KAILUA — History will have to wait for Minh Le and Wei Yu Su. In last night's semifinals of the 39th Blue Moon Men's Night Doubles, Ikaika Jobe and Dennis Lajola ended Le's and Su's quest to become the first team to four-peat at Kailua Racquet Club.

The end came quickly, with the third-seeded Lajola and Jobe winning, 6-2, 6-2. They will play second-seeded Jan Axel Tribler and Mikael Maatta in tonight's final at 7.

It is Tribler's and Maatta's fourth consecutive final. The good news for them is they won't have to face the ridiculously quick Le, who played for Cal and on the pro tour, or the powerful Su, an All-American at Brigham Young-Hawai'i.

The bad news is that they play a team that just humbled two guys who had never lost here. Lajola was the University of Hawai'i's No. 1 player his first two seasons. Jobe, a two-time state high school champion at Punahou, was his volunteer coach last season and is heading to law school after a few years on the pro circuit.

"We seemed to do everything right tonight," said Lajola, who was ranked as high as 56 nationally as a sophomore.

All night.

"These guys are always a threat," Jobe added. "All you have to do is think about how well they've played here every year. You can't let up."

Tribler and Maatta, former Hawai'i Pacific teammates and current financial advisors, looked quicker and younger than ever in their annual tennis outing of the year. The 30-somethings took out Punahou graduate Michael Bruggemann and Erich Chen, 6-2, 6-4, in the first semifinal.

Bruggemann and Chen, who sandwiched a 2004 finals loss to Jobe and Bradley Lum-Tucker with wins in 2003 and 2005, have now lost in the semifinals the past two years.

A year ago, it was a three-set heartbreaker against Le and Su. Last night, the former Santa Clara teammates could never find a rhythm. Worse yet, they could never shake Maatta and Tribler out of their remarkable rhythm, particularly returning serve and at the net.

The former Sea Warrior All-Americans traced their win to some unusual "points."

They characterized winning the opening game as the crucial part of the match because it was the first time that happened all week. "It was a mental thing," Maatta said.

They also credited their newfound passion for the game of squash — not the vegetable — with their improved fitness and quickness.

They won every net rally, with the tall Tribler appearing to have dramatically faster hands. He has lost 17 pounds "working out" on the squash court.

Like always, he and Maatta "trained" for this tournament with about three weeks of tennis. Both insist squash's smaller dimensions, and much quicker pace, are not a problem when they head outdoors for the game they grew up playing in Denmark (Tribler) and Sweden (Maatta).

"We played tennis 25 years," Tribler shrugged. "You don't forget."

Kendall Char and the late Peter Isaak won five Men's Night Doubles crowns, including three in a row from 1982 to '84.