Kaua‘i High School travels to Waimea tonight for its final season Kaua‘i Interscholastic Federation girls volleyball game. But it’s a pivotal game for the Red Raider ladies who earned the first round title when Kapa‘a upset the Menehune Sept. 22.
Kaua‘i High School travels to Waimea tonight for its final season Kaua‘i Interscholastic Federation girls volleyball game.
But it’s a pivotal game for the Red Raider ladies who earned the first round title when Kapa‘a upset the Menehune Sept. 22.
“We must win all our games,” said Ross Shimabukuro, Kaua‘i athletic director, during an earlier conversation. “And we can use the help of Kapa‘a, too.”
The first round champions dropped their first two games of the second round, first to Kapa‘a, and then to Waimea. But a win over Kapa‘a last Saturday at home gives them a 1-2 edge entering the Clem Gomes Gym.
Waimea enjoyed the return of its coach Chad Dela Noza, and their two tall girls, Cheri Kua and Josey Jacinto, all of whom were affected in the Menehune’s Sept. 22 loss to Kapa‘a.
That gave the Menehune the momentum to get past Kapa‘a in their last encounter, Oct. 10, when the Warriors were without several of their players and sustained an injury to another player during warmups.
Waimea now holds a 2-0 second round record while Kapa‘a is 1-2 after its loss to Kaua‘i Saturday night.
The Menehune close the season Saturday with a trip to the Bernice Hundley Gym in Kapa‘a, and re-armed with its full complement of players, can force a playoff for the KIF title with a win at home tonight.
That puts the pressure on Kaua‘i who must win, and hope that Kapa‘a can best the Menehune Saturday night to force a tie for the second round.
Meanwhile, the Kaua‘i JV girls, suffering its second loss of the season to Kapa‘a in three games Saturday, will be looking to redeem that loss when they meet the JV Menehune starting at 5 p.m. at the Clem Gomes Gym in Waimea.
The varsity contest follows 20 minutes after the JV game, but not earlier than 6:30 p.m.
