Posted on: Sunday, August 22, 2004
Pac-Five holds off McKinley in Bray opener
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By Wes Nakama
Advertiser Staff Writer
The Pac-Five football team held off McKinley last night at Aloha Stadium, 27-26, after stopping the Tigers just inches short of the goal line on a two-point conversion with 41 seconds remaining in the opening game of the Father Bray Classic.
Eugene Tanner • The Honolulu Advertiser McKinley, which competes in the O'ahu Interscholastic Association's Red (top tier) Conference, has been one of the OIA's top teams in recent years.
"It feels awesome," said Wolfpack receiver Gilbert Gonzales, who ran for three straight touchdowns to help Pac-Five score 20 straight points in the first half to erase a 6-0 deficit. "We knew they were a good team and that we were the underdogs. But we just stuck with it, we got together and we focused."
Gonzales, listed as 5 feet 4 and 130 pounds, also threw the go-ahead touchdown pass on a 45-yard halfback option to Royce Alvarado with 1:55 remaining in the game. The Tigers had tied the score at 20 with 3:50 left on Lua'aso Peters' 24-yard touchdown run.
McKinley closed to 27-26 on Robin Pau's 14-yard pass to Chris Quiocho with 41 seconds remaining, but Peters was stopped just short of the goal line on the two-point conversion attempt.
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McK—Junxien Zheng 82 pass from Robin Pau (kick failed)
RUSHING — Mck: Peters 9-54, Pau 9-(minus-19), Kapena Quisano 1-(minus-2); Pac: Bryson Bernie 9-(minus-52), Kamalu Kealoha 1-(minus-3), Gonzales 6-23, Nathan Alvarado 2-(minus-12).
PASSING — McK: Pau 24-39-2—290, Tilton Kaluna 3-3-0—97; Pac: Bernie 9-14-0—66, N. Alvarado 10-20-0—104, Gonzales 1-1-0—45.
RECEIVING — McK: Zheng 6-145, Peters 3-19, Juliano Ahlstrand 1-13, Quiocho 10-128, Charles Seyer 4-46, Rodney Maneja 2-23, Quisano 1-13; Pac: Umehira 3-11, R. Alvarado 2-47, Kealoha 1-6, Cody Walker 5-73, Gonzales 4-45, Kawika Searle 4-28, Nick Miyamoto 1-5.
The Wolfpack, who compete in the Interscholastic League of Honolulu's Division II, were making their debut under coach Kip Botelho, whose father coached Pac-Five from 1974-2002.
Pac-Five's Gilbert Gonzales lunges for the end zone to complete a 6-yard touchdown run as McKinley's Moses Ngauamo tries to stop him.
Pac—Gilbert Gonzales 4 run (kick failed)
Pac—Gonzales 1 run (Brent Umehira kick)
Pac—Gonzales 6 run (Umehira kick)
McK—Pau 6 run (Lua'aso Peters pass from Pau)
McK—Peters 24 run (kick failed)
Pac—Royce Alvarado 45 pass from Gonzales (Umehira kick)
McK—Chris Quiocho 14 pass from Pau (run failed)
