Moanalua's Michael Feliciano heads downfield on a carry against Campbell. Feliciano scored three total touchdowns in a win over the Sabers. Peter Caldwell | SL

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Sat, Sep 26, 2015 @ Moanalua [ 7:00 pm ]

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Campbell

20

Moanalua

28

Final	1	2	3	4	T
Campbell (2-8-0)	0	20	0	0	20
Moanalua (4-6-0)	7	0	7	14	28

• Pass
• Rush
• Rec

Alakai Yuen 242 yd 2 TD

Kawika Ulufale 153 yd 3 TD

Michael Feliciano 38 yd 2 TD

Siaosi Soto 54 yd

Michael Feliciano 127 yd 1 TD

Noah Esprecion 97 yd

SALT LAKE - Kekaulike Kalua and Tyler Soucie stopped Campbell quarterback Siaosi Soto at the three-yard line as time ran out and Moanalua rallied from a 20-7 half-time deifict to turn back the Sabers, 28-20, Saturday night to clinch a berth into the Oahu Interscholastic Association Division I tournament.

Moanalua imrproved to 3-4 overall and 2-4 in the OIA Red in securing the division's fifth seed. The top six teams from the Red and Blue advance to the OIA Division I tournament, which starts the week of Oct. 9 to 10. Moanalua closes the regular season against the division's top seed, Mililani, next weekend.

"We're in the playoffs for sure and that's the main thing," Moanalua coach Jason Cauley said. "I'm proud of the boys fighting back. We had three rough games in a row and we needed this for a confidence builder. This is great going into the Mililani game. We're going to try to fine tune things this week. We have to get rid of the turnovers and play lights out on defense the way we did in the second half."

Meanwhile, Campbell fell to 1-6 and 1-5. The Sabers close the regular season against Farrington Saturday at Aloha Stadium. A win will secure the Sabers the Red's sixth seed. Aiea, which plays Kapolei, needs to win and hopes that Campbell loses to get the sixth seed. Campbell's only win is against Aiea. Aiea's only win was the crossover against Kaiser.

"We have to win this week," Campbell coach Amosa Amosa said.

If the Sabers miss the tournament, it would be the first time that happened since 2010.

Leading 28-20, Moanalua's Alakai Yuen punted 40 yards to the Campbell 5 with 1:35 left in the game. The Sabers moved down field and was aided by a personal foul that put them at the Moanalua 14 with nine seconds left. An incomplete pass by Kawika Ulufale left four seconds on the clock. Soto came in at quarterback and dropped back to pass. Flushed out of the pocket, he dodged some defenders, but was tackled by Kalua and Soucie at the 3 as time expired.

"That ball has to be thrown in the end zone," Amosa said of the play.

Running back Michael Feliciano scored three touchdowns to lead Na Menehune, who played stellar defense in the second half.

The Sabers took a 20-7 lead at the half on three five-yard touchdown passes from Ulufale, two to Markus Ramos and the other to Fangaima Mailei. But Moanalua, which sat out starters for periods of time for disciplinary reasons, shut down Campbell in the second half. 

"All of our originals starters were fresh in the second half because they didn't play in the first half for missing practice last Saturday," Cauley said. "There were a lot of new faces in there. People had to miss a series, a quarter or a half for missing practice. When they came back in the second half, they were hungry; they didn't like seeing people playing their positions and they came out to fight. They sparked our offense. The defense won this game."

Moanalua got on the board first following a Campbell fumble at midfield. The 10-play drive ended on Feliciano's one-yard TD run with 1:03 left in the first quarter. Yuen made the PAT to put Moanalua up 7-0.

Moanalua's ensuing pooch kick went out of bounds at the Campbell 44. The Sabers capitalized on the short field, eventually scoring on Ulufale's five-yard TD pass to Mailei. Braden Kauhane booted the PAT to tie the game at 7 with 11:06 in the second quarter.

Moanalua lost the ball on a fumble on its first play from scrimmage at its own 16. Campbell used the short field again to score, this time on a five-yard pass from Ulufale to Ramos to make it 14-7 with 8:38 in the half.

Campbell failed to capitalize on an interception by Austin Fuga. The Sabers ensuing drive ended with a missed 22-yard field goal try by Kauhane.

But the Sabers got great field position again after Tyson Tafai partially blocked a Moanalua punt that put the ball at the Na Menehune 31. Four plays later, Ulufale connected with Ramos on another five-yard TD pass. A bobbled snap on the PAT kept the score 20-7 with 2:07 in the half.

The Sabers received the second-half kickoff, but their drive stalled at the Moanalua 33. Campbell punted into the end zone for a touchback.

Moanalua needed only four plays to score with the chunk of yardage coming on Yuen's 64-yard TD pass to Feliciano, who simply out-ran the Campbell defense to the end zone. Blake Tom made the PAT to pull Moanalua to 20-14 with 5:17 in the third quarter.

Campbell fumbled the ensuing kickoff and Moanalua took over from the Sabers' 14. But Campbell's defense stiffened and the Sabers took over on downs from their 6.

Moanalua's defense only allowed four yards on first down and nothing after and Tafai's 39-yard punt gave Moanalua possession at the Sabers' 49. 

On third-and-11 at the Sabers' 38, Yuen was flagged for intentional grounding, which is supposed to result in a loss of down, but the down was repeated from the Campbell 47. Yuen was sacked, but a holding penalty kept the down alive. On fourth-and-9 from the Campbell 42, Yuen completed an 18-yard pass to Ryan Romones for the first down. Two plays later - and into the fourth quarter - Feliciano's one-yard TD run tied the game at 20. Tom's PAT gave Na Menehune a 21-20 lead with 11:40 left in the game.

"We asked them (the officials) that it's supposed to be a loss of down," Amosa said of the intentional grounding penalty. 

Campbell went three-and-out on its next two series. Moanalua scored its final TD on Yuen's 20-yard pass to Brandon Bender with 3:55 to make it 28-20.

Campbell next series ended with an interception by Andrew Nava at midfield with 2:40 in the game. But Moanalua punted Campbell's 5 with 1:35 left. But Campbell's dirve died at the 3 thanks to Kailua and Soucie's tackle of Soto.