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Fri, Sep 8, 2017 @ Iolani [ 3:15 pm ]

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Saint Francis

43

Iolani

26

Final	1	2	3	4	T
Saint Francis (8-4-0)	6	15	8	14	43
Iolani (4-6-0)	3	0	15	8	26

• Pass
• Rush
• Rec

Tai-John Mizutani 255 yd 2 TD

Kaimanuwai Akana 172 yd 2 TD

Tai-John Mizutani 11 yd 1 TD

Jonan Aina-Chaves 215 yd 3 TD

Justin Genovia 113 yd 2 TD

Scott McLeod 61 yd 2 TD

Jonan Aina-Chaves rushed for a season-high 215 yards and three touchdowns to lead Saint Francis to a 43-26 road win over Iolani before a Friday afternoon crowd of about 800 at Eddie Hamada Track and Field at Kozuki Stadium.

The Saints, who are ranked third in the ScoringLive/Hawaiian Electric Division II Power Rankings, posted 400 yards of total offense and benefitted from four defensive takeaways to reel off their fourth straight win. They improved to 4-1 overall and sit in first place in the Interscholastic League of Honolulu's D2 standings at 2-0.

The seventh-ranked Raiders dropped their second straight game to fall to 1-3 overall and 0-2 in league play.

Aina-Chaves, who goes by the nickname "Bubba," carried 27 times and scored on runs of 27, 65 and 2 yards. He had 17 rushes for 149 yards after halftime.

"We felt we could run the ball," Saint Francis coach Kip Akana said. "(The Raiders) are really gritty, tough, (but) they're a little undersized and we felt we could take advantage of our bigger offensive line against their kinda undersized front seven."

The Saints erased an early 3-0 deficit — after a 27-yard field goal by Mika Makekau to cap Iolani's opening possession — with 21 unanswered points to go into halftime with a 21-3 lead.

Aina-Chaves punched in a 27-yard run midway through the third quarter that gave Saint Francis its largest lead of the game at 29-10, but the Raiders answered with a pair of scores — a 24-yard TD pass from Tai-John Mizutani to Justin Genovia late in the third quarter and a 16-yard Mizutani TD run midway through the fourth — to pull within 29-26.

However, just two plays after the Mizutani TD run, the Saints answered with a 65-yard breakaway run to pay dirt by Aina-Chaves.

"Once I saw that big hole my linemen created — I felt good running the ball — so I just turned on the jets and went," said Aina-Chaves, a 5-foot-8, 160-pound sophomore running back.

That score gave Saint Francis a 35-26 lead with 5:21 left to play.

Two plays after that, Alek Miyasato picked off Mizutani, which set up a 2-yard TD run by Aina-Chaves six plays later. It was Miyasato's second interception of the game and third overall for the Saints.

"We watched a lot of film on them and we knew they were going for the short passes, so we had to just practice getting our deep, baiting the shallow stuff and then break on the balls. We've been practicing that all week," said Miyasato, a 5-foot-10, 160-pound senior defensive back.

Bubba Akana hit Samson Kaleikau on the ensuing two-point conversion pass to close out the scoring.

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Akana finished with 172 yards through the air on 19-of-25 passing with one interception. His 1-yard TD run late in the first quarter got the Saints on the board.

Akana — the son of the coach — threw a pair of second-quarter scoring strikes of 33 and 4 yards to Scott McLeod, who finished with five reception for 61 yards. Both TD passes were recycled from turnovers: Kaleikau picked off Mizutani in the end zone, which led to the first score, and Kaleo Neves forced and recovered an Iolani fumble to set-up the second.

"Like I always say, the past three years we've relied on the defense," Kip Akana said. "The defense is the heart and soul of our team. We lay it on them to set the tone for the game and they came up big today."

Coach Akana said the second-half rally by the Raiders provided a gut check.

"We had some miscues, a couple turnovers and penalties and penalties and turnovers against a team like Iolani is a bad recipe, but we did meet the adversity," Akana said. "The team came out, gut check, took the ball, marched it down and punched it in."

Mizutani finished 29-of-45 passing for 255 yards with two touchdowns — both to Genovia, who finished with 13 grabs for 113 yards — and three interceptions.

The Raiders passed for 311 of their 323 yards of total offense, but were held to just 12 rushing yards.

The teams will rematch on Sept. 29 at Aloha Stadium.