OIA Girls Soccer
Castle clinches second place in OIA East with win over Kalaheo


Leighland Tagawa | SL
January 10, 2024, 11:02pm

  

Wed, Jan 10, 2024 @ Kalaheo

Castle

2

Kalaheo

0

Final 1st 2nd OT 2OT PK Tot
Castle (8-3-1) 1 1 - - - 2
Kalaheo (7-4-0) 0 0 - - - 0
U'ilani Shimabukuro (43’)   Brianne Kumashiro (37’)


The Knights played spoiler with a 2-0 win over the Mustangs on senior game at Lee A. Cashman Field Wednesday afternoon. 

Besides it being senior game, there was plenty to play for, in terms of playoff seeding, with the two teams sitting at 3rd and 4th heading into the last game of OIA Eastern Division play. 

The game started out with both sides feeling each other out. The first real chance came in the 20th minute when Castle forward Taja Kaaihue-Tollefsen hit a shot that was comfortably saved by Kalaheo goal keeper Kayla Simeona. Simeona made a total of 4 saves on the game. 

Castle continued to hit shots toward Kalaheo's goal and found the deciding goal minutes before the halftime whistle. 

In the 37th minute, Kaaihue-Tollefsen gathered a ball near midfield and played a through ball down the right flank to Julieanna Myrick. Myrick hit a lofted ball near the top of the 18 yard box. Midfielder Brianne Kumashiro outran two Mustang defenders, collected the ball, and tapped it past an outstretched Simeona to give the Knights the lead. Kumashiro now has 6 goals on the season.

Kalaheo nearly responded seconds after the restart. With their first real chance of the game, midfielder Kilinahe Schenk ran onto a long ball inside the Castle 18 yard box. Schenk beat Castle keeper Liliana Serrano to the ball and tried to hit the ball on target. The ball would slowly fly agonizingly slow across the face of the open goal, but neither team was able to touch the ball and it curved out of bounds for a goal kick. 

The Knights would find the net again right at the beginning of the 2nd half. 

In the 43rd minute, Myrick raced onto a breakaway ball down the right flank. She cut in towards goal and hit a low shot far post. Initally blocked by Simeona, the rebounded directly into the path of the trailing U'ilani Shimabukuro and she slotted the ball into an open net. 

Down 2-0, the Mustangs did not give up as they outshot the Knights 8 to 3 in the final 20 minutes of the game. However, most of the shots were high, wide, or comfortably saved by Serrano. Serrano ended the match with 4 total saves and the clean sheet.

With Kaiser losing for the first time this season, a 1-0 defeat to rival Kalani, the Knights finish second in the OIA East and claim a first round bye heading into the OIA tournament next week. The site of the quarterfinal games are to be determined as Mililani and Campbell tied for first in the OIA West standings and will need a coin toss to determine the top two seeds. 

Kalaheo, the East fourth seed, will play at Waipahu next week Monday in a win or go home game against West fifth seed Kapolei. 




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