If there were do-overs at the HHSAA boys basketball tournament, Honokaa coach Jayme Carvalho surely would have taken one early-on Friday.
University overwhelmed Honokaa at the outset of their semifinal and raced to a 54-39 victory at Kaimuki High in Honolulu to advance to the Division II championship game.
”We gave effort until the end, but we started really slow,” Carvalho said. “We were running in quicksand.”
The problems were two-fold for the BIIF runner-up Dragons (9-6), who routinely placed three of four scorers in double figures during league play. Against the Junior Rainbows (13-3), the ILH runner-up, Honokaa didn’t have any players reach double digits.