The team now known as the Trojans, formerly Pac-3, broke a 21-game, three-year winless streak with a convincing 37-12 victory over Fort McMurray of Canada last night in a non-league game at War Memorial Stadium in Wailuku.

And the Trojans did it with just 20 players dressed — at least five of whom left the field with various ailments as the game wore on. No one on the St. Anthony roster outside of senior Garrett Gonsalves — who was a member of the team when it won the 2004 Division II Maui Interscholastic League championship — had ever tasted a varsity win.

The Trojans, a team made up of 28 St. Anthony students and Seabury Hall's Chris Sugidono, broke on top early and then held on for dear life as cramps crept in late on the exhausted bunch.

Makalea Medeiros left the game with a knee injury, Jordan Kahalekai-Bermoy missed time with cramps, and a couple of linemen missed time late with various ailments.

But when Keith Flores flew through the line and ran 75 yards early in the fourth quarter — his third rushing touchdown of the night — it gave the Trojans a 30-6 lead and enough breathing room to start thinking about that elusive win.

"It does feel really good, our first win,'' Flores, a junior who had previously run for touchdowns of 3 and 15 yards and finished with 122 yards on 11 carries, said to The Maui News. "It is the first win since I have been here and it feels awesome. On the long run my adrenaline was high. I can't explain it. If it wasn't for my line it wouldn't have happened.''

The final statement came when the Trojans' Ryan Rodriguez grabbed an errant pass by Trappers quarterback Jake Welsh and took it 86 yards for a touchdown and 37-6 lead with 7 minutes, 12 seconds to play.

The Trappers of Alberta got on the scoreboard one more time when they executed a hook-and-ladder play with 2:51 to play. Mike Sadowski took a lateral from receiver Derek Paulson the final 40 yards of a 59-yard play.

It was not nearly enough to dampen the spirits of the jubilant Trojans, whose winless streak of 0-20-1 started with a 49-7 loss on Kaua'i in the 2004 D-II state playoffs.

"That was a big gorilla on our backs,'' Trojans coach Charlie Pico said. "Everybody on this team, in all kinds of ways, contributed to this.''

The Trojans went in front less than four minutes into the game when Thomas Cortez nailed a 29-yard field goal with 8:10 left in the first quarter. It capped an eight-play, 38-yard drive after the opening kickoff. Flores ran four times on the drive for 26 yards.

"I knew then we had a chance,'' Flores said. "I just wanted to keep it going all night.''

They did.

After Jacob Skelton recovered a fumble on the Fort McMurray 36-yard line, Flores gave the Trojans a 9-0 lead with 2:29 left in the first quarter on a 3-yard scoring run.

After forcing a punt on the Trappers' next possession, Buta Wilhelm-Ioane ran for a 10-yard score on a quarterback keeper with 10:56 to go before halftime. The big play on the drive was a 33-yard pass from Kahalekai-Bermoy to Joshua Tam Sing that gave the Trojans a first down on the McMurray 22.

The Trojans led 16-6 at halftime.

Lahainaluna 48, Waiakea 0

This one was virtually over before Waiakea managed to touch the ball on offense.

Lahainaluna's Lake Casco returned the opening kickoff 98 yards for a touchdown 15 seconds into the game; the Lunas' Jacob McCarthy recovered Casco's ensuing onside kick; three plays later Blaise Smith scored on a 14-yard reverse; Kailas McGhee recovered another onside kick moments later; and Jacob Boteilho scored on a 2-yard run eight plays after that.

The score was 21-0 with 6 minutes, 25 seconds gone in the first quarter and the Warriors' offense had not seen the field. The Lunas eventually cruised to a 48-0 non-league win over Waiakea yesterday afternoon at Lahainaluna.

Before the first quarter was over, 12 Lunas (or 13, counting center Chauncey Kaukau) had touched the football on offense — and Smith had done so receiving and rushing. He had two carries for 29 yards and two scores and a 10-yard reception that netted a first down in the first quarter, and those were the numbers he would finish with as every one of the 45 players on the Lahainaluna roster who dressed got into the game.

"It was OK for us, but we have got to look at the film to see what really went on,'' Lahainaluna coach Bobby Watson said to The Maui News after his team improved to 9-0 in on-campus games since reinstating them in 2004 after a 57-year hiatus. "We didn't see much, so we still have a lot to look at. We are not going to say anything or look into anything until we sit down as a staff and review our films.''

Watson said the lopsided outcome, in his team's opener, did not give the full story of the game.

"The score does not indicate what happens out here,'' he said. "We need to take a good look before we come out and say anything.''

The Lunas (1-0) simply clicked on every imaginable angle — Casco had three spectacular kick returns for a total of 150 yards, junior quarterback Jake Manning was 7-for-7 passing for 90 yards and 10 different players recorded rushing yards, including five with 29 or more apiece.

With just under 10 minutes to play before halftime, the score was 34-0 and the total yardage advantage for the Lunas was 215 to minus 1.

It was all enough to make Waiakea coach Will Tolentino shake his head. The Warriors dropped to 0-2.

"That is a very tough team, big team, explosive, explosive,'' Tolentino said. "They kind of put us in a hole in the beginning and so our main goal in the second half was to get these guys out of the hole mentally.

"The talent that Lahainaluna can put on the field at one time – that is a lot of weapons to defend.''

Indeed, whether it was Manning hitting Chris Wanke four times for 66 yards through the air or Casco ripping off a 44-yard run from scrimmage or fullback Kailas McGhee bulling his way for tough yardage through the middle, the Lunas were unstoppable.

On defense, if it wasn't Joseph Lai recording one of his four tackles for loss, including three sacks, it was someone else laying a big stick time after time.

They did not punt in the game. After holding a 41-0 lead at halftime, the entire second half was played on the 35-point mercy-rule running clock and took about 35 minutes to complete.

"Everybody suited up, everybody played,'' Watson said. "So we get to look at everybody and see who can help us out, so we'll see.''