By Tony Madrona, Head, Pearl City Chargers Boys Bowling
Aloha,
Just like that our season comes to an end.
Westside Champions:
Girls-
1st – Pearl City
2nd – Mililani
High game – 247
Alicen Ichimura
High series – 649
Alicen Ichimura
Boys-
1st – Mililani
2nd – Pearl City
High game – 279
Layton Higashi-Kim
High Series- 707
Renz DeGuzman
Westside All-Stars
Congratulations PCHS boys/girls
1st team:
Alicen Ichimura
Kaila Kamahiai
Zaylee Vergado
2nd team:
Journey Abadilla
POY – Alicen Ichimura
COY- Millie Gomes
All-Stars
1st team TJ Ichimura
2nd team:
Shane Savalle
Maddox Cayetano
Pearl City High Girls & Boys Bowling team Qualified to State championship.
PCHS Individual Qualifiers
Girls
Alicen Ichimura (2nd) medalist
Kaila Kamahiai (14th) medalist
Journey Abadilla (4th) medalist
Kaylee Vergado-Duclayan (8th) medalist
Haylie Ideue (23rd)
Boys
TJ Ichimura (4th) medalist
Travis Ohta (23rd)
Zander Kamoto-Rafael (12th) medalist
Shane Savalle (26th)
Maddox Cayetano (14th) medalist
Logan Uyesugi (45th)
OIA Team Champions
Girls
1st – Pearl City High School
2nd – Kalani High School
3rd – Moanalua High School
Boys
1st Castle High School
2nd Mililani High School
3rd Pearl City High School
HHSAA STATE CHAMPIONSHIP
November 6-7
The battle begins, 100 boys & 100 Girls bowlers from around our beautiful Hawaii state come together once a year in hopes of bringing home some Koa wood.
Thursday 6th
Girls & Boys team leaders after the first 5 games.
Kalani- 4038
Pchs- 3984
KS Kapalama- 3642
Mid Pac – 3527
Kalani with a slim lead over defending champions PCHS going into Friday.
On the boys side Castle came out the first game with a big 1082 team series and held the lead after the first 5 games, 259 pins over Mililani, 270 over PCHS.
Castle -4750
Mililani- 4491
PCHS- 4480
Friday 7th
With 3 games left in this HHSAA State championship.
Came down to which team wanted it more! It was an awesome display of team work and school pride!
Pearl City girls had their work cut out. They used every ounce of concentration physically , mentally and team work. In the end they repeated as HHSAA State Champions making it a 3 peat. And completed the years trifecta.
1st- Pearl City 6516
2nd- Kalani 6397
3rd- Mid Pacific 5850
With the HHSAA State Title on the line the boys of Pearl City High School made a great run as defending champions. Rolling a 3 game team series 852,1056 and 991. Coming up 254 pins short of the title. To Champions Castle High School
1st – Castle 7635
2nd – Pearl City 7381
3rd – Mililani 7088
Still the HHSAA singles title to be crowned, the day came with plenty of action.
On the girls side senior Kaila Kamahiai came on strong the last day of competition rolling games of 180,203,234. only to be 12 pins short of the singles title she wanted so bad.
Kaila was bowling with a heavy heart, but i know her grandpa was watching her the whole day.
Girls Singles HHSAA placing
1st – Kalani’s Christina Kidd
2nd- PCHS Kaila Kamahiai
3rd- Moanaluas Caytlen Oishi
4th Alicen Ichimura (medalist)
18th Journey Abadilla
21st Haylie Ideue
25th Zaylee-Ann Vergad
Boys singles title went back and forth , between PCHS TJ Ichimura and Castle’s Thomas Onodera.
TJ rolled games of 184,268,206 to take the lead. Thomas still had two more frames to decide the title. Thomas threw the last 5 strikes to win by 9 pin, and become the 2025 HHSAA State singles champion.
1st Castle Thomas Onodera
2nd PCHS TJ Ichimura
3rd Mid Pacific Kaz Yamada
12th Maddox Cayetano (medalist)
15th Shane Savalle (medalist)
18th Travis Ohta
19th Zander Kamoto-Rafael
23rd Logan Uyesugi
Huge Congratulations to the legendary Millie Gomes. this win made it her 9th HHSAA State championship and became Pearl City High Schools most winnigest bowling coach in school history. Surpassing Jimmy Hayashi with 8 State Titles.
Such a milestone for any coach. But Coach Millie is not any coach, Millie is a leader, a fighter, she’s caring , giving, she’s a loving mom to her players, she’s my partner in crime throughout her years as Pearl City’s bowling coach.
Thank you Coach Millie for letting me coach beside you all these years. I’m truly blessed.
Lastly thank you to
Principle Hoffman
AD Reid Shigemasa
Assistant AD Michael Pang
Pearl City Community
And our awesome booster parents, grand parents, uncles & aunties. For the love and support you all have shown throughout the season.
Till next year
“One Heart One Beat “
Photos by Jorden Yamamura and Tony Madrona
