WAIMEA — Only four Red Raiders scored, in Kaua‘i’s 39-36 win over Waimea, Saturday night. But it only took one shot, at the buzzer to put the game away as Davone Florence broke a 36-36 deadlock with a buzzer-beating swisher.
WAIMEA — Only four Red Raiders scored, in Kaua‘i’s 39-36 win over Waimea, Saturday night.
But it only took one shot, at the buzzer to put the game away as Davone Florence broke a 36-36 deadlock with a buzzer-beating swisher.
In a similar win for the JV squad, Kaua‘i pulled away in the final two minutes to sew up a 47-41 win.
Florence, finishing with a game-high 15 points, took the point after Kaua‘i coach Ipo Yoshioka called a time out with 36 ticks on the clock and the score tied at 36-36.
Waimea, in the deficit all night, came out of the locker rooms chasing three points and slowed the game down drastically.
That didn’t stop Kaua‘i who got nine points, six coming from Teila Huni who put back a pair from Kaleo Cummings and increasing its lead to five points, 21-26 at the buzzer.
With 2:32 showing, Kaua‘i had managed an eight-point lead, but Waimea shut down the Raider guns until Florence’s game shattering shot.
VJ Carineo and Malcolm Carter buckets with less than two minutes remaining pulled Waimea back into the game, with Sean Inouye stalemating the contest on a three-point play.
Following Florence, Huni finished with a dozen points, Cummings added eight points and several key assists, and Chow’s pair rounded out the win.
Carter topped the Menehune scoring with 10 points followed by Inouye who ended with eight points. Carineo added seven points to round out the leader boards.
