The Punahou School boys basketball team snapped one of Iolani's record win streaks last month. Tonight, it will try to break another.

The teams meet again in a key Interscholastic League of Hono-lulu showdown at Iolani, with tipoff set for 7. The Raiders (9-6 overall) will be putting their 57-game ILH win streak on the line, a string that began late in the 2001 season.

A little more than four weeks ago, Punahou (14-3) defeated Iolani, 67-56, in the championship game of the James Alegre Invitational to snap the Raiders' 105-game win streak against Hawai'i opponents, a string that began in December of 2001.

Each team is 2-0 in the ILH. Four-time defending state champion Iolani lost only two seniors from last year's team and is led by senior guard Vinny Nip (15.5 points per game, ILH). Nip, a fourth-year varsity player, scored 23 points in a 60-57 victory over Saint Louis on Friday, including 11 in the decisive third period.

Liloa Nobriga, a 6-foot-3 freshman forward, added 21 points, including 13 of 14 free throws.

The Buffanblu are led by 5-9 junior guard Miah Ostrowski, who hit a 13-foot baseline jumper with seven seconds remaining Saturday to help Punahou rally past Maryknoll, 48-47.

FORMER KAIMUKI AD DIES

Charles Miyashiro, a former head football coach and athletic director at Kaimuki High School, died Friday after a three-year fight with cancer.

He was 71.

Miyashiro, a 1952 graduate of Kaimuki, became head football coach at Roosevelt in 1965 and stayed three seasons before taking over the program at his alma mater in 1968. He spent six seasons guiding the Bulldogs and finished with an overall record of 46-46-4 in nine seasons at both schools.

Miyashiro stayed on as athletic director at Kaimuki until 1990 and served as an assistant football coach for the Bulldogs and for Pac-Five until three years ago.

"We grew up together, and he helped me start the Pac-Five program in 1974," said ILH executive director Don Botelho. "He was the defensive coordinator for Pac-Five's first Prep Bowl team in 1982, and he kept coming back to help coach after trying to retire. He couldn't say no. I can't say enough good things about him; he was a great friend and it's a big loss."

O'ahu Interscholastic Association executive secretary Dwight Toyama, who played for Miyashiro at Kaimuki and then succeeded him as athletic director, said Miyashiro was an "old school" coach with a surprisingly calming effect.

"He wasn't one of those guys who yelled a lot," Toyama said. "He was always so positive and very patient, that's the one thing I remember about him."

Services are set for 6 p.m. Monday at Nu'uanu Memorial Park, with a viewing on Sunday at 1 p.m.

BIIF'S MORIOKA RETIRES

Keith Morioka has retired from his post as executive secretary of the Big Island Interscholastic Federation, Toyama said.

Former BIIF executive secretary Roy Fujimoto will return on an interim basis until a permanent successor can be found, Toyama said.

Morioka headed the BIIF the past two years. He previously was athletic director at Hana and spent over two decades as a coach and athletic director at Waipahu.

Reach Wes Nakama at wnakama@honoluluadvertiser.com.