LIHU‘E — Kaua‘i’s Keegan Tanaka “came out of nowhere” and the Red Raider girls broke 1,100 points en route to sweeping Kapa‘a, Wednesday. In Hanapepe, the Waimea boys soared to an 1,100-plus performance and all five Menehune wahine shooters plunked
LIHU‘E — Kaua‘i’s Keegan Tanaka “came out of nowhere” and the Red Raider girls broke 1,100 points en route to sweeping Kapa‘a, Wednesday.
In Hanapepe, the Waimea boys soared to an 1,100-plus performance and all five Menehune wahine shooters plunked 200-plus scores to sweep Island School at the Hanapepe Armory.
The Menehune boys tallied an 1,159-1082 showing over the Voyagers, while the Menehune girls finished 1,092-963 over Island School.
At the Kaua‘i High School range, Kaua‘i boys posted a 1,036-971 edge over Kapa‘a while the Red Raider girls ended 1,102-912 over Kapa‘a.
“Keegan Tanaka — out of nowhere, top shooter!” Marcela Hornos said in an e-mail.
Tanaka and Travis Navarro were the only two boys shooting in the first relay Wednesday among a field of girls.
In that field, Tanaka went on to cop high-point honors for the boys with a 233 (87-84-62), copping the highest scores for the boys in the prone and kneeling positions.
He was followed by Sam Lang (73-74-60-207), Reyn Morioka (74-66-65-205), Navarro (78-76-48-202) and Brandon Iida (77-58-54-189).
Kenneth Vilanueva (85-71-67-223) topped the Kapa‘a boys, followed by Adam Clark (79-75-50-204), Anthony Aiwohi (75-63-53-191), Justin Uegawa (84-51-55-190) and Kalani Murakami (52-66-45-163).
Waimea boys posted the best performance of the day, garnering 1,159 points behind the high point of Bryle Rivera (90-78-76-244), Amlan Fujimura (90-79-75-244), Jaron Parongao (88-73-65-226), John Medeiros (89-78-58-225) and Benigno Baclig (88-68-64-220).
Marcus Punua (90-72-73-235) topped the Island School boys followed by J.Riley Louis (76-77-72-225), Logan Domingo (88-66-59-213), Steven Baptiste (82-79-48-209) and Bronson Griep (85-73-42-200).
Brianne “Malu” Hornos (81-81-75-237) posted the highest score of the day for the girls to lead the Kaua‘i High School girls to its 1,102 performance, the best of all the girls.
“We’re very proud of our girls who hit the 1100-over points as a team,” Hornos said. “As a young team, they’ve struggled to hit the 1,000-mark, but they’ve gone over and beyond our goal. Great job!”
Following Hornos, whose grandmother was on hand to watch the shooter, Kristyn Yamamotoya (77-78-66-221), Delissa Nobriga (76-80-63-219), Adriana Medeiros (82-79-57-218) and Meghan Fujimoto (84-72-51-207) contributed to the Kaua‘i team scoring.
Kaylyn Armstrong-Shiira (87-75-42-204), Alison Yamamoto (81-67-51-199), Oriana Huff (84-59-50-193), Marrisa Goo (70-56-38-164) and Shyanne Almarza (58-54-40-152) accounted for the Kapa‘a girls’ scoring.
“Our best shooter, Mary Walker, is not here today,” said Ian Verasammy, the Kapa‘a coach. “She was doing so well during practice with solid 200s this week, but fell ill just before we were leaving. I’m sure she would have added to our girls’ performance.”
The Waimea girls posted the second-best performance of the day, netting a 1092 led by Kendra Ishida (88-75-63-226), Amber Duldulao (85-69-71-225), Kimberly Aguilar (83-74-63-220), Rachel Umetsu (88-72-60-220) and Sherry Ann Singson (81-57-63-201).
All of the Island School girls counted in the team’s scoring led by Lindsey Duarte (80-71-75-226), Kelsey Long (82-68-71-221), Stephanie Steuri (84-78-52-214), Pi‘ilani Kali (66-56-48-170) and Griffin Lord (37-52-43-132).
Waimea will travel to Kapa‘a High School and Island School will host Kaua‘i in next week’s matches, which start at 3 p.m.
