KAPAA — Kapaa Junior Varsity player Kaison Yanos finished with a game-high 19 points, and the Warriors took both the JV and varsity contests on Saturday against Waimea High School during the Kauai Interscholastic Federation boys basketball games that were contested at the Bernice Hundley Gym.
Yanos’ total scoring that included a trey in the opening stanza counted toward Kapaa JV’s 53-42 victory over the JV Menehune that scrapped until the final buzzer after coming up just a point short, 11-12, in the final quarter.
Kaleo Gonzalves finished with five marks, and Ronald Lampitoc contributed four points.
Noah De La Pena topped the JV Menehune scoring with a dozen points, including a pair of three-ballls, and Daniel Oligo finished with 10 points, including a pair of treys.
On the varsity floor, the Warriors survived a first period scare to post a 51-37 win over Waimea.
Warrior inside tall post CJ Jenkins sat on the bench, watching the Menehune take a lead over Kapaa until the first rotation. With seconds remaining in the opening quarter, Jenkins’ bucket — his sole score in the quarter — pulled the Warriors out of the hole for its first lead of the contest, 15-14. Waimea answered as Jaydon Moises dropped a three-ball, his fourth in the period, to surge to a 17-15 edge at the buzzer.
The action overflowed into the second quarter when Austin Green’s bucket knotted the contest at 17-17. Jenkins followed with three consecutive buckets to put Kapaa into a 23-19 lead that Waimea could not overcome. The Warriors inside post went on to finish with 15 points followed by guard Reimel Camacho lending 10 points toward the win over the army of blueshirts that saw 17 men on its roster compared to the 10 that suited up for Kapaa.
Moises finished by posting five bombs from outside the three-point mark, followed by Mar Ruiz adding another trio of three-balls, and a charity pair for 11 points.
In a third contest played on Saturday at the new Kauai High School gymnasium, the Red Raiders’ Cameron Holt to and Barkley Gillman each peeled off 16 points to lead the redshirts to a 57-44 win over Island School.
Lucas Summerhays finished with 18 points, and Matt Dobashi ended with 16 points to lead the Island School effort that saw the Voyagers chasing just three points, 20-23 at the break.
Gillman, being held to just five marks in the first half, stoked an explosive 25-point third quarter with 11 points while holding Island School to 10 points.
The next KIF boys basketball games will take place Tuesday when Kapaa visits the new Kauai High School gymnasium to face the Red Raiders. Waimea will visit the Wilcox Gymnasium to face the Voyagers in a single contest starting at 6:30 p.m.
At the Kauai High School gymnasium, the JV contest tips off at 5:30 p.m. followed by the varsity contest starting 20 minutes following the completion of the JV game.
