Tanoaalofa Scanlan finished with 18 kills on 24 attempts with only two errors as Punahou beat Konawaena 25-22, 25-17, 25-17 in the quarterfinals of the New City Nissan/HHSAA Boys Division I State Championships at Moanalua.

Cameron Porter added 11 kills and Tyson Brady had 23 assists for Punahou.

Konawaena’s Ellison Morgan finished with 19 kills.

No. 4 Maui 3, Campbell 2

Zachary Pragnell had 16 kills, Samuel Cummings added 15 and Luke Pragnell had 14 as Maui outlasted Campbell 16-25, 25-21, 25-23, 22-25, 15-8 in a battle of Sabers at Moanalua.

Andrew Guzman had 45 assists and Kamaehu Akahi-Lurendez had 20 digs for Maui, which will play Punahou in today’s semifinals at 7 p.m. at Moanalua.

Campbell’s Julius Momoe-Mitchell finished with 21 kills and 15 digs, and Kitiona Uli had 48 assists.

Kamehameha 3, No. 3 Hilo 0

Conor Williams had 17 kills on 24 swings with only two errors and Cain Kahahawai added 12 kills as the Warriors beat the Vikings 25-23, 25-18, 25-18 at Castle.

Nathaniel Koahou dished out 36 assists for Kamehameha, which will face Moanalua in today’s semifinals at 5 p.m. at Moanalua.

Maluhia Tandal had 17 kills and Travis Canon recorded 21 assists for Hilo.

No. 2 Moanalua 3, University 0

Jarryn McCutcheon had 15 kills and Lionel Gannon added 11 as Na Menehune beat the Jr. Bows 25-23, 25-23, 25-17 at Castle.

Draider Wilcox posted 34 assists for Moanalua.

University’s Trey Ambrozich finished with 17 kills and Koa Laboy added 11.

Division II

No. 3 Seabury Hall 3, Maryknoll 1

William Judge finished with 17 kills and Jack Bendon added 13 as Seabury Hall beat Maryknoll 25-17, 22-25, 25-17, 25-23 in a battle of Spartans at Kalani.

Kalai Romanchak had 36 assists and Luke Reardon finished with four aces for Seabury Hall.

Maryknoll’s Kiai Ilae had 15 kills and Haden Agbayani finished with 29 assists.

No. 4 Radford 3, No. 5 Hawaii Prep 0

Keahi Kaneakua finished with 13 kills as the Rams beat Ka Makani 25-20, 25-22, 25-19 at Radford.

Micah Kalima-Keohohina had 14 assists for Radford.

Hawaii Prep’s Kena Craven recorded 14 kills and Nicholas Pigotti had 21 assists.

Kapaa 3, Pearl City 2

Filisi Hunt finished with 12 kills, Curren Pope added 11 and Syren Burley had 10 as the Warriors outlasted the Chargers at Kalani.

Isaiah Noguchi recorded 38 assists for Kapaa.

Pearl City’s Josiah Talamoa had 34 assists, Reven Otsuka added 20, and Marley Ngrimidol posted 50 assists.

NEW ORLEANS –  The Sun Belt Conference’s 2024-25 women’s basketball campaign featured historic moments from the season tipoff through to the postseason.

MARCH MADNESS: Arkansas State (21-11, 15-3) secured the 2025 Sun Belt Conference Women’s Basketball Championship for the first time in program history and earned its first ever NCAA Tournament bid. They earned the No. 15 seed and played the eventual National Champion, UConn. Despite the loss in the opening round it was a historic season for the Red Wolves.

WBIT: James Madison (30-6, 18-0) was the Sun Belt’s Regular Season Champion and earned the top seed in the Women’s Basketball Invitational Tournament (WBIT). The Dukes make it all the way to the quarterfinals before suffering a loss to Belmont, 90-45.

WNIT: Troy (24-14,13-5), Old Dominion (18-16, 9-9) and Coastal Carolina (23-9, 12-6) participated in the Women’s National Invitational Tournament (WNIT). Coastal Carolina lost in the first round to Campbell (55-57) and Old Dominion lost in the second round to Purdue Fort Wayne (87-61). Troy made their way through the field and faced Buffalo in the WNIT Championship. They would fall 88-84 to Buffalo, while Zay Dyer and Briana Peguero earned WNIT All-Tournament honors.

ARKANSAS STATE’S STATEMENT: The No. 2 seed Arkansas State defeated No. 1 seed James Madison, 86-79, in the 2025 Sun Belt Conference Championship final. The Red Wolves defeated Troy (81-66) to advance into the championship where they would take down the Dukes and earn the first Sun Belt Tournament Title in program history. The feat comes after the Red Wolves were chosen to finish 13th in the league in the preseason poll voted on by the leagues head coaches.

THE REGULAR SEASON CHAMPS: James Madison went 18-0 in league play to claim the Sun Belt Regular Season Title. It was the Dukes second Sun Belt Regular Season Title since splitting the crown with Southern Miss and Texas State in 2023. The Dukes also notched a 30 win season, the first in program history.

 

FOUR WITH 20+: James Madison (30), Troy (24), Coastal Carolina (23) and Arkansas State (21) concluded the 2024-25 season with 20or more wins. It marks the third-consecutive year with four of more teams with at least 20 wins. James Madison has reached the milestone in three straight seasons.

 

REBOUND QUEENS: Troy finished the season ranked first in the country in rebounds per game at 49.05 and second in the nation in defensive rebounds per game with 32.9. The Trojans were led by Dyer who ranked 16^th in the nation with 10.4 rebounds per game.

NATIONAL LEADERS: Sun Belt teams programs among the nation’s leaders in numerous statistical categories throughout the season:

 
Additionally, multiple players were among the nation’s best in multiple statistical categories:
 

COACHING MILESTONE:  Chanda Rigby surpassed 250 career wins as the Trojan’s head coach (255) and has the most wins among active head coaches in the Sun Belt. James Madison’s Sean O’Regan surpassed 200 career wins as a head coach, he accumulated 210 by the end of the season. 
 

When the Orem Tigers are in a groove, the offense comes at opponents from all angles.

In the 4A boys volleyball championship match on Thursday, Orem finished off its road to redemption with what coaches like to call a “team effort.”

The No. 1-seeded Tigers lost in a five-set heartbreaker in last year’s 4A final but took the big gold trophy in 2025, sweeping No. 7 and Region 8 foe Timpanogos 25-18, 25-19, 30-28 at the UCCU Center.

Who to stop? There’s the powerful swings of leading hitter Ben Hone, dynamic attacks from middles Aaron Nielsen and Luke Wolsey and kills from outsides Jackson Sanders and Aaron Maya. Even setter Lucky Jennings gets into the act and Treyvon Cly logged more than 100 kills before his conversion to libero.

There are plenty of options for Jennings to choose from and that diversity was on full display in the 4A final.

“I think for us, we have the manpower to do it so it’s just finding ways that we can trust our hitters to go up and have competitive swings,” Orem coach Bill Sefita said. “Instead of tip-toeing around the ball or tipping it, just go up there to swing with your heart.”

Nielsen, who led the Tigers with 13 kills, said, “It feels amazing. I mean, after last year, my main goal in life was just to win state this year. And I think we worked really hard and we put everything out there.”

Nielson posted five kills in the first set, including the winner on a nice feed from Jennings at 25-18. Set 2 was tied 10 times, including at 17 after a Cooper Pope kill for Timpanogos. Hone smashed a kill then teamed up with Neilsen for a block and a 21-18 lead. Orem scored the final four points of the set, which featured kills from Nielsen and Maya, then a block team up from Neilsen and Maya for the game winner at 25-19.

Timpanogos made a big push in Set 3. Pope had three kills early and the T-Wolves led 10-5 after an Orem hitting error. The Tigers took the lead back at 14-13 on an ace by Wolsey and the set went back and forth from there. Timpanogos tied things up at 21-all but Orem scored the next three points, getting a pair of kills from Wolsey, to reach championship point at 24-21. The T-Wolves fired back with four straight points led by a kill from Pope and an Orem error to take a 25-24 lead. The Tigers showed their mettle by fighting off set point four times.

Fittingly, a kill from Nielsen tied things up at 28 and after a hitting error from Timpanogos made it championship point again, Wolsey ended the night with a kill and the title was Orem’s to celebrate.

“We really had to focus on getting the passes and using the middles in the third set,” Hone said. “A lot of it was thinking about winning as a recipe and we have to be able to get all the ingredients into the recipe so we can come out with the W.”

Hone added 11 kills, Wolsey had six kills and six block assists, Maya scored five kills and Sanders four.

Sefita said he told his players not to focus on last year’s tough loss but the motivation was still there to change the outcome this time around.

“It hurt to lose last year,” Hone said. “I went through so many days of just regretting and saying I could have done things differently. That really helped, so that this year I could come back and be able to just give my all more and be able to feel so much better when I actually win it. Because last year wouldn’t have meant as much if I didn’t have to go through the loss.”

Timpanogos (15-10) was disappointed but encouraged by its late season run to the runner-up spot.

“The first set it looked like we had some jitters playing at this level and with this pressure,” T-Wolves coach Jared Stark said. “It was hard to get out of that. At the end of the day, we were playing against an incredible team with one of the most varied offenses that I’ve seen the entire season, 4A through 6A. Their middles are amazing. Their outsides are incredible and their setter is an attacker. They just vary it really well and that’s really hard to get a good grip on from a blocking and defensive standpoint. They really kept us on our heels.”

Pope led Timpanogos with 15 kills in his final high school performance and Jared Hansen added eight.

“This is one of those bittersweet things because we had the taste of beating the team we wanted to beat,” Stark said. “Orem beat us twice in region. But it’s awesome to take second, especially coming into the tournament the seventh seed. A lot of people didn’t expect that. Our kids have nothing to hang their heads about. I couldn’t be more proud of them.”

Orem (25-6) finished the season winning 16 of its final 18 matches, with the two losses coming to 6A teams Riverton and Corner Canyon.”It wasn’t a pretty season,” Sefita admitted. “We had a lot of adversity and that kind of hit us, but we asked the boys to continue to chip away one day at a time. We had a certain goal to win region and we did that. Our next goal was taking state. We were able to do that today dominating in three sets. The last set went longer but if its not one of those thing where it keeps you on the edge your seat, then it’s not a state championship match.”

Setita also coached the Orem girls volleyball team to its second straight state title in October.

“This team really worked hard to bond together,” Nielsen said. “We had three people quit this season and that was hard but we really just worked really hard and did a lot of activities together.”

His celebration plans?

“I think I’m going to get Mo’ Bettas and some gelato,” Nielsen said.

In other tournament action, No. 5 Payson punched above its weight and rebounded from its semifinal loss by defeating No. 3 Desert Hills 2-1 (25-20, 23-25, 25-19) to claim third place.

No. 12 Mountain View kept the Region 8 momentum going by beating No. 10 Pine View 2-0 (25-16, 25-21) to finish in 6th place.

COLUMBUS, Ohio – The second-seeded University of Hawai’i men’s volleyball team will make its ninth all-time appearance in the NCAA Championship semifinal round where they will face third-seeded and two-time defending champion UCLA Saturday, May 10 at the Covelli Center. Match time is 8:00 p.m. ET (2:00 p.m. HT). In Thursday’s quarterfinals, the Rainbow Warriors (27-5) got past Penn State in four sets while the Bruins (21-6) swept Belmont Abbey. Saturday’s meeting is a rematch of the 2023 NCAA finals, won by UCLA in Fairfax, Va.

TOURNAMENT SCHEDULE:
NCAA Tournament Quarterfinals, Thursday, May 8
No. 3 seed UCLA def. No. 6 seed Belmont Abbey, 3-0
No. 2 seed Hawai’i def. No. 7 seed Penn State, 3-1
No. 1 seed Long Beach State def. No. 8 seed Fort Valley State, 3-0
No. 5 seed Pepperdine def. No. 4 seed Loyola Chicago, 3-1
 
NCAA Tournament Semifinals, Saturday, May 10
Long Beach State vs. Pepperdine, 5:00 p.m. ET
Hawai’i vs. UCLA, 8:00 p.m. ET
 
NCAA Tournament Finals, Monday, May 12
Championship, 7:00 p.m. ET 
  

MATCH #33 – NCAA NC Men’s Volleyball Championship
Who				Semifinal – No. 2 seed Hawai’i (27-5) vs. No. 3 seed UCLA (21-6)
Date | Time				Saturday, May 10 | 8:00 p.m. ET (2:00 p.m. HT)
Location				Columbus, Ohio – Covelli Center
Television				None
Live Stream				ESPN+
Radio				ESPN Honolulu (1420AM/92.7FM). Tiff Wells (play-by-play)
Streaming Audio				ESPNHonolulu.com; Sideline Hawaii app
Live Stats				HawaiiAthletics.com
Game Notes				Hawai’i
Digital Program				Click Here
Social Media				@HawaiiMensVB  | #HawaiiMVB #WarriorBall25 | @HawaiiMVB  | Facebook

SERIES HISTORY
Overall: UCLA leads 65-31
            In Honolulu: UCLA leads 35-20
            In Los Angeles: UCLA leads 28-11
            Neutral: UCLA leads 2-0
Postseason: UCLA leads 8-1
Last Meeting: 5/6/23, UCLA 3-1
Streak: UCLA 1

MATCH NOTES

• Hawai’i (27-5) advanced to the NCAA Championship semifinals for the ninth time all-time after a four-set win over Penn State in Thursday’s quarterfinal round.
• UH has a 6-2 all-time record in the semifinals.
• Hawai’i has won its last four semifinal matches dating back to 2019. Its last loss occurred in the 2017 tournament to host Ohio State.
• A UH victory on Saturday would mark its seventh trip to the championship match all-time and fifth in the last six years.
• UH and UCLA have won the last four NCAA titles (UH-2021, ’22; UCLA-’23, ’24).
• The teams met twice previously in the NCAA Championship tournament — both in the finals and both won by the Bruins. UCLA won in five sets on its homecourt in the 1996 finals in Los Angeles and in four sets in the 2023 finals in Fairfax, Va.
• UCLA leads the all-time series 65-31, including an 8-1 advantage in the postseason. UH’s only win occurred in the 1999 MPSF Playoffs in Honolulu. The Bruins have won five straight postseason match-ups since then.
• UH went 3-2 against the MPSF this season with a series sweep of BYU, series split with Stanford, and a loss to USC.
• UCLA defeated Belmont Abbey in straight sets in Thursday’s quarterfinals. The Bruins have won their last six matches in the NCAA Championship tournament.
• UH is making its 10th all-time NCAA Championship appearance with an 12-7 mark and two national championships (2021 & ’22).
• Head coach Charlie Wade has led UH to seven NCAA appearances in 16 seasons—all since 2015—with an 9-4 record.
• Wade has a 12-13 all-time record versus UCLA, including a 11-6 advantage dating back to 2013.
• UH is making its third trip to Columbus, Ohio for the NCAA Championship, having also competed in 2017 (advanced to semifinals) and 2021 (won title). Hawai’i has advanced to the semifinals in each of the three appearances.
• UH is the No. 2 seed in the tournament for the second consecutive time. In 2023, Hawai’i advanced to the title match against No. 1 seed UCLA and lost in four sets.
• UH’s 27 wins this season is tied for third-most in a single-season in program history. It also marks the sixth season of 27 or more wins.

#HawaiiMVB

No tiebreaker necessary.

The Lancaster-Lebanon League boys volleyball Section 1 championship trophy is heading to Cedar Crest.

The Falcons clinched their first section title in program history Thursday night when Cedar Crest blanked Elizabethtown 3-0, and when Warwick — which started the night in a tie for first place with the Falcons — was tripped up 3-1 at longtime rival Hempfield.

The Black Knights played spoiler on the last night of league play, beating the Warriors 25-19, 20-25, 25-17, 25-20 in a match that featured a little bit of everything — including a long medical delay — in Landisville.

Had Cedar Crest (11-1 L-L, 16-2 overall) and Warwick (10-2, 10-2) finished in a tie for first place, the Falcons and the Warriors would have shared the section crown, and the L-L League playoff seeds would have come down to District 3 Class 3A power rating.

Warwick had that nod coming into Thursday. But Cedar Crest ended up clinching it outright, snapping the Warriors’ three-year reign over Section 1.

Hempfield (9-3, 10-4) didn’t make the league playoffs, but the Knights, who shared the section title with Warwick last spring, delivered in crunch-time spoiler-mode, and picked up some momentum heading into the district playoffs on May 20.

The match turned in the third set, when Hempfield went 7-0 after a 16-16 tie to seize control. Marcel Boyreau (41 assists) and Spencer Troyer had key blocks and George Agadis had two kills and a block down the stretch, and Mason Koehler capped it with a monster spike.

Agadis (20 kills, 5 blocks) and Koehler waffled must-have kills late in the fourth set, helping Hempfield clinch it. Brady Rigard had 11 digs and Mitchell Orth had a pair of aces for the Knights.

Thomas Mejia boomed 22 kills, Brenin Buckwalter had 29 digs and Carter Walls set up 44 assists for Warwick.

The match was halted for nearly 30 minutes between the third and fourth sets after a fan needed medical attention, and was eventually taken from the gym by an ambulance crew, but sitting up and fully alert.

The L-L semifinals are set for Monday at Manheim Central.

In the opener at 5 p.m., Cedar Crest will square off against Section 2 runner-up Cocalico. In the nightcap at 7 p.m., the host Section 2 champion Barons will take on Warwick in a rematch of the last two league championship matches — both won by Central, which will be angling for a three-peat.

The title match is next Thursday at 7 p.m. at Ephrata Middle School.

Warwick has been to five L-L championship matches in a row.

In Cedar Crest’s triumph over Elizabethtown, Ryder Rohrer teed up 29 assists and Aidan Vukovich had 10 kills for the Falcons.

Central (14-0, 16-0) closed it out Thursday with a 3-0 win over Lebanon, the Barons’ 38th section victory in a row. Dylan Musser had 19 assists, seven kills and four aces for Central.

Cocalico (12-2, 16-2) blanked Conestoga Valley 3-0 on Thursday to lock up second place — and deal the Buckskins a gut-punch setback in the District 3 Class 3A power ratings. Jacob Wambolt had 30 assists and Colson Hildebrand had 10 kills for the Eagles.

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