Punahou, Kalani Win Titles in Hawaii

#1 posting 5.20.2006

POINT PARADE
HAWAII
D1
Shawna-Lei Kuehu, Punahou 37 vs Roosevelt 61-39
D2
Jamie Mattos, Kamehameha Hawaii 20 vs Kalani 51-58
Courtney Gaddis, La Pietra 20 vs St. Francis 42-51

DOUBLE VISION
D2
Siutiti Takai, St. Francis 33 (19 p, 14 r) vs La Pietra 51-42
Yacine Meyer, Seabury Hall 30 (17p, 13r) vs Castle 56-59 2ot
Tiana Barbier, Seabury Hall 28 (17p, 13r) vs Castle 56-59 2ot
Poerava Gantt, Kapa'a 24 (13p, 11r) vs Hawai'i Baptist 53-32
Kanani Perry, St. Francis 20 (10p, 10r) vs La Pietra 51-42

HAWAII CHAMPIONSHIPS
Punahou won the D1 championship behind a record breaking 37 points by Shawna-Lei Kuehu. Punhou repeated as champs and has won three of the last four. Story from the Honolulu Advertiser.
Kalani won the D2 title beat defending champs Kamehameha Hawaii for their first state championship. Again the Honolulu Advertiser tells the tale.

AAU--IS IT WORTH IT?
Is AAU all it is cracked up to be? Will players find a golden road to the promised land of D1 scholarships? Is it worth the money? Tim Leighton from the St. Paul Pioneer Press searches for the answers.
MN STATE TOURNAMENT
The tournament will be held at Forest Lake on the 20th and 21st. (Saturday and Sunday)
The 19s tournament has been moved to Eden Prairie.
19s, 16s, 15s, 14s
AAU ROSTERS

COACHING NEWS
MN
Farmington has hired Jason Berg as coach. He coached the boys at Farmington from 1994-98. Story is from the This Week paper.
Missy Majerus is the new coach at Spring Lake Park. She has been the coach of Northland Community College the last two years. Northland was 3-19 last year. This is Majerus bio from Northland CC. The email on that site may not work anymore.
WI
Jeff Lebeck has been hired as the new Hortonville coach. He replaces Dave Janssen who has been charged with sexual assault. Here is the Appleton Post Crescent story

COACHING OPENINGS

DOWLING ATHLETIC DIRECTOR OUT
IA
The week long email incident took its toll as Steve Shanks resigned after being requested to submit it. Shanks ripped on the girls basketball team in the infamous email. Here is the Des Moines Register with the account.

SACAJAWEA TOURNAMENT
Venice, California will replace Louisville Christian, KY in the Sacajawea tournament held in Sioux City to be held in December.

SIGNINGS
IA/NEB
Morningside added Brooke Nelson, Crofton, NE and Leslie Foral, Chadron, NE. Nelson led her team to back to back state titles. Foral is a 6-0 pg. This is the Yankton Press & Dakotan article

Next up: the Out & Abouts will be coming pretty fast starting tonight. I will be at Forest Lake watching the 14s, 15s, and 16s today and tomorrow. The plan is to watch at least six, maybe seven games today. I will try to get some of the games out tonight. If not they will come out during the week. Add on the championship games from tomorrow and there will be plenty of games to read and players to evaluate.