Fri, August 15, 2025 @ paire [ 7:30 pm ]
Fawsfurur – forever For at least a year, the Knife Cane Trophy will remain in Ewa Beach.
N ° 6 Campbell made an suffocating defensive effort and scored 14 points from the fourth quarter to withdraw from n ° 10 Waipahu, 21-6, during a non-Ligue football match in Masa Yonamine Athletic Complex Friday evening.
The sabers have improved at 2-0 this season, while the marauders fell to 1-1.
“We have done good things, we also had a few missed assignments, but you are still winning the victory and the race and we take the victory and run,” said Campbell’s veteran coach Darren Johnson, while escorting his players from the post-match handshake line directly to their pending buses.
Campbell’s defense was up against an offense by Waipahu which posted 37 points and 422 yards in total in a victory against Leilehua a week earlier.
Friday, the Marauders were limited to 142 net yards. They achieved some success by running the ball with the fast ball Tristan Pacheco representing 60 yards in 16 races, but they only had 2.3 yards per team race.
The two defenses launched a laundering until the sabers broke the seal at the end of the first quarter.
During the scoring game, the quarter-arre Elijah Mendoza took place on the right before finding Shaison Kupukaa on the right rear area of the goal area for a touch of 16 yards with 1:19 to play in the opening period.
Mendoza’s TD pass has crowned a trip to seven games that took almost five minutes of the time. Campbell began possession with a favorable position on the ground – three meters in the territory of Waipahu – after Xayden Zade EA was able to block a shift in Waipuhu, which was recovered by his teammate Jeovanny Maghamil -Avilla just beyond the midfield.
Campbell converted twice into the third bass – including a completion of 25 yards from Mendoza to Kupukaa and three games later, a six yards by Adrian James Letua – to reach the 1 yards of the marauders. However, the consecutive penalties for helping the runner (five meters) and an offensive outfit (10 yards) supported the sabers until the 16th.
The deepest penetration of Waipahu in the first half was at the line of 45 yards from Campbell, where it faced a third and 1. However, the Kale Lundvall of Campbell approached Lyric Anuue for a loss of 10 yards on an internal transfer and the marauders were forced to kick.
The sabers reached the red zone during their first journey of the first half, but have seen time run before it being able to transform it into points. Their 7-0 advance held up to 2:25 in the third quarter.
Twelve games after Christopher Togiai found an interception off the quarter-back of the Campbell Brayden Medeiros reserve, Arona Liaina struck a 3 yards TD race to obtain the marauders on the dashboard. Liaina’s diving in Pay Dirt culminated a 55 yards training which included two third conversions and a fourth conversion.
On the score game, Waipuhu left the group in a training of central-pattes-that is to say 10 players in a single file behind the center-before moving to a Jumbo package with several additional blockers for Liaina, a 5-foot 11 inch, 215 pounds, which received the direct snot and a barrel through the left side of the scrolling line and the end area.
The marauders almost took the lead without an abandoned pass at the back of the goal area during the conversion to two points which followed.
Waipahu coach Bryson Carvalho said the lost opportunity in his post-match comments.
“I told our guys at halftime that this game was going to be summed up with very few games and it would simply depend if we do them or not. A perfect example was going to do it on the paw,” said Carvalho.
“We dropped the ball on this one. If we were advancing, it would have been a huge momentum, but it was just this type of game. Each little game counts and hats in Campbell at the end of the day,” he added.
The sabers responded to the scoring of the marauders by making the favor on their very next possession.
After Brystin Sansano returned the start near the midfield, Campbell orchestrated a road of eight games and 53 yards which was crowned by a TD of 4 yards by Letua. It was put in place by a course of 14 yards by James Tuazon, only one game before.
“It was really big. It was really a great finish of this campaign because it gave us a momentum,” said Johnson.
The possession that followed from Waipahu was suddenly interrupted seven games when the second austyn Filoteo made a interception jumping from a pass of David Vidinha in the middle to restore the ball to Campbell to his own line of 43 yards.
“The series before I rushed, I didn’t really settle myself, so the following series, I just had to look at the QB, look at his eyes and look at it and that was a bit what made me take the choice. We sent one of our guys (on a blitz) and my mentality was just to settle down and concentrate and conceive and receive the game call.”
The sabers moved the chains twice at the third bottom and finally finished the journey with a pass of 25 yards on the left key line of Medeiros to a Pasion of Zayne Strike for their second hit in less than five minutes.
Compared to its production of 50 points in the rout last week of Moanalua, the Campbell offensive sprayed for much of the night against an annoying defensive unit of Waipahu.
The sabers were limited to only six first half-time trials.
“Knowing that our offense was struggling, we just had to go there as a team and as a defense to close it and go there and support the offense and it was important for us,” said Filoteo.
Letua carried 18 times and ran for a summit of 62 yards. Medeiros completed 15 of his 24 passing attempts for 174 yards with an interception. Mendoza launched for 67 yards out of 6 out of 14 without choice before giving way to Medeiros in the middle of the second quarter.
Kupukaa finished with five receptions for 118 yards, Pasion collected half a dozen catches for 73 yards and Sansano, a converted ball carrier, lowered seven receptions for 39 yards.
Campbell recorded 10 of its first 16 Downs in total after half-time. It was 7 out of 15 at third and 1 in 2 on the fourth stockings.
“I thought that our guys had played well, our defense especially. They really played hard. They entered difficult situations, especially in the first half and were able to overcome, but at the end of the day, Campbell just made more games. I think that in advance, they really drew on the ball, picked up a heap of keys and that was made to a few games.
The sabers were penalized 145 times for 145 yards, including four personal faults.
“Although we had a lot of penalties, the children played much more disciplined this evening than before, so we are progressing. Our schedule works for us, so I hope we culminate at the right time,” said Johnson.
Campbell won 11 of his last 12 games against Waipahu in the series which dates back to 1963.
Marauders always have an advantage of 30-16-1 of all time on the sabers.
The teams play for the Perpetual Cane Knife trophy, a decorative stainless steel blade engraved with the dozens of games between schools, both located in communities with solid historical links with the sugar cane industry.
Waipahu, who went from the division open to D1 this year, will have a bye next week before opening the OIA conference game against Kaiser on August 29 at Yonamine Athletic Complex.
Campbell, who reached the semi-finals of the state of the division opened a year ago, will continue the non-banged part of her calendar when she faces Keaau at the Alvin Nagasako sports complex in Kapolei next Saturday.
