Iolani Invitational at Ford Island - September 22, 2007

Official Results

Boys Intermediate, Boys JV, Boys Varsity

Girls Intermediate, Girls 2 Mile, Girls Varsity

It wasn't as hot as it could have been. But, it was very windy and dry, which meant there was a lot of sand and dust blowing around. Very tough running into that wind.

The course was mostly grass, but still pretty fast since it was about as flat as you can get.

The competition was superb. With many teams from the mainland and the OIA joining the ILH, the Iolani Invitational is one of the largest, if not the largest local meet of the year, usually with the toughest competition.

On the boys side at the varsity level, it was Palos Verdes winning with 49 points. Lakewood (84 points) took second. Local powerhouse, Leilehua, took 3rd place with Bryce Jenkins taking 3rd overall. Matt Duffy from St. Mary's took 1st place with an excellent time of 15:58. There were 3 local boys in the top 10. Joining Bryce was Matt Nakamoto (5th - HBA), and Paul Williams (9th - Leilehua). Top 20 finishes were turned in by Dawson Vorderbruegge (Kaiser), Nathan Nakatsuka (Kamehameha), and Scott Motobu (Mid-Pacific).

The girls varsity was dominated by Redlands, who placed their top 5 at 1, 2, 8, 10 and 12 for a total of 33 points. Local school, Maryknoll, was able to place second, a fabulous showing, with Haley Abing finishing at 5th overall. St. Mary's (CA) took 3rd. Iolani was the next local school to place at 5th.

The top local girl was Kristin Ali Keith (Mililani - 19:45), followed by Haley (5th - Maryknoll), Maile Scarpino (7th-Iolani), Jenna Wong (9th-Iolani), Claire Hann (11th-Maryknoll), Amelia Linsky (14th - Iolani), Dayna Domingo (16th-Pearl City) and Savannah Lowrie (18th-Leilehua).

The JV boys race had the second most dominant finish of all when Palos Verdes finished 1, 2, 3, 4 and 11 for 21 points. Almost a perfect score! Henry M. Gunn was second with 49, and local team Kamehameha was 3rd with 74.

Individually, Palos Verdes had the first 4 places when Daniel Meyer, Anthony Woods, Johnny Funnell and Chase Zukerman all finished in a pack. Henry M. Gunn had the next 3 places. Borys Pleskacz (Iolani) was the first local finisher at 8th place with a time of 18:08. Other local top 20 finishers included Donzel Scott (Leilehua), Dan Kaneko (Kamehameha), Matthew Dodge (Campbell), Joey Chun (Kamehameha), Grant Kaima (Kamehameha), Greg Sikes-Mitchell (Radford), Kawai Akiona (Kamehameha), and Robert Tamai (Iolani).

The 2 mile girls open race was won by Punahou School. Punahou had the most dominant victory placing 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6. For good measure they also placed 7 and 9. Local teams also took second through fifth, St. Andrew's Priory, Radford, Iolani, and Maryknoll.

Megan Crowley of Redlands won this race with a superb time of 14:01. But, Redlands didn't have a scoring team so Amanda Tamanaha of St. Andrew's actually claimed the number 1 spot for scoring purposes. Then it was 4 Punahou girls, Megan Steele, Sarah Hayashi, Brooke Laporte, and Lahaina Zoller. Other top 20 finishers were Courtney Choy (Punahou), Chelsea Chan (HBA), Carli Look (Punahou), Heidi Nicholls (HBA), Gina Galante (St. Andrew's), Lauren Wong (Punahou), Jayann Gabrio (Punahou), Brie Adams (Maryknoll) and Nicole Valentini (St. Andrew's).

The Iolani boys won the intermediate division in a close battle with Rivera Middle School, 52-54. Kamehameha and Mililani weren't too far behind, finishing 3rd and 4th.

Local athletes took 15 out of the top 20 spots in the intermediate boys race. All 5 of the spots they didn't get were taken by Rivera, taking 1, 6, 14, 15 and 18. Iolani took 2, 3, 11, 12 and 24 to squeak out the win.

The overall winner was Chris Alvarez of Rivera, with a time of 12:01. Top 20 local finishers were Kasey Chun and Justin Higa (Iolani), Kelvin Naito (Punahou), Collin Pido (Kamehameha), Zachary Carvalho (Mililani), Ashton Maynes (Moanalua), Joshua Freitas (Kamehameha), Jon Kim (HBA), Michael Diebold and Troy Esaki (Iolani), Andrew Momohara (Mililani), Shaun Bissen (Kamehameha), Harrison Oshiro (Punahou), Brad-George Gaison (Kamehameha) and Trenton Dos-Santos Tam (Punahou).

In the girls intermediate race there was a 3 way tie with Punahou, Rivera and Iolani all finishing with 50 points. In that case, you look to the 6th runner which made the official order as stated above.

Breanne Ball of Iolani continued her dominance in the intermediate ranks. Other local top finishers included Amanda Ishikawa (MPI - 3rd), Kacie Won (Punahou 4th), Gabi Jenkins (Mililani - 5th), Monica Woolley (Punahou - 10th), Valerie Pyun (Iolani - 11th), Cristin Lim (Iolani - 12th), Courtney Miller (Punahou 13th), Reina Furuya (Punahou 14th), Twyla Hamasaki (Iolani - 15th), Cassidy Cox (MPI - 17th), Kaylin Okuma (Punahou 18th), and Erin Masatsugu (Iolani - 19th).

I took about 2500 photos today which is quite a bit for one meet. There will be a separate gallery for intermediate boys, intermediate girls, jv boys, girls 2 mile, varsity boys and varsity girls. I also will create a gallery just for the awards. I wasn't able to cover the intermediate awards because there was a race going on at the same time.

The 5k and 10k races will be combined into one gallery. This is because there were lots of crossover finishes and I have no way of separating them.

Also, there will be a separate gallery for all HBA athletes, with a password. This is at the request of the HBA athletic director. More about this will be forthcoming in my weekly email.

If you have any questions about ordering photos, collages or posters, please email me. You will find me quick to respond and do what I can to earn your business. You may visit the galleries by clicking here. I expect all galleries to be operational by some time Sunday.