Kapolei's Ty-Noah Williams recorded 302 receiving yards on seven receptions and four touchdowns in a win over Kapolei. Jim Lebeau | Special to SL

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Fri, Oct 9, 2015 @ Kapolei [ 7:00 pm ]

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Castle

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Kapolei

41

Final	1	2	3	4	T
Castle (3-6-0)	0	0	0	0	0
Kapolei (6-4-0)	20	0	21	0	41

• Pass
• Rush
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Taulia Tagovailoa 517 yd 6 TD

Willie Ewaliko 163 yd

Kainoa Bardon 19 yd

Quinn Aquino 43 yd

Ty-Noah Williams 302 yd 4 TD

Royce Simeona-Townsend 47 yd

KAPOLEI — Every game day, about two hours before kickoff, the Kapolei football team has what it calls a "spiritual feeding." That didn't quite satisfy Ty-Noah Williams' hunger Friday night.

The senior wide receiver feasted against Castle's defense, leading the Hurricanes to a 41-0 drubbing of the visiting Knights.

It was the fifth consecutive win for eighth-ranked Kapolei, which improved to 6-3 on the season and will visit fourth-ranked Kahuku in next weekend's quarterfinal round of the Oahu Interscholastic Association Division I tournament.

Williams caught seven passes for 302 yards and four of quarterback Taulia Tagovailoa's six touchdowns. Tagovailoa threw for 517 yards on 19-of-32 passing and was not intercepted.

"Credit our offensive line, they did a great job tonight," Hurricanes coach Darren Hernandez said. "I think towards the end, when we were substituting a lot of guys they did get to Taulia a few times, but other than that they were really on it and I think it all starts with the o-line. They gave us protection."

The Hurricanes amassed 539 yards of total offense, with all but 22 of them coming through the air. Jaymin Sarono (four receptions for 86 yards) and Boogie Tago-Sue (two catches for 50 yards) also were on the receiving end of Tagovailoa touchdown passes.

"The o-line did very well because they gave Taulia time to throw me and the other receivers the ball," Williams said. "I just want to give a big shoutout to our linemen for giving Taulia time to drop those dimes and Taulia for dropping those dimes."

The offensive line was without right tackle Sean Auwae, a UCLA-commit, and running back L.J. Esperas also did not play. Both were nursing knee injuries, while the defensive line was without a pair of starters in Johnny Morrison and Opetaia Sale.

"That's even more incredible that our offensive jelled and it was like the next man up and they came together and they played well without Sean and our defensive line also, without Johnny Morrison," Hernandez said. "(Morrison) leads the team in sacks and tackles for loss, so he's a really big part of it. We showed that other guys could step up and make plays when they had to."

Kapolei scored all of its points in the first and third quarters. Williams' first score came on a 56-yard pass down the right seam. He got behind the Castle defense, hauled in the Tagovailoa pass and went untouched to the end zone.

After Castle turned it over on downs, Tagovailoa hit Tago-Sue, who was wide open along the left sideline, for a 39-yard score.

With just 39 seconds left in the opening quarter, Tagovailoa found Williams, who again beat his defender, for a 75-yard TD pass. Beau Meyer's PAT gave the ‘Canes a 20-0 lead.

"We've just got to work hard, because they were playing man and this was probably one of the faster (defensive backs) I've played against and they were keeping up step-for-step with me," Williams said. "I just had a couple lucky breaks and I just found the soft zone in the area right behind the linebackers and the safeties."

The Knights largely kept all 11 defenders within a yard or two of the line of scrimmage for most of the game, leaving the wideouts in single coverage.

"We saw that they were playing, especially in the first half, with no real deep safety and they were blitzing us," Hernandez said.

Williams and company made them pay yet again just a few minutes into the second half, when he scored on a 48-yard touchdown pass. The defender tried to jump the route and ended up leaving Williams with an uncontested trip to the end zone.

"We were trying to put a little bit of pressure on the quarterback," Castle coach Nelson Maeda said. "We had problems just with playing base alignment, base defense and that hurt us. The quarterback found the weaknesses in what we were doing — uncovered receivers — they did a good job. They did a very nice job."

The Hurricanes defense got into the action on Castle's next drive. Quarterback Willie Ewaliko was intercepted in the end zone by safety Leonard Lee, who took it back to midfield, setting up a 9-yard scoring strike from Tagovailoa to Sarono three plays later.

Williams closed out the scoring with a 51-yard TD grab on the final play of the third quarter. He hauled in the over-the-shoulder pass from Tagovailoa near the left sideline before working his way back across the field and outracing the secondary to the right pylon.

"He did a great job tonight," Hernandez said of Williams, who entered the game with 40 receptions for 624 yards and five TDs. "We leaned on him heavily and we're going to have to lean on him the rest of the season. We expect our other guys to step up. We've got a pretty good arsenal of receivers and we just need all of them stepping up."

Williams said the Hurricanes learned a valuable lesson in last week's come-from-behind 16-6 win over Aiea.

"This week we just tried to stay with the basics because last week we were hot-headed beating Farrington and coming into Aiea — a one-win team — in our house, so we were pretty over ourselves," said Williams, who now ranks second in all of D1 with 926 receiving yards. "Getting manhandled for three quarters straight, everybody kind of humbled themselves to play the basics and just get back in rhythm to what we started out."

Myron Tagovailoa-Amosa had two of Kapolei's four sacks on the night.

Castlewas just 3 of 17 on third downs and finished with 269 yards of total offense. Ewaliko completed 21 of 40 pass attempts for 163 yards and wide receiver Jeremy McGoldrick, who entered the game with 41 catches for 684 yards and 15 TDs, was held to three receptions for 26 yards.

The Knights, who had not played a game since Sept. 18, fell to 3-6 to end their season.

"I thought Kapolei made all the plays that they needed to make to win the game; just complete domination at every position. They're going to be a good matchup, I think, for Kahuku," Maeda said. "For us, it's disappointing that we couldn't play the type of Castle football that we would have liked to play and that's kind of characterized our season as such. We just didn't quite get to where we needed to be. I thought with the 29 guys that we had, that we had the potential to go further, but we were our own worst enemies throughout the season."

Kapolei leads the all-time series against Castle, 2-1. The game was a rematch of last year's first-round game won by the Hurricanes, 34-0.