OIA Football
Waipahu tops Kailua to complete undefeated regular season run


  

Fri, Oct 7, 2022 @ Kailua [ 7:30 pm ]


Final 1 2 3 4 T
Waipahu (11-2-0) 0 14 9 326
Kailua (4-4-1) 3 7 0 616





Led by Liatama Uiliata at the controls and Anieli Teleaai on the ground, Waipahu completed an undefeated run through its OIA Division I campaign with a 26-16 win over Kailua.

Teleaai carried the ball 21 times for 139 yards and a score and Uiliata completed 17 of 30 passes for 207 yards and another, as the Marauders posted its sixth league win and seventh overall.

Kai Fraser gave Kailua the early lead with a 30 yard field goal at the 1:34 mark of the first quarter, but Waipahu responded with its first score in the opening minute of the second when Uiliata found Jayvren Pinera on a 20 yard pitch and catch to take a 7-3 advantage.

Midway through the second the Marauders padded the margin on a six yard run by Teleaai to make it 14-3, but the home team brought the margin back to single digits at the 4:27 mark when Maa Fonoti found Romeo Ortiz on a 58 yard pass play.

Waipahu tacked on a 27 yard field goal by Xavier Transfiguracion and a TD run by Braeden Togafau in the third quarter to make it 23-10 heading into the fourth, but an 82 yard connection from Ortiz to Jathan Bejarano at the 10:31 mark of the fourth brought Kailua within a single score.

That would be as close as the Surfriders would get however, as Transfiguracion tacked on a 34 yard field goal at the 6:37 mark to extend the Marauders' lead back to double digits.

Waipahu held Kailua to just 185 yards of total offense.




MORE STORIES

Community bids farewell to Aiea High Stadium

Final event on the field at Aiea High School featured music and food and ushered in the soon-to-be constructed...

Repeat champion Warriors led by Campbell, Kahoohanhano

Kamehameha-Maui swept top honors following a second straight state championship, led by OPOY Zedekaiah...

All-Hawaii D1 picks led by Aiea's Kim Choy-Keb-Ah Lo, Kailua's Honebein

Na Alii's Hiki Kim Choy-Keb-Ah Lo named Offensive Player of the Year and Surfriders' Ben Honebein named...

Campbell sweeps All-Hawaii Open Division honors

Seniors Brayden Medeiros and Tainoa Lave were named Offensive and Defensive Players of the Year, respectively;...

PAC-5's Ahu, Mililani's Hookala headline All-Hawaii D1 teams

Wolfpack senior infielder Alika Ahu and Trojans' senior pitcher Zayne Hookala were named Position Player...

Napoleon-Umeda did it all in Honokaa's Division II title march

Senior utility Josyah Napoleon-Umeda was a threat both on the mound and at the plate in the Dragons'...