Sunday it was decided where and when the Kaua’i High School boys and girls volleyball teams will play at the 2000 Nissan State Volleyball Championship. The tournament runs November 7-10 at Hemmeter Fieldhouse on the Punahou School campus and at
Sunday it was decided where and when the Kaua’i High School boys and girls
volleyball teams will play at the 2000 Nissan State Volleyball Championship.
The tournament runs November 7-10 at Hemmeter Fieldhouse on the Punahou School
campus and at the Stan Sheriff Center on the UH-Manoa campus.
Kaua’i
Boys (6-2, KIF)
Kaua’i will play in Pool D with Maui (12-2), the Maui
Interscholastic League champion, and Pearl City (12-1), the Oahu
Interscholastic Association’s No. 2 finisher.
The Red Raiders’ first game
is Tuesday at 4:30 p.m. against Pearl City at Hemmeter Fieldhouse. The contest
will be Pearl City’s second of the day. It has to play Maui at 12:00 p.m.
“We’ve got an advantage there,” Kaua’i coach Shawn Doo said. “We get to go
scout those two teams at noon.”
Maui, however, will get to scout the
Raiders in that 4:30 game. Those two teams play Wednesday at 3 p.m. at the Stan
Sheriff Center.
“I don’t know too much about Maui,” Doo said. “But Pearl
City plays standard volleyball and I don’t think they have anybody over six
feet.
“We’re going to have to pass well and move the ball around at the
net.”
Overall, Doo is happy with the situation, and
confident.
Kaua’i Girls (8-0, KIF)
The Lady Raiders also are
in Pool D. With them is Molokai (18-1) and McKinley (9-5) High
Schools.
Working against Kaua’i is the fact that, aside from this being the
teams first-ever trip to the state tournament, it must play the second game, at
1:30 p.m. against McKinley, and at Stan Sheriff Center to boot.
“We’re
going to have to get over our nerves,” head coach Richard Roberts said. “There
is the mental hurdle of that big arena. I know that in the semifinals of the
OIA tournament, the teams just looked nervous and were making mistakes that a
nervous team might normally make.”
Working in the Raiders’ favor is the
fact that they played McKinley in the Longhy Okamoto preseason tournament,
losing in three “tough games,” according to Roberts.
“That loss came after
a whole day of playing, so it was tough.”
Molokai and McKinley play each
other Tuesday night, and Kaua’i will be there to scout. Then the Raiders face
Molokai Wednesday at 7:30 p.m., the final game of the day.
