girls basketball field from 12 to eight teams, Iolani looked like a good bet for the ILH's third spot, giving two-time league scoring champion Monica Tokoro a statewide audience to showcase her skills in her senior year. But now the ILH gets only two berths. Punahou has clinched one and Kamehameha — which has lost to no ILH team except Punahou in the past three years — is hungrily eyeing the other. Iolani thinks it can climb the mountain. It begins the climb tonight at 6:30 at McCabe Gym against Sacred Hearts or St. Francis, each of which started this week with state tournament dreams of its own.
Maui baseball: Baldwin plays Maui in the winners' bracket final of the league championship tournament, 6:30 at Iron Maehara Stadium.
OIA track and field: Qualifying events at Mililani, 4 p.m.
Friday
Maui girls basketball: Round-robin champion Baldwin and Seabury Hall play for the tournament championship at War Memorial Gym at 7 p.m. If Seabury wins, they do it all again Saturday at Baldwin. At stake — Maui's one state berth.
OIA girls basketball: Farrington at Roosevelt, Leilehua at Radford, 7:30, with playoff positions at stake.
OIA baseball: Four teams from each division cross over by seed for the first round of the championship tournament.
Saturday
Golf: First of this spring's eight abbreviated state championships, condensed from three days to one because of the teachers' strike, will be played on Maui, girls at Ka'anapali South and boys at Kapalua Village. Both will be 36-holes, morning/afternoon tournaments. Waiakea is defending champion in both boys and girls.
OIA track and field: Championships, a 5-hour-plus meet, starting at 2 p.m. at Mililani.
OIA girls basketball: First round of eight-team championship tournament at gyms of higher seeds.
Big Island girls basketball: A four-team playoff for the championship begins at the Northern Division winner's gym.
OIA baseball: Semifinals at home site of higher seeds, four teams left for three state berths.
Big Island baseball: Waiakea (6-0) can clinch its second straight title at home against Konawaena, 1 p.m.
Neighbor Island track and field: Big Island at Konawaena, first running event, 3 p.m.; Maui at War Memorial Stadium, 5:30 p.m.; Kaua'i at Kapa'a High, daytime.
OIA judo: Divisional championships, West at Pearl City, East at McKinley, 10:30 a.m.
Neighbor Island tennis: Big Island individual championships at Hilton Mauna Kea, 9 a.m. Kaua'i state qualifying at Kiahuna.
Sunday
Baseball: The Big Island completes round-robin season with three games. In the Maui Interscholastic League, if Moloka'i is playing in the tournament championship game, it will be played at 12:30 p.m. at Iron Maehara Stadium. If two Maui schools are playing, it will be Monday at 4 p.m., same place.
Monday
OIA baseball: Championship (7 p.m.) and third-place (4:30) games at Hans L'Orange Field in Waipahu.
OIA tennis: Singles and doubles championship and third-place matches, 4 p.m. at University of Hawai'i.
ILH girls basketball: Some serious dreams will live and die at McCabe Gym in the final game of the tournament to determine the ILH's second entry in state tournament, 6 p.m. The season will end for one Top 10 team.
