Hawaiian Electric Game of the Week
No. 4 Mililani spoils No. 2 Kahuku's homecoming


Michael Lasquero | ScoringLive
September 29, 2018, 11:12pm

  


Sat, Sep 29, 2018 @ Kahuku [ 6:30 pm ]

Mililani

38

Kahuku

10

Final 1 2 3 4 T
Mililani (10-3-0) 14 3 7 1438
Kahuku (7-5-0) 0 3 7 010
Robert Sauvao 84 yd
Dillon Gabriel 309 yd 2 TD
Robert Sauvao 104 yd 1 TD
Kilifi Malepeai 46 yd 3 TD
Toalei Lefau 39 yd
Maka Hill 58 yd 1 TD

KAHUKU — One week ago, Dillon Gabriel and the Mililani football team broke the state's all-time career passing yards record.

On Saturday night, the fourth-ranked Trojans executed at a high level to end No. 2 Kahuku's 49-game winning streak at home.

Visiting Mililani spoiled the Red Raiders' homecoming and handed Kahuku its first loss at home since 2007 with a commanding 38-10 OIA Open Division win before a standing-room only crowd at Carleton E. Weimer Field.

Gabriel completed 30 of 47 passes for 309 yards and two scores to help the Trojans improve to 6-2 overall and 4-0 atop the league standings. The senior quarterback did not throw an interception and was never sacked in the contest.

"We knew that the person we needed to stop was Dillon. He entered the game in a white jersey and he left in a white jersey," said Kahuku first-year coach Sterling Carvalho. "He's savvy, he gets the ball out, he knows his reads and he executed it well."

But Gabriel didn't do it all on his own against the Red Raiders (4-2 overall, 1-1 OIA Open). Bruising back Kilifi Malepeai ran in three scores in the red zone and Mililani's receivers made a handful of spectacular grabs in traffic to either extend drives or put up points.

Mililani's defense swallows Kahuku RB Wesley Alo-Maiava. The Trojans also forced four three-and-outs in the first half that led to 17 points.

A 25-yard field goal by Duke Heffernan on the final play of the second quarter kept Kahuku in the game, but that wouldn’t be enough to overcome a Mililani team that was clicking on all cylinders.

Ryan Chang hauled in a 12-yard TD pass from Gabriel on the Trojans’ first drive of the second half to push Mililani’s lead back to three scores, 24-3.

The Red Raiders finally found the end zone after Sauvao scampered for a 55-yard score on the next play from scrimmage, but had little to no success the rest of the way. Two scoring runs by Malepeai in the fourth quarter sealed the deal for Mililani, who earned its first win over the Red Raiders since 2014.

“The kids executed and they brought their A-game,” said Mililani coach Rod York. “That’s what it took to come into Kahuku and get the win.”


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