OKINAWA

(Stars and Stripes)

KADENA AIR BASE, Okinawa – If the best offense is a good defense, Kadena’s secondary served as a poster-child example Saturday.

Hajime Reed and Neil Kentish each returned interceptions for touchdowns and the Panthers scored 22 unanswered second-half points to pull away from Humphreys 39-20 in the second of two DODEA-Pacific Division I football semifinals.

“Humphreys was tough. They didn’t make it easy. But our kids stepped up,” said assistant coach Frank Macias of the defending champion Panthers (4-2).

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