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ISSUE 12: Spring ‘26

Kane Cup
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Hawaiian Hammahs pound out back-to-back 16U championships in 2026 Hawaiʻi Luau!

9-1 start in third set results in three-set win for Hawaiian Hammahs in 16U division!

Mathew Vasconcellos, 7GEN Sportswriter

Photos By: Cory & Alycia

Sunday, June 19, 2026

It was all about starting runs and finishing strong!

The Hawaiian Hammahs used an early 9-1 run in the third set to pound out back-to-back 16U division championships in a 3-set win over goatflow5, 21-19, 19-21, and 15-8, at Kailua District Park on Sunday!

Both teams were neck and neck at the drop of the gates in the first set! They split the first four points, but an Eden Savaiigaea ace generated a mini 4-0 Hawaiian Hammahs run to take a small 5-2 lead!

The Hawaiian Hammahs pushed through and came back to tie the score at 19, but goatflow5 lucked out with a kill and another long Hawaiian Hammahs serve that ended the second set with the 21-19 win to force a third set.

“We were also really tired from the previous game before that – we went to three,” said Holani-Frank.

With their backs against the wall, goatflow5 had no choice but to rally and gave themselves an outside chance!

Mililani resident Eden Kruse executed a service ace as part of an eleventh hour 5-1 run for goatflow5 and trailed 14-8, but that was the closest they got!

The Hawaiian Hammahs slammed the door with a kill to take set three, 15-8, and the championship!

Holani-Frank plans to celebrate with her team by hitting one of the beaches to jump in the water and cool off.

The goatflow5 team responded back to retake the lead with a massive 13-4 run with six unanswered to take a 16-11 lead, but the Hawaiian Hammahs did not back down.

During that 13-4 goatflow5 run, the Hawaiian Hammahs pounded out a 7-2 run themselves to get back in contention!

The Hawaiian Hammahs wrestled control again and turned that 7-2 run into a 12-4 run overall to end the first set. Savaiigaea put the nail in the coffin with a kill to win the first set, 21-19!

Set two saw a strong start for Hawaiian Hammahs. Talia Mamea, a student at Mililani High School, drew first blood and turned it into an early 5-3 lead.

As the set reached double-digits for both teams, goatflow5 got back in the game due to multiple Hawaiian Hammah errors. It resulted in a 6-1 goatflow5 run to take a 19-15 lead.

“A lot of the points they had were off of our errors,” said Sanoe Holani-Frank, who attends University Lab School.

The final set was all the Hawaiian Hammahs! A Mamea block started an immediate 9-1 run out of the gates! That included two aces, one from Holani-Frank, and was punctuated on a Gabriella Ho-Lucas kill!

Ho-Lucas also plays club soccer for Leahi.

e’Lexxia Poland executed a kill for goatflow5 to end that run, but Savaiigaea, Ho-Lucas, and Mamea fired back for Hawaiian Hammahs to take a 13-3 lead!

“I had it in me and was like, ‘I’m not losing this game!’” said Holani-Frank. “I think we all had it in us!”

Alycia Photos Luau

Pure ALOHA 18U-1 celebrates with 18U championship in Endless Summer!

Vital 7-1 surge gives Pure ALOHA 18U-1 18U division championship!

Sunday, June 21, 2026
Mathew Vasconcellos
Photos: Alycia Ehara, Cory Ida

Father’s Day got extra special!

The Pure ALOHA 18U-1 Volleyball Team said “Happy Father’s Day” with an 18U division championship via a two-set sweep, 25-23 and 25-13, over Outrigger Canoe Club 17 in the 2026 Endless Summer Tournament at Hawaiʻi Convention Center on Sunday!

In the first set, OCC Outside Hitter Seizo Sexton #10, a Punahou High School student, drew first blood, but Pure ALOHA 18U-1 was not going to be denied.

Both teams tied three times out of the gates, but Pure ALOHA 18U-1 took the lead for good off a kill from Middle Blocker Jaeden Miyahana #12 with the score tied at three! It kickstarted a 9-5 Pure ALOHA 18U run to take a handful of a lead. Miyahana is a graduate of Kāmehameha-Kapalama with a 4.0 GPA.

OCC tried to make some pushes and had a chance at the win in the waning moments. Fellow Outside Hitter Joshua Kauhane #21, another Punahou student, picked up the slack to keep OCC in contention with some critical aces and kills. Kauhane and Sexton aided in a 5-1 OCC run with two kills each, and OCC was down one, 24-23!

Pure ALOHA 18U Outside Hitter Jarryn McCutcheon #3, a Moanalua High School student and 2026-27 Santa Monica College commit, saved his team from overtime with a critical kill to end the first set with the 25-23 win!

“We just needed to make our serves and passes better, and we would’ve won,” Kauhane said.

The second set saw another similar start from both teams, but Pure ALOHA 18U-1 busted through the dam first!

Pure ALOHA held an 8-5 lead when an OCC miscue triggered a momentum-turning 7-1 run which included three straight aces, two from Outside Hitter Maluhia Tandal #13, a student at Hilo High School!

“This was another day at the office,” Tandal said.

From that point on, it was checkmate, and Pure ALOHA never let their gap dip under seven the rest of the way. Tandal and McCutcheon scored the last two points for Pure ALOHA to complete the two-set sweep with the 25-13 victory!

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HNLV triumphs in four sets to win 18U division of Hawaiʻi Club Volleyball Championships!

5/9/26 Mathew Vasconcellos
Photos: Alycia Ehara, Cory Ida

The HNLV 16 Volleyball Club came firing back to win the 18U Championship in the Hawaiʻi Club Volleyball Championship in four sets over Jammers 17 Tysen, 22-25, 25-8, 25-9, and 25-12 at Windward Mall on Saturday!

Set one was all about the Jammers, as they controlled the momentum early over HNL! Outside Hitter #4 Kadence Wilson scored the first two, which included a service ace, for an early 2-0 lead! Wilson will graduate in 2026 from Mililani High School.

HNL came back to tie the score on several occasions, but Jammers responded each time to not outright surrender the lead! That was only a prelude of what was to come for HNL in the final three sets though.

In the closing stages, HNL Middle Blocker Emma Amaral-Boyd #8 scored a block and a kill to tie Jammers at 21, but Jammers responded with four of the final five points to end the first set! Amaral-Boyd led the University Lab Junior ‘Bows with 33 kills this past season!

Wilson scored the final two kills to win set one for Jammers, 25-22!

Jammers got off to another good start in set two with two of the first three points scored, but HNL was just warming up!

Both teams were neck and neck with HNL leading, 6-5, and they hit its stride!

A long hit from the Jammers, and a kill from #13 Alissa Painter generated a momentum-turning 15-2 HNL run, including 10 unanswered, to turn that 6-5 deficit into a 21-7 lead!

HNL ultimately ran away with the set two win, 25-8!

HNL spared Jammers the first point of set three, but they immediately attained control out of the gates!

There was no stopping #24 Makamaeolilihoku Schilling, who scored two blocks and a kill as part of nine straight points in a massive 14-2 HNL run to take a 14-3 lead! Libero Saydee Vera Cruz #10, a 4.0 student at Pearl City High School who led the Chargers with 53 digs last season, added back-to-back service aces herself to punctuate those nine straight points scored!

“We were all a little in our head, but we all came out of it,” said Schilling of that first set.

Jammers were able to score and apply tourniquets, but HNL was far from done! Jammers were ultimately held to only six points the rest of the way!

HNL ended the third set on another massive 11-6 surge to take set three, 25-9!

In set four, both teams were evenly matched out of the gates. HNL was the first to uncork a significant run once again!

With a 7-5 lead, HNL ignited a mini 5-1 run to double up on Jammers, 12-6! HNL then went on another 9-4 run to ultimately run away to the tune of a 21-10 gap!

HNL scored four of the final six, which included the last three straight, to win set four, 25-12, and ultimately, the 18U Championship!

Schilling plans to celebrate with ice cream with her teammates and dinner with her own family.

18U Final

SAS VBC G 15 Randy wins back-to-back championships in 16U division in the Hawaiʻi Club Volleyball Championships!

5/9/26 Mathew Vasconcellos
Photos: Alycia Ehara, Cory Ida

The Spike And Serve Volleyball Club G 15 Randy triumphed in a thrilling three-set sweep over Ka Ulu Koa 16 Taylor, 25-21, 25-14, and 25-23 in the 16U division of the 2026 Hawaiʻi Club Volleyball Championships at Windward Mall on Saturday!

SAS spared the first two points to Ka Ulu Koa, but Middle Blocker Hanna Dziadurski #13 got SAS on the board with a kill. SAS and Ka Ulu Koa were neck and neck most of the way after that! Along with Punahou High School, Dziadurski also attended Acadia Festival of Traditional Music and Dance where she played the violin in 2022!

Neither team had a lead bigger than three points! SAS took the lead for good, 11-10, off a kill from #8 Alexis Kawakami. A service error on the next possession almost cost them, but Ka Ulu Koa committed a service error themselves, which resulted in SAS scoring four straight points to take a 15-11 lead. Kawakami will graduate from Iolani School in 2029!

SAS did not lose the lead after that, but they had to withstand a lot of pushes from Ka Ulu Koa! Ka Ulu Koa got within one on two occasions, but SAS uncorked a critical 6-3 surge to match its biggest lead of four, 22-18! It was punctuated by a kill from #22 Waiaulia Holts! Holts attends Punahou School despite being from Kaneohe.

Ka Ulu Koa scored three straight to cut the gap to one, 22-21, but SAS responded with three unanswered of their own to take set one, 25-21!

Both teams were neck and neck out of the gates in set two! With the score tied at six off a kill from Ka Ulu Koa’s Right Side Hitter #11 Arja Crawford, SAS unleashed a momentum-shifting 12-3 run and doubled up on Ka Ulu Koa, 18-9!

From that point on, it was checkmate, and SAS won the second set going away, 25-14!

With their backs against the wall, Ka Ulu Koa had to win set three to delay a possible celebration for SAS, and in set three, they had a chance!

Outside Hitter Aspen Taylor Hanohano #30 drew first blood, and teammate #7 Piʻinaʻe Vaughan, a native of Kauai, added a second kill for an early 2-0 Ka Ulu Koa lead! Hanohano hopes to pursue a degree in law or forensic science.

SAS was just getting started though, and a Ka Ulu Koa service error resulted in back-to-back points scored to tie things up.

Both teams were neck and neck once again! With SAS leading, 14-12, Ka Ulu Koa uncorked a 7-1 run, including five unanswered, that was punctuated by a service ace from Outside Hitter #20 Adrienne Monlux to make it a 19-15 Ka Ulu Koa lead!

Despite the gap, Opposite Hitter E’Lexxia Poland #1 still felt her team had Ka Ulu Koa where they wanted them and had no doubt it would go to a fourth set!

“I was confident,” said Poland. “I knew we were going to pull through no matter what.”

SAS responded with three straight to pull within one, 19-18. Despite sparing two more points to Ka Ulu Koa, SAS got the last laugh via a 7-2 run to end the third set! The 25-23 win was punctuated on back-to-back kills from Mary Jean McManus Gago #7 and Poland!

“We give all our glory to God!” said Poland. “We wouldn’t be here without Him! Without each other, our trust within our coaches, our system, we wouldn’t be here!”

Poland plans to celebrate with dinner with her family.

16U PHOTOS

Ike Loa earns 14U division championship in Hawaiʻi Club Volleyball Championships!

Mathew Vasconcellos
Photos: Alycia Ehara, Cory Ida

It was an adrenaline-filled Saturday afternoon at Windward Mall, and Ike Loa 14’s Paki put a W on their mantle over 808 Athletic Club 14 Sheri, 25-19, 25-18, 23-25, and 26-24 to win the 14U division in the Hawaiʻi Club Volleyball Championship!

Ike Loa’s Outside Hitter Melia Purcell #25 drew first blood with a service ace! Teammate and fellow Outside Hitter Chaya Delos Reyes #5 added a kill to take an early 2-0 lead for Ike Loa!

808AC 14 got on the board on the next possession, and it was a dogfight from then on. Both teams tied five times before both cracked 10 points each.

Delos Reyes executed a kill to kickstart a 7-2 Ike Loa run! It was punctuated on a kill from teammate Aria Prem #48, and it was 17-12, Ike Loa! Their lead never dipped below three after that! Prem has a peak ELO of 1772 currently.

At the end of the first set, Ike Loa won, 25-19!

Set two saw a nip and tuck battle with four ties in the first eight points. With the score tied at four, Ike Loa hit its stride via a 19-7 run, including three service aces from Outside Hitter Sage McDaniels #15!

808AC did not give in and tried to rally. A kill from Middle Blocker Payton Lauden #97 ignited a 5-1 surge until a net violation stopped their push and left the gap at seven, 24-17.

After sparing 808AC one more point, Ike Loa put the clamps on set two with a regular point for the 25-18 win!

In set three, 808AC scored the first three points, but Ike Loa responded with five of the next six to take a 5-4 lead!

808AC responded with a 5-1 surge themselves that put them up, 9-6!

Ike Loa did not back down and made it a game again. They traded points with 808AC until they tied at 14 off a Prem kill! Both teams did not see a lead of more than three until the closing stages.

“We let them slide back in the third set, but in the second set, I felt like, ‘We can do this!’” said Ike Loa Setter Elsie Frasier #10.

Both teams were tied at 23 off a long serve from 808AC, but it was 808AC that got the final say when Ike Loa served the ball too long! 808AC took set three, 25-23, and prevented a clean sweep.

Both teams were nip and tuck in the beginning of set four! 808AC uncorked an early 6-2 surge, but Ike Loa did not back down and take it to a fifth set! Neither team could attain more than a three-point lead, just like in set three.

They traded points left and right until overtime was needed to settle things; however, Ike Loa got the last say with two straight points with the score tied at 24 and emerged victorious, 26-24!

“They beat us in TransPAC [TransPacific] in the finals, so we just really wanted to seek redemption, and I think that motivated us to play good today!” said Frasier.

Frasier’s teammates also relayed plans to celebrate with a pizza party!

14U PHOTOS

808AC 12 hits pay dirt with 12U championship!

Mathew Vasconcellos
Photos: Alycia Ehara, Cory Ida

The 808 Athletic Club 12s hit the jackpot at Windward Mall on Saturday over Ka Ulu Koa 12 Larry with the Hawaiʻi Club Volleyball Championship in the 12U division in four sets, 25-20, 20-25, 25-17, and 25-19!

Ka Ulu Koa’s Luavaʻasiʻitia Soʻoalo #2, a student at Maryknoll School, drew first blood with a kill and aided in an early 4-2 lead!

808AC 12 began to get some momentum in their corner and tied Ka Ulu Koa on three occasions. They tied the score at seven on a Ka Ulu Koa service error, and that ignited a 5-1 surge to go up, 12-8!

Ka Ulu Koa did not back down and scored four of the next five points to get within one, 13-12. It was punctuated by a Raylee Raymond kill! #22 Raymond is a Windward Oahu resident living in Waimanalo.

808AC 12 put the game in their favor via an 8-3 run, including five unanswered! That started with a kill from Leilani Magno #10! Despite sparing three straight points to Ka Ulu Koa, 808AC 12 were up, 21-15!

Ka Ulu Koa answered with five straight after that; their run was punctuated on a Kailey Nguyen block, and Ka Ulu Koa trailed, 21-20, just like that! #10 Nguyen has a peak ELO of 1711.

808AC 12 did not self-destruct and scored the final four points, including two service aces from #2 Amelia-Rose Kikumu-Donato to win the first set, 25-20!

Ka Ulu Koa came out with fire in set two!

After sparing a service ace to 808AC’s Camille Lomavita #23, Ka Ulu Koa went on a 9-2 run, including five consecutive service aces from #3 Matalasi Ainuʻu! The run was punctuated by a kill from #5 Mailelagi Satele-Willis! Ka Ulu Koa led 9-3, just like that!

“I was just talking to my team, and I was like, ‘We gotta start stepping our game, and we gotta focus!’” said Lomavita of those five straight aces.

808AC 12 found an answer to that run with five straight of their own that began with a Ka Ulu Koa service error, and they were now down, 9-8! Their run was punctuated on a kill from #32 Hayden Tavares Gernler!

Ka Ulu Koa responded with an 8-2 run of their own, punctuated by another Nguyen kill to take a 17-10 lead! Despite a 6-2 808AC run, Ka Ulu Koa still won set two, 25-20 after Nguyen effectively ended the second set with another kill!

Set three saw another close battle between both teams! 808AC held a 5-4 lead, but a service error allowed Ka Ulu Koa to get back in their neighborhood!

Three straight service aces from Ka Ulu Koa’s Raymond were part of a 6-0 surge until a long hit halted that run! Despite that, Ka Ulu Koa held a 10-5 lead prior to that long hit, but that was all 808AC 12 needed!

808AC 12 responded with a 16-6 run of their own to turn a five-point deficit into a five-point lead, 21-16! They were not done though, as they scored four of the final five points to win the third set, 25-17!

“We played them a couple times,” said Lomavita. “We just believed in ourselves and had confidence, and we did it!”

Set four was the definition of a thriller! Both teams tied five times before they cracked 10 points!

Neither team held a lead of more than three until the closing stages! 808AC 12 scored five of the next six following a tie at 17 to take a 22-18 lead! That was all they needed, and a service ace ultimately ended the fourth set with 808AC 12 on top, 25-19!

Lomavita won the Most Valuable Player award, but she was unsure on how she’ll celebrate; she will have two reasons to celebrate because her sister is graduating college on Saturday night!

12U PHOTOS

SAS VBC G 15 Randy reigns supreme with two-set sweep in 16U 2026 Oceanic Open championship!

Sunday, May 3, 2026
Mathew Vasconcellos
Photos: Alycia Ehara, Cory Ida

The Spike and Serve Volleyball Club Girls 15 Randy was able to ward off an eleventh-hour push from Ka Ulu Koa 14 Tanya to win the 2026 Oceanic Open 16U Championship match in a two-set sweep, 25-14 and 25-20, at the Hawaiʻi Convention Center on Sunday!

The win for SAS VBC G 15 Randy was massive because they are now officially in the Hawaiʻi Club Volleyball Championships starting on Thursday, May 7. The top eight teams qualify, and SAS VBC G 15 Randy, who previously sat on the bubble in ninth, jumped up to fourth overall with 534 points.

Ka Ulu Koa drew first blood with a service ace, but SAS roared back to score six of the next eight points to take a 6-3 lead early!

SAS led from then on and forced Ka Ulu Koa to repeatedly start from scratch after a point scored. SAS would ultimately lock up the first set and end it on a 17-7 run, including 10 unanswered! Mary Jean McManus Gago delivered the game-winning kill to win the first set, 25-14!

“Our team came out a little flat, but then we started finding connections with each other,” said Ka Ulu Koa Outside Hitter Eden Savaiigaea of that slow start in the first set.

Set two was a much different story.

Both teams were nip and tuck in the opening few minutes. They were tied on seven occasions before the 10-point mark.

SAS trailed early, 8-7, but they broke the game wide open with a 9-1 run, including five unanswered, that began with a service ace! Just like that, SAS found themselves up, 16-9!

Ka Ulu Koa had no choice but to rally back, and they nearly pulled it off. They went on a 5-1 run that was punctuated by a kill from Setter Jaeli Mauafu and pulled within three, 17-14! Mauafu currently has an ELO rating of 1717.

SAS lucked out after a Ka Ulu Koa service error on the next possession. It allowed SAS to uncork a 7-2 surge that put them up, 23-16!

Ka Ulu Koa did not give up and tried to rally back at the eleventh hour to force a third set! They scored the next four unanswered to pull within three, 23-20, but a service error on the next possession took the wind out of Ka Ulu Koa’s sails.

SAS Setter Kanoe Kostiha rose to the occasion with the game-winning kill to win set two, 25-20, and complete the sweep!

“I knew my team was going to be there for me,” Kostiha said. “We’re definitely on a high, and I think this is probably the best game that we’ve played the whole entire tournament!”

Kostiha went on to say her team celebrates with dinner with each other after the first practice following tournaments like the Oceanic Open.

Despite her team getting swept, Ka Ulu Koa’s Savaiigaea plans on celebrating herself with seafood.

Day 1 (Lindy)

Day 1 (Alycia)

Day 1 (Cory)

16U Final

Rally Point

808AC 12U

Day 2 (Alycia)

Team Photos

Pili Paʻa Na Wahine VBC gets final say in Spam Slam 14U championship!

Sunday, April 12, 2026
Mathew Vasconcellos
Photos: Alycia Ehara, Cory Ida

Pilipa’a now in the top 5!

It was a battle between the northern and southern Hawaiian Islands, and the Big Island’s Pili Paʻa Na Wahine Volleyball Club 14 got the two-set sweep, 25-22, and 25-22, over Kauai’s Ike Loa 14’s Paki in the 14U division of the 2026 Spam Slam Tournament at Hawaiʻi Convention Center on Sunday!

The first set saw Ike Loa’s Outside Hitter, Chaya Delos Reyes, strike first via a good kill for the early 1-0 lead. Both teams were nip and tuck through the first leg of the first set. Reyes has an ELO rating of 1781.

Both teams were tied at 3-3 when Pili Paʻa used a 7-2 run to take a 10-5 lead! There was no stopping Middle Blocker Aria Onaga that night, as she was solely responsible for four kills alone in that 7-2 Pili Paʻa surge! Onaga currently has a 14U rank of 798.

“I just knew I could do it, and I just swung,” Onaga said.

Ike Loa showed they had just as much fight and came back to tie things up at 17 via a 12-7 run, including five unanswered. Their run was punctuated on a kill from Setter Elsie Frazier, who currently has an ELO rating of 1781 as well!

Pili Paʻa answered the bell in time with five unanswered themselves that began with an Abigail Agorastos kill. Teammate Haley Kuamoo got a service ace while Onaga tacked on another two kills and a block. Ike Loa tried to mount a late rally and got within two, 22-20, but Pili Paʻa slammed the door with two more Onaga kills, and Ezri Ganir delivered the game-winning kill to win the first set, 25-22!

Ike Loa began set two with a service ace, but Pili Paʻa scored four of the next six points to take a 5-3 lead. Ike Loa scored three unanswered, which included a Reyes service ace, and took a 6-5 lead, but that did not last very long.

Outside Hitter Sage McDaniels, who has a 14U rank of 186, felt her team could have played better with better ball control and more communication.

“I think it went wrong with our passing,” said McDaniels. “We were kinda tired in that last game.”

Pili Paʻa used a 6-1 run with three more Onaga kills to retake the lead, 11-7, and create some distance. Although Ike Loa pulled within one, 12-11, after a Frazier kill, Pili Paʻa was not to be denied.

Another Onaga kill and two more Agorastos kills generated an 8-1 Pili Paʻa run to take a 20-12 lead, but it was far from over.

With their backs against the wall, Ike Loa had no choice but to try to rally again, and they had a legitimate chance to take it to a third set.

Ike Loa was able to bust through the dam due to four straight Pili Paʻa service errors! It was the start of a critical 9-2 run that again put them down by one, 22-21!

Pili Paʻa’s Ganir stopped that run with a kill, and Onaga punctuated the win with two more kills, which included the game winner, to total 13 kills on the night and complete the sweep with the 25-22 score! They had held Ike Loa to a single McDaniels kill in the final four possessions.

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Day 2 Pt.1 (Alycia Ehara)

Day 2 Pt.2 (Alycia Ehara)

North Shore Volleyball Club sweeps HNL Volleyball 16 to win 18U gold!

Sunday, March 8, 2026
Mathew Vasconcellos
Photos: Alycia Ehara

The North Shore Volleyball Club came to play and swept Honolulu Volleyball Club 16, 25-21 and 25-16, to win the gold in the 18U division of the 2026 Shave Ice Cup at Hawaiʻi Convention Center on Sunday!

The first set saw North Shore VBC start with an immediate 7-2 run, including the first three consecutive. They were able to maintain control for much of the first set.

HNL tried to make some pushes, but three points was the closest they could get.

North Shore VBC took advantage of some HNL errors whether service or out balls. With North Shore leading, 17-13, they hit its stride again to the tune of a 7-2 surge! That was punctuated by a service ace from setter Elenoa Lauhingoa, ScoringLive’s 2025 All-OIA Division I Player of the Year!

HNL was not done, despite being down eight, 23-15, after that Lauhingoa service ace. Middle Blocker Kawena Palaualelo, a Kailua native who attends Punahou High School, executed a block to begin a 5-0 HNL run to try to save what hopes were left. They trailed, 23-20, until a service error impeded their progress.

Although HNL Outside Hitter Makamaeolilihoku Schilling got a kill after that, North Shore’s Lauhingoa shut the door with a kill on the next possession to put the first set away, 25-21! Schilling received All State Fab 15 recognition at number nine this past January.

HNL got out to a better start in set two and took an early 6-2 lead after a kill from Outside Hitter Alissa Painter. The lead did not last long.

North Shore hit its stride again to the tune of a 12-3 run punctuated by a Lauhingoa kill to take a 14-9 lead!

“We were holding back a little bit, but our coach gave us a good speech: ‘Don’t hold back! We’re here already! We might as well finish!’” said Setter Ireson Fotu.

Fotu, who tallied an impressive 42 assists for Kahuku High School in 2025, aided in some critical kills for North Shore to help keep control in that second set.

HNL tried to make some pushes, but like the first set, they could not get closer than three points.

North Shore VBC continued to pull away and won set two on a long serve from HNL’s Schilling. It punctuated what was a 7-2 North Shore run to end the second set and completed the sweep with the 25-16 victory!