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The Honolulu Advertiser
Posted on: Wednesday, September 5, 2007

OIA JV softball already under way

Advertiser Staff

The shuffling of Hawai'i high school sports seasons has resulted in the O'ahu Interscholastic Association starting JV softball league play yesterday, about three months earlier than usual and six months before the varsity season.

Until this year, JV softball was played in the winter, the same time as the varsity. But the varsity season was moved to the spring after the Hawai'i High School Athletic Association's executive board voted in April to move girls basketball from the spring to winter.

The OIA then moved its JV baseball season from spring to winter to relieve congestion at school and city parks and recreation fields, and moved JV softball for the same reason.

"It made more sense (to use fields in the fall)," OIA executive director Dwight Toyama said.

Farrington, however, will be forced to play all of its games on the road because its home park, Joey DeSa Field, is being used by a youth football program.

Also, the Interscholastic League of Honolulu will not play its JV season until the spring, so there will be no non-league games.

FOOTBALL UPDATE

Campbell 21, Kamehameha 21: Campbell's Samson Anguay scored on a 90-yard run and 70-yard reception from Kevin Newcomb in the second half Saturday to help the Sabers tie kamehameha in non-league action at Kunuiakea Stadium.

Kamehameha, No. 7 in The Advertiser's Top 10 poll, is 1-0-1. Campbell is 0-1-1.

Kamehameha took a 21-0 halftime lead after Michael Hoke's 8-yard touchdown pass to Edmund Kamano and 10-yard TD toss to Maika Mataele, plus Kamano's 3-yard touchdown run.

But Anguay, a speedy 5-foot-7, 140-pound sophomore, scored on his 90-yard run and Fa'afetai Tuvale added a 15-yard TD run. The Sabers then tied it after the long pass play from Newcomb to Anguay (172 all-purpose yards).

Hoke completed 14 of 21 passes for 244 yards, with one interception, and added 56 yards rushing on nine carries.