The Big Island Intersholastic Federation (BIIF) winter sports season continued Monday with soccer playoffs and basketball matchups. The season continues today with the BIIF Division I Girls Soccer Championship and more hoops games.<\/p>\n
Soccer<\/p>\n
Waiakea and Hilo girls soccer advanced to this afternoon\u2019s BIIF DI championship after shutout wins. The Lady Warriors beat Kealakehe 4-0 at home, while the Vik Queens won 2-0 on their home pitch. Hilo improved to 6-3-0, while Kona fell to 4-4-1. Waiakea elevated to an impressive 7-1-1, while the Lady Waveriders dropped to 2-6-0.<\/p>\n
The crosstown rivalry between the two Hilo schools will serve as the second matchup this season. On Jan. 12, the Lady Warriors beat the Vik Queens 4-0. Waiakea has a 43-4 goal differential this season, one of the best on the island. Hilo has a 39-11 scoring differential.<\/p>\n
See the paper later this week for wrap-up coverage of both BIIF soccer tournaments (Division I and II).<\/p>\n
Hoops<\/p>\n
Kamehameha-Hawaii boys basketball won its fourth straight game in dominant fashion, routing Kealakehe 86-39 in Kea\u2018au. It was the second time the Warriors bested the Waveriders in 2025-26.<\/p>\n
Kolten Tabuyo-Kahele led KSH with a game-high 20 points with six 3s, followed by teammate Kawohi Huihui with 18, Davedon Cabreros with 11 and Kaikuakea Kahana-Rowe with 10. Huihui leads the 12-6 Warriors at 17.2 points per game this season, while KSH averages 58 points per game as a team.<\/p>\n
Noah Quebral led Kealakehe with 17 points, while teammate Kaimana Heu-Duarte had seven. The \u2018Riders, now 1-12, average nearly 43 points per game against the BIIF.<\/p>\n
The Warriors will be back in action against Waiakea on Friday at home. When the two teams last met last month, KSH won 66-23.<\/p>\n
Kealakehe will rematch Konawaena on Saturday at home. The \u2018Riders lost 69-39 to the green and white when they matched up last week in Kealakekua.<\/p>\n
The KSH girls wrapped up their regular season with a sixth straight win \u2014 routing Ka\u2018u 57-37 in Pahala to finish 12-7 heading into island playoffs. The Lady Warriors\u2019 next matchup is to be determined as of Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n
Shailan Benevides, who leads KSH with 11.4 points per game, scored a game-high 18 points. Teammates Mya Wong and Peyton Kalai each scored 10. The Lady Warriors average nearly 39 points per game against the BIIF this season.<\/p>\n
The Lady Trojans, who dropped to 1-8, were spearheaded by Jaylee Navarro and Shaylie Martinez, who each scored 13.<\/p>\n
Ka\u2018u next hosts Kohala on Friday night in Pahala.<\/p>\n
The Waiakea girls won their sixth consecutive game \u2014 this time 44-27 over Honoka\u2018a at home to elevate to 16-1 overall. The Lady Dragons dropped to 2-9.<\/p>\n
Lady Warriors star Bryia Carenio scored a season-high 29 points, while teammates Tesziah Towata, Hayden Omoto and Haylee Toomey combined for 15. Waiakea averages over 47 points per game.<\/p>\n
Ava Tabucbuc and Adehza Torres combined for 15 points to lead Honoka\u2018a. The Lady Dragons average under 28 points per game.<\/p>\n
Both teams will return to action tonight, with Waiakea hosting Hilo and the Lady Dragons traveling to Waimea to take on Ka Makani. See Thursday\u2019s paper to read coverage.<\/p>\n
The Konawaena boys won their second straight game after a 42-38 road victory over Kea\u2018au. Freshman phenom Nainoa Galletes led the Wildcats with 10 points, while William Kirklin led the Cougars with 18.<\/p>\n
Kona (9-11 overall), averaging 54.4 points per game against the BIIF, will host Honoka\u2018a on Thursday night inside Ellison Onizuka Gymnasium.<\/p>\n
Kea\u2018au (5-6 overall) next goes to Hilo High to take on the Vikings on Friday. When the two schools last met, Hilo won 53-44.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Big Island Intersholastic Federation (BIIF) winter sports season continued Monday with soccer playoffs and basketball matchups. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21928,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[610,9,24,63,26559,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-109321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-local","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-prep-sports","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}