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Kamehameha senior Kaeo Batacan may measure at 5 feet 6 or an inch more, but his quickness and vision stand much taller than his height on a football field.
Batacan, a running back, received an academic and financial aid package and signed to play ball at Pacific University, where there’s a big welcome mat for Hawaii kids.
Next to the University of Hawaii at Manoa, the most well-known school to locals is Pacific, the Division III college in Forest Grove, Ore., where 20 percent of the study body is from Hawaii — the highest percentage at any mainland university.