Yates key factor in win over Surfriders

Kealakehe QB Tyler Yates threw three touchdown passes and ran for two more in a 36-34 win over Kailua. ScoringLive file photo

Kealakehe's season-opening 36-34 non-league win over Kailua Saturday was a coming-out party of sorts for quarterback Tyler Yates.

The Waveriders' senior factored into all five of his team's touchdowns against the Surfriders, in the game that took place at the Kailua-Kona campus on the Big Island. Yates, a 5-foot-9, 150-pound senior, got the scoring started on a 65-yard touchdown run less than a minute into the game. His 8-yard TD pass to John Kamoku near the end of the first quarter gave Kealakehe a 14-7 lead.

With the game tied at 14-all midway through the second quarter, Yates found Jordan Cristobal on an 8-yard scoring strike. He scored his second rushing touchdown on a 19-yard run with one minutes and 15 seconds until halftime, to make it 28-21 Waveriders at the intermission.

Yates, who finished with 92 rushing yards, put Kealakehe up by two scores following a 54-yard TD pass to Giuseppi Zapatoliva with 7:38 left in the third quarter. He passed for 162 yards on 13-of-25 passing with two interceptions. Yates, a 2010 All-Big Island Interscholastic Federation first team selection, also made all four of his extra-point attempts in the win.

Kailua scored twice in the final 6:38 in the game and pulled within two after Kahaku Iaea and Lee Kealoha hooked up on a 7-yard touchdown pass on fourth-and-two inside of the final minute. However, the Surfriders' ensuing two-point conversion attempt failed when Kealakehe's Tama Paogofie-Buyten sent Iaea out of bounds at the Waveriders' 2-yard line to seal the victory.

Kealakehe hosts Kamehameha-Hawaii Saturday in a non-league game.

WEEK ONE TOP PERFORMERS

Kauai QB Trey Aguano passed for 323 yards and 1 TD against Kamehameha-Hawaii.

Waiakea RB Nu'u Alava rushed for 188 yards and 1 TD against Waimea.

Kaimuki WR Kanoe Barcenas had four receptions for 107 yards and 1 TD against Hawaii Prep.

Kailua QB Kahaku Iaea passed for 305 yards and three TDs against Kealakehe.

Kahuku LB Daylen Kalulu-Sugai had 3 sacks against Waianae.

Kalani WR Gavin Kim had seven catches for 107 yards and one TD against Kapa'a.

Kody Mento, Iolani RB rushed for 118 yards and one TD against Radford.

Kailua WR Ryson Lee-Kealoha had nine receptions for 89 yards and two TDs against Kealakehe.

Saint Louis QB Kawai Mook-Garcia passed for 244 yards and one TD against Aiea.

Mililani QB Jarin Morikawa passed for 242 yards and two TDs against Moanalua.

Saint Louis RB Kamana Pimental rushed for 105 yards and 1 TD against Aiea.

Leilehua WR Allan Racette, had nine recpetions for 165 yards and one TD against Service (Alaska)

Kalani WR Lorenzo Reeves had nine catches for 133 yards and TDs against Kapa'a.

Leilehua QB Kenan Sadanaga passed for 351 yards and four TDs against Service (Alaska)

Kamehameha-Hawaii QB Warner Shaw passed for 233 yards and four TDs against Kauai.

Farrington RB Tyler Taumua rushed for 132 yards and one TD against Kamehameha.

Kamehameha DB Taylor Taliulu had two interceptions, returning one 75 yards for a TD, against Farrington.

Mililani WR Kaimi Wilson had nine receptions for 185 yards and two TDs against Moanalua.