Braden Flinn and Noah Harris put together stellar performances Saturday to help Guam High’s football team keep their playoff hopes alive.
Cassandra Jarzabek led comfortably through the first few hundred meters of Monday’s Far East cross country race, when she angled sharply around a goalpost – what she thought was the first major turn of the race.
Unhappy with the situation his Samurai faced on fourth-and-20 deep in their own territory, Daniel Burns decided to go against the odds – and punter Preston Ramirez answered the call.
Ryunosuke Roesch had to borrow a racket from Yokota coach Tommy Palmer for Friday’s Far East finals matches.
With Casey Bumpers sidelined for much of the last month, Yokota struggled to get yards and points. But no sooner did he return that the Panthers’ offense came alive.
After being bottled up by Nile C. Kinnick’s defense a week earlier on the road, Carlos Cadet provided plenty of yardage and scoring fuel for a Kubasaki team that’s headed to the Far East Division I football final.
If the best offense is a good defense, Kadena’s secondary served as a poster-child example Saturday.
Twenty-five years apart, Lisa Cummings showed she’s just as capable of winning Far East Division II volleyball tournament titles as a setter and a coach.
Kubasaki ran the table in the DODEA-Pacific Division I football season, going 5-0 including a season-series sweep of arch-rival and defending Far East champion Kadena.
Singles players and mixed doubles duo give Samurai an early advantage in D-II finals; girls and boys doubles play starts Thursday.Singles players and mixed doubles duo give Samurai an early advantage in D-II finals; girls and boys doubles play starts Thursday.
Defending a Far East tennis title takes more than waving a team banner or individual first-place medal at opponents.
Things were looking mighty good for E.J. King in last October’s Far East Division II girls volleyball tournament final, after the Cobras took the first set 25-16 over host Yokota.
That was the case Friday as American School in Japan got on the scoreboard first via a hook-and-lateral run of 58 yards by Micah Eickbush en route to a season-ending 36-15 win over Humphreys at Mustang Valley.
A pair of senior running backs came up big for Kubasaki, which captured the top seed Friday in next week’s Far East Division I semifinals.
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