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BIIF air riflery: Waiakea shooters honor friend in victory

Tre Soultz and Amber Nagata, cousins and seniors at Waiakea, kept the BIIF air riflery titles in the family Saturday, and they did it to the honor the memory of a member of their extended ohana.

The Warriors had just finished practice Wednesday when they got the news: Kevin Jay Ishikawa, a former teammate affectionately known as KJ, died of an apparent drowning that afternoon while swimming in the Wailuku River.

“We spent an hour, an hour and a half, just letting the kids cry and deal with it,” coach Mel Kawahara said. “I was really worried about what was going to show up today.