Kamehameha, Punahou take track and field titles

By Wes Nakama
Advertiser Staff Writer

Kamehameha's Nick Frazier won the 400 in 50.35 seconds, the 100 in 11.13 and the 200 in 22.67, and was on a winning relay team. Photos by Eugene Tanner • The Honolulu Advertiser

Pippa Macdonald of Punahou anchored the girls 4x100 and won individual titles at 100 and 800 meters.

Word of Life's Careena Onosai won the shot put at 35-1 1/2 and the discus at 123-8.

Frazier, a junior, ran in five events and won four gold medals and one silver. He won the 100-meter dash with a time of 11.13 seconds, the 200 in 22.67, and the 400 in 50.35. Frazier also ran the third leg for the Warriors' runner-up 4x100 relay team, and anchored their winning 4 x400 relay team.

That last victory clinched a close win in the team standings for Kamehameha, which scored 87 points to Punahou's 82. Iolani (72) finished third.

"We gave it everything we had," Frazier said. "We didn't leave anything out there."

Frazier said teammate Sam Wescoatt, running the third leg in the 4x400 relay, was the key factor in that title-clinching race.

"That's the guy right there," said Frazier, pointing to Wescoatt. "The 4x400 is always a key race, and he's the one who gave us the lead. I just tried to maintain it."

Wescoatt also won the 800 with a time of 1 minute, 59.45 seconds.

Frazier was well ahead of the pack in the 100, 200 and 400. His 11.13 in the 100 was his fastest electronic time, having run a hand-timed 11-flat in the past.

"In the 200, I was tired, and in the 400, I felt like I ran slow," Frazier said. "I ran five races, so I'm pretty tired."

Frazier won the 400 and 800 last year as a sophomore.

Ian Perry of Punahou was the only other boy to win multiple individual events last night. He took the long jump with a leap of 21 feet, 4 inches, and the triple jump with a mark of 44-5?.

In the girls competition, Killam and Macdonald each ran in four races and came away with four gold medals. Killam won the 200 with a time of 26.64, the 400 in 59.10, and also ran the third leg in the Buffanblu's 4x100 and the anchor in their record-setting 4x400 team, which posted a time of 4:01.08.

"My 400 time was a personal record, and winning the 200 was great, too, because I usually don't do that," said Killam, a senior. "And the 4x400, that was our first time as a group, so we weren't sure how we'd do. But the timing was there."

Macdonald, who won the state cross country championship as a freshman, won the 100 last night in a time of 13.09. She also captured the 800 with a time of 2:20.22, and was a member of the Buffanblu's 4x100 and 4x400 relay teams.

Punahou won the team title with 101 points, over Iolani (86).

The other multiple-event individual girls winner was Word of Life freshman Careena Onosai, who won the shot put with a mark of 35 feet, 1? inches, and the discus with a throw of 123-8.

"I was really shocked, because this is only my second year (in shot put and discus)," Onosai said. "I didn't know I would win ILH varsity."

Onosai also spent this season leading Word of Life's varsity basketball team by averaging about 20 points per game, including a 37-point outing.

"We'd practice basketball at 6 in the morning, and then practice track at 4:30 (p.m.) at Moanalua because we don't have our own track," Onosai said. "Basketball just ended on Tuesday, so we've had some long days."

Onosai's father, Joe, was a standout football player for Pac-Five and the University of Hawai'i in the 1980s. But Careena said she already has an edge on her dad in track and field.

"He did the shot put and discus," Careena said, "but he wasn't that good."