KAPA‘A — The stage is set for Thursday, after the Kaua‘i boys and Waimea boys won their Kaua‘i Interscholastic Federation air rifle matches last week. The Raider boys improved to 3-0 on the season with a 1,152-948 showing over Kapa‘a
KAPA‘A — The stage is set for Thursday, after the Kaua‘i boys and Waimea boys won their Kaua‘i Interscholastic Federation air rifle matches last week.
The Raider boys improved to 3-0 on the season with a 1,152-948 showing over Kapa‘a while at Island School, Waimea shot an 1,157-1,020 edge over Island School.
On the girls’ side of the arena, Kapa‘a was a 1,059-1,042 winner over Kaua‘i, while Waimea completed its sweep with a 1,191-1,122 win over Island School.
With just two more weeks remaining in the season, this sets up a showdown between Kaua‘i and Waimea Thursday when the Menehune travel to the Kaua‘i campus, starting at 3 p.m.
“The boys can set the pace with a win Thursday,” said Ross Shimabukuro, the Kaua‘i athletic director. “They beat Waimea once, and if they can do it again, they go into the driver’s seat with one match remaining.”
However, if Waimea boys pull off a win, the possibility of a shoot off becomes real. Last year, the KIF championship was determined by a shootoff, and at the rate Waimea is shooting, that possibility exists.
“The boys have been consistently shooting in the 1,100-range,” said Waimea coach Victor Aguilar. “They’ll just have to be on.”
Shooting at two different venues, Kaua‘i boys also finished in the 1,100 range, totalling 1,152 over Kapa‘a, 5 points short of the 1,157 tallied by the Menehune against Island School.
“I try to get the boys to focus, but for some reason, they seem to just rise to the occasion when they face Waimea,” said Kaua‘i coach Douglas Nobriga. “Last week, all we did was kneeling and standing … we need work there.”
Anchored by Kelan Adachi (85-79-76-240) and Jason Cabot (87-79-74-240), the Raiders got a comeback showing from freshman Shaun Koide (80-84-73-237). Following them, Elliot Yamamoto (79-78-62-219) and Tyler Navarro (87-68-61-216) rounded out the Kaua‘i win.
Rusty Klutke (81-72-63-216) set the pace for Kapa‘a followed by Ikaika Fernandez (83-60-61-204), Jonathan Ganir (84-76-36-196), Lopito Parong (80-62-32-174) and Reiji Butac (66-60-32-158).
Jared Coleman-Stark (91-76-86-253) led the Menehune followed by Peter Joyce (88-61-84-233), Ty Shitanaka (92-57-81-230), Kevin Aguilar (91-64-74-229) and Geoffrey Tran (87-53-72-212).
J Riley Louis (80-58-77-215) and Kenji Rutter (84-58-72-214) topped the Island School ranks followed by Ian Ruiz (89-55-64-208), Logan Domingo (72-56-77-205) and Carlos Maibeth-Mortimer (62-51-65-178).
In the girls’ arena, Waimea controls the standings with Mershelle Rivera and Beverly Grande leading last week’s charge with a 244 (86-76-82) and 240 (90-72-78), respectively, against Island School. Joining them at the leader board, Ceci Sun (91-70-76-237) and Brandi Briones (82-73-81-236) filled in the top slots with Rachel Wright (87-70-77-234) rounding out the top five.
Michelle Woltmon, in addition to leading the Island School girls, continued to lead the individual scores, finishing with a 245 (87-77-81) against Waimea. Following her, Blaise LaMadrid (88-63-78-229) and Richelle Ridenour (88-64-72-224) anchored the leaders. Sonya James (89-50-82-221) and Maddisen Domingo (81-60-62-203) rounded out the leaders.
Britney Inanod (89-87-54-230) anchored the Kapa‘a girls followed by Darlene Jarquio (87-72-62-221), Alma Iglesia (86-71-58-215), Heather Walker (84-71-56-211) and Kamala Rojas (71-70-41-182).
Megan Rasay (89-78-70-237) topped the girls field in Kapa‘a to lead the Raider girls. She was followed by Nicole Cristobal (83-71-63-217), Maureen Sibolboro (89-65-59-213), Valerie Ganiban (81-65-51-197) and Jennifer Tagupa (82-65-31-178).
Island School will be traveling to Kapa‘a for the second set of matches Thursday starting at 3 p.m.
