Two points spoiled Waimea’s hopes for a sweep Wednesday against the Island School boys team at the Voyagers’ range in Puhi. Kaua‘i High School air riflery teams, during the same time frame, picked up its third straight sweep over Kapa‘a
Two points spoiled Waimea’s hopes for a sweep Wednesday against the Island School boys team at the Voyagers’ range in Puhi.
Kaua‘i High School air riflery teams, during the same time frame, picked up its third straight sweep over Kapa‘a at the Warriors’ range.
“Focus,” Major Victor Aguilar, coach for the Menehune, said while briefing his shooters. “Don’t dwell on the target you just shot, concentrate on the ones you have left. If we win by one point, you’ll be really happy. If we lose by one point, you’ll feel really bad. Focus.”
Waimea’s Jaron Parangao marked the best score of the day for all the boys at 242 (85-81-76), his 76 points in the standing position being the second highest of the day and tied by Kalani Murakami of Kapa‘a.
But the Menehune came up short 1,058 points to Island School’s 1,060 points, led by Cole Moore (89-80-69-238) and Marcus Punua (88-74-63-225).
Following Parongao, the Menehune saw 220 (79-80-61) from Kris Toma and 219 (87-81-51) from Anthony Daligcon.
Island School matched Daligcon’s 219 with Chad Andrade’s 217 (82-79-56) and rounded out the scoring with David Caminos (73-64-58-195) and Micah Kimi (91-62-32-185), the Voyagers’ Cy Whitlock also marking a 185 (84-58-43), but the score not counting toward the team scoring.
Davis Huffman, who was visited by his dad, (83-47-53-183) and Damian Lynch (74-45-29-148) rounded out the field for Island School boys.
Following Daligcon, Weston Souza (75-70-60-205) and Sean Dela Cruz (68-63-41-172) accounted for the Menehune boys scoring, Ky Tomimoto (69-44-33-146) and Devon Hartsell (61-55-327-153) rounding out the Waimea boys’ field.
Waimea girls 1,113; Island School girls 539
Something in the threatening rain gave the girls more pressure to shoot better as Waimea piled up 1,113 points to Island School’s 539.
“We’re combining both relays and shooting everyone together,” said Sean Magoun, coach for Island School. “It’s because we don’t know how long the rain will hold off.”
Courtney Guiro (79-79-70-228) and Melia Takakusagi (88-81-59-228) set the pace for Waimea as all five scoring Menehune women marked over 200 points.
Jessica Tagalin (80-77-66-223), Kayla Ishida (83-68-67-218) and team captain Jackie Taylor (88-69-59-216) accounted for the team scoring.
Mariah Paiste (77-66-68-211), Nikki Acoba, another team captain (77-63-42-182), and Ederlinda Aguinaldo (52-31-28-111) accounted for the Waimea girls.
Jessica Raitz (78-43-21-142) topped the Voyagers’ scores followed by Macklin Laura (72-31-28-131), Jordan Macklin (56-42-21-119), Alex Obert (60-10-24-94) and Bell Hinohosa-Mielcke (27-16-10-53) accounted for the Island School girls.
Kaua‘i boys 1,133, Kapa‘a boys 303
Richard Garcia posted the second highest score of the day, aided by the top prone position score at 90 (out of a possible 100) to lead the Red Raider men at 241 (90-76-75).
He was followed by Matthew Kawamura (88-64-75-227) Brandon Chun (80-63-81-224), Brandon Iida (87-67-069-223) and Hikari Oberman (83-66-69-218) to round out the scoring Raiders.
Other Kaua‘i shooters included Colby Ihara-Takase (68-67-82-217), Micah Chun (75-47-62-184) and Matthew Manipon (77-35-67-179).
Murakami (709-58-76-213) and Ka‘ana Aki (38-22-30-90) accounted for the Kapa‘a boys’ scoring.
Kaua‘i girls 1,118, Kapa‘a girls 1,024
Kristyn Yamamotoya, rebounding after suffering problems with her weapon sights last week, topped all girls’ scoring at 233 (87-77-69), the score leading Kaua‘i to its 1,118-1,024 edge over Kapa‘a.
The 1,118 score was the highest marked by the girls, assisted by Meghan Leary (79-78-70-227), Brooke Hornos (82-74-67-223), Emma Leary (87-72-61-220) and Joelle Patricio (82-77-56-215).
Jamie McDermiott (74-65-69-208), Sara Koide (65-82-56-203) and Robyn Leong (73-43-56-172) rounded out the Kaua‘i girls.
Annie Ballesteros (81-78-64-223) and Kichelle Momohara (80-80-63-223) topped the Warrior wahine at 223 each followed by Shayanne Almarza (79-67-65-211), Markea Johnson (88-54-58-200) and Kaleohi Breannah (66-43-58-167).
Shawna Duhigg (70-63-27-160) and Bianca Verasammy (62-19-58-139) were the other two Warrior wahine shooting.
Kapa‘a next travels to Hanapepe Armory, Wednesday, hosted by Waimea while Island School travels to Kaua‘i High School.
Both matches start at 3 p.m.
