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Kalani Takase | ScoringLiveJanuary 19, 2024, 1:03am
Thu, Jan 18, 2024 @ Kapolei
KAPOLEI — Twenty-two days after they played to a tie in the regular season, the Mililani and Campbell girls' soccer teams will square off for a league championship.
The Trojans and Sabers, the No. 4 and 5 teams, respectively, in the ScoringLive Power Rankings, secured their spots in Saturday's title game of the Oahu Interscholastic Association Division I tournament with wins in Thursday night's semifinal round at Kapolei's Alvin Nagasako Sports Complex.
Mililani, the top seed out of the Western Division, punched its ticket with a 1-0 win over West third-seeded Waipahu, while West two-seed Campbell posted a 4-2 result against East top-seed Moanalua.
The Sabers got a hat trick from sophomore midfielder Miyah Suster. All three of her goals — in the 22nd, 47th and 78th minutes — came in the run of play.
Suster's first goal came off an assist from Raeah Raymondo, who took the ball near the end line before she found Suster on a cross.
"Autumn (Apana-Purcell) was able to win a fifty-fifty ball in the air and she played a through-ball to Raeah and Raeah was able to find me running in the six(-yard box) and I just had to stab it into the back post," said Suster, who used her right foot on the one-timer past the Moanalua goalkeeper.
Campbell held a 1-0 lead at halftime, but added to it four minutes into the second half with Leia Tupper's penalty-kick goal. Tupper blasted her shot into the bottom left corner of the goal to double-up her team's lead.
Just three minutes after Tupper scored, Suster got free from about 20 yards out and laced a left-footed rocket into the right side of the frame for her second goal of the night.
"That started with a goal kick and I won the ball through the air then passed it up to our forward, Ali (Ganigan Hale) and she was able to set me and I just had to make one move to my left foot, right outside the 18(-yard box) and I found the right corner," Suster recapped.
The Sabers' commanding three-goal lead was cut into late in the game on back-to-back Krislyn Uyeda goals in the 77th and 78th minutes. Uyeda scored her first goal from a close distance, then netted her second in as many minutes after she split a pair of defenders and put a shot into the bottom right corner.
However, just as Na Menehune got back into it, Suster closed the door on their comeback attempt with her third goal — her team-leading 15th on the year — after a scramble in the box also in the 78th minute.
"Thirty seconds before that goal I was running up and I got smacked in the face with the ball and then I kind of stayed up there because my eye was sore and then I forget what happened, but somebody was dribbling up the line and crossed it and I was kind of holding back and this (Moanalua) girl tried to head it out and she just headed it right to me so I just took a touch to my left foot again and found the back corner," recalled the right-footed Suster.
Suster reflected that a year ago, her team lost in the semifinal stage of the OIA tournament to eventual-champion Mililani.
"It feels really good. Last year I didn't play as good, I feel like. I was more hungry this year and especially this game because I came off a not-so-good game last game (against Kaiser in Tuesday's quarterfinals) and I just felt really hungry to score and my teammates put me into that position to score," said Suster, who earned All-OIA West first team honors and All-Hawaii third team recognition as a female a year ago.
Moanalua (10-2) was seeking a second straight title game appearance.
Campbell will be making its first appearance in the OIA championship game since 2022, when it lost to Mililani 3-0.
The Trojans will be playing in their fifth consecutive league final. They have won the last three OIA crowns and a league-record 20 overall.
Atianna Tauiai Fuamatu-Maafala accounted for Mililani's lone goal with her penalty kick in the 23rd minute to push the Trojans past the unranked Marauders in the early semifinal Thursday.
Waipahu (9-3-1) saw its six-game win streak come to an end.
Mililani recorded three well-struck shots in the first 10 minutes of play, but none of them were on frame. However, a handball in the box against the Marauders gifted the Trojans a penalty kick a few minutes beyond the midpoint of the first half.
Fuamatu-Maafala lined up the PK and booted it with her right foot past goalkeeper Zinn Kurose and into the bottom right corner of the goal.
"I have complete confidence in her," junior defender Camryn Kunihisa said of Fuamatu-Maafala, a first team All-OIA West and All-Hawaii selection a year ago.
"She's one of the best players in the OIA, I feel, and even the state. She's just really good all around at what she can do and she's really good at putting the simple shots away," Kunihisa added.
Immediately after she scored her Division I-best 20th goal of the season, Fuamatu-Maafala was subbed out. She rested the final 17 minutes of the first half. Fuamatu-Maafala started the match at center-forward — her usual position on the pitch — but eventually shifted over to the right wing for a good chunk of her action prior to halftime.
Waipahu's first and only shot on goal came in the 29th minute, but was from distance and resulted in an easy save for Trojans goalkeeper Jordyn Labajo-Cleaver.
The Trojans' backline of outside-backs Taegen Deocares and Kalena Yamashita, along with center-backs Kunihisa and Karlie Yamada stamped out any opportunities in the final third for the Marauders, who were held without a corner kick.
"We take a lot of pride because we don't only defend the ball, but we help improve the play and the speed of it," Kunihisa said. "I would like to say that we do contribute a lot to the game although we don't get a lot of action on defense a lot of the time, but we still take a lot of pride in what we do."
Kunihisa was in the right place at the right time in the 66th minute, when Waipahu's leading goal scorer, Deizha Lyn Jacinto, found some open space and ripped a right-footed shot from about 25 yards out. Jacinto's shot had plenty of pace on it, but found the leg of Kunihisa, whose deflection maintained a clean sheet for the Trojans defensively.
"Chaos," Kunihisa said of the sequence. "I saw everybody moving around and there wasn't much talking because we were all trying to find a man to mark and we were just all scrambling to get the ball out at that point. I saw her shot, the vision of her shot, so I kind of just stood in the way and I turned around and then the ball hit my leg."
Mililani recorded six of its eight shots on goal after halftime.
Kurose tallied seven saves in goal for Waipahu.
It was the Trojans' second win over the Marauders this season. They won the regular-season meeting by a score of 3-0 back on Dec. 15.
Mililani has shut out 11 of its 12 opponents this season. The only opponent to score against the Trojans all year was Campbell. The teams played to a 3-3 tie when they faced off on Dec. 29 in Ewa Beach.
The Trojans and Sabers will bring identical 10-0-2 records into Saturday's rematch. Kickoff is scheduled for 7 p.m. at Kapolei and will follow the Division II title game between Kalani (6-3-2) and Leilehua (6-5) at 5 p.m.
Waipahu will host Moanalua Friday for third place. That game will kick-off at 7 p.m. at the Marauders' Masa Yonamine Athletic Complex.
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