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Tough going for rebuilding Cobras
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YOKOSUKA NAVAL BASE, Japan — It’s been a hard fall for E.J. King’s boys and girls basketball teams.
A year after the boys lost in the Far East Class A championship game and the girls finished fourth, all key components from those teams have either graduated or transferred. After Friday’s lopsided losses at Nile C. Kinnick, the Cobras teams fell to a collective 0-6 this season.
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New coach, little change for Kadena
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KADENA AIR BASE, Okinawa — Kadena girls basketball’s post-Hudson era began pretty much the way it ended under their previous coach.
With new weapon Brittney Wise scoring 21 points and veteran Aja’ Walker adding 18, the two-time defending Far East Class AA Tournament champion Panthers opened their 2008-09 season by downing Chatan, a Japanese team, 49-32 Saturday at the Panther Pit.
"It went very well," said Dewayne Pigge’,... More
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Wood has shot at rare feat
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CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa — You want pressure? Try taking Advanced Placement courses in statistics, government and English literature, being a National Honor Society member and carrying a 3.9 non-weighted GPA.
Not enough? How about being an accomplished cross-country runner, an age-group swim champion, an ice hockey center since childhood … and a three-time Far East tournament gold medalist for DODDS-Pacific’s most storied high school wrestling program.
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Mason defeats Allen, wins girls singles crown
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Attack her backhand. Pin her to the baseline.
Such was Elissa Mason’s game plan, which worked to perfection Thursday as the Kadena junior dethroned reigning Far East High School Tennis Tournament girls singles champion Kennedy Allen of Seoul American.
"I wasn’t expecting to play that good," said Mason, who used six service breaks and a patient baseline game to beat Allen 6-4, 6-2 at Kadena Air Base’s Risner... More
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It starts up front for Osan, Edgren
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Want a reason why Johnell Alexander has run for 1,095 yards and 12 touchdowns for Robert D. Edgren this season? Or why Osan American’s big four, Mike Gilliam, Jesse Crockett, Adonte’ Murry and Will Rapoza, have 720 yards on 120 carries the last four games?
Look no further than the five men in front of them: the tackles, guards and center.
"They’re the backbone of the team," Osan... More
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Zama's Quallio breaks 22-year-old record
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TAMA HILLS RECREATION CENTER, Japan — Even after running the Pacific’s fastest time this season a week earlier, Andrew Quallio told his Zama American coach, Mitch Moellendick, that he wasn’t satisfied.
He vowed to do better — and he succeeded, resoundingly. In Saturday’s Kanto Plain Association of Secondary Schools finals, the Zama American senior shattered a 22-year-old Tama Hills cross-country course record by 23 seconds.
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Douglass, Harvin pace Kadena, Yokota to titles
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Darren "D.J." Douglass continues to emerge as an offensive weapon on a Kadena football team already loaded with them.
The senior receiver caught only one pass Friday, but it was a huge one, a 32-yard touchdown that sealed the Panthers’ third straight Okinawa Activities Council championship. Kadena shut out Kubasaki for the third straight time, 14-0 at Kadena Air Base’s McDonald Stadium.
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Misawa goes to air, hauls in USFJ-AFL title
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MISAWA AIR BASE, Japan — Long thought of as a bastion of smashmouth, ground-pounding football, the Misawa Jets stepped out of character Saturday, going to the air to win the U.S. Forces Japan-American Football League title.
Darone Frierson passed 6 yards to Darvin Johnson to break a 0-0 third-quarter tie, then Frierson set up Ralph Elliott’s 1-yard dive with four more completions as the Jets dethroned two-time defending champion... More
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Eagles aiming for third straight title
Pacific
MISAWA AIR BASE, Japan — On the surface, the Robert D. Edgren Eagles appear headed for a rebuilding season, with their "Fantastic Four" skills-position stars Andrew Blankenship, Jacque Moton, Josh McDonald and the always dangerous Zach Latimore graduated or transferred.
But peek between the covers of the two-time defending Class A champion Eagles’ book. One will find the support troops, the players behind the scenes and in the trenches... More
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Guam band makes history in China
Pacific
Guam Territorial Band’s Pride of the Pacific Marching Alliance joined 1,900 other musicians from around the world in being the first foreign-music ensemble to play in China’s historic Tiananmen Square as a run-up to the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games.
Under the banner of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Orchestra, the marching band consists of musicians from schools and universities in China, the United States, Japan, Australia, New Zealand and Guam.... More
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Kadena's Ahner rewards coach's faith
Pacific
Freshman Aaron Ahner didn’t even make the cut for the Kadena Panthers’ varsity boys soccer team at the start of the season.
But after Ahner spent four weeks proving himself on the B squad, coach Tom McKinney promoted him to the varsity — and the move reaped huge dividends on Friday when Ahner scored the goal that won the Okinawa Activities Council season series for Kadena.
Ahner broke... More
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Okinawa-Americans Wrestle
Pacific
Much more than a gold medals was on the line in the 2nd Okinawa-American Friendship Wrestling Tournament on Saturday.
The event provided valuable preparation for Okinawa Activities Council rivals Kadena and Kubasaki for the Far East tournament next month. Meet founders said the tournament strengthens bonds between Japanese and American teams who depend on each other for competition.
This furthers our competitive reach, Kubasaki athletic director... More
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Daegu Girls Keep Winning
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Michelle Chandler knew from the start of the Korea girls basketball season she would struggle with last years point guard Sarah Eades having transferred to Seoul American.
So, the Daegu American coach turned to a forward, Jamie Cheniault, for a solution and the sophomore has responded with flying colors.
Cheniault has averaged 14.5 points in the past two games, both victories for the Warriors. The... More
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Korea Teams Take MLK
Pacific
CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa Whether playing hoops or saving lives, Jacqueline Kershaw proved herself quite adept this weekend on the Foster Field House courts.
The shooting guard scored 15 points and recorded five steals Monday, helping her Camp Red Cloud squad lead by as many as 26 points en route to thumping the Okinawa Mystics 68-51 for the womens title in the 14th Martin Luther King Invitational... More
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Panthers rally
Pacific
CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa The Kubasaki Dragons dominated during the 2006-07 regular season, but the pendulum is swinging back in favor of the Kadena Panthers wrestling team.
Seth Ennis, Dylan Bruton, Cody Cash, Josh Carpenter, Tyler Broome and two-time defending Far East champion Jacob Bloom scored pins as Kadena rallied from a 14-8 deficit to pound Kubasaki 40-19 in Thursdays Okinawa Activities Council opener in the Dragons... More
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