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Sat, Feb 3, 2018 @ Kapolei

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McKinley

3

Kalaheo

2

Final/PK	1st	2nd	OT	2OT	PK	Tot
McKinley (5-10-1)	0	2	0	0	6	3
Kalaheo (7-7-1)	2	0	0	0	5	2

K. Minawa (55', 73')   Z. Stohler (21')   M. Oropeza (26')

KAPOLEI — A championship drought of more than 40 years is over.

Kotaro Minawa scored a pair of second-half goals and Cristian Orlando Guzman Diaz made two crucial saves on penalty kicks to help McKinley rally past Kalaheo in the title game of the Oahu Interscholastic Association Division II boys soccer tournament Saturday night.

The final score was 2-2, with McKinley winning after eight rounds of penalty kicks, 6-5.

A crowd of about 300 at Kapolei's Alvin Nagasako Athletic Complex saw the Tigers improve to 4-8-1 on the season and lay claim to their sixth league crown. It is their first OIA championship since winning five straight from 1973-'77.

The Mustangs, who were seeking their seventh OIA title, fell to 5-6-1.

Kalaheo, the Eastern Division's top seed in the six-team tournament, got a pair of goals from Zanskar Stohler and Mark Oropeza in the first half. Stohler opened the scoring in the 21st minute and five minutes later, Oropeza found the back of the net.

The score held until the 55th minute, when Minawa got McKinley on the board.

"At halftime we had a good talk," Tigers coach John Mai said. "We knew what we were doing and in the second half we came out, we were first to the ball, we challenged everything, we got Kotaro the ball — which is what we wanted to do — and he put a good first goal. I knew that would get our energy up and then we kept pressing, pressing."

Nearly 20 minutes later, Minawa scored the equalizing goal on a header off Nghia Nguyen's corner kick.

Minawa's goals were his team-leading ninth and 10th of the season.

"We got that corner kick and then we got a good corner from Nghia and Kotaro put his head to it and finished it, but we also got great saves from our goalie (Guzman Diaz) in the second half. He made some unbelievable saves in the second half," Mai said.

Following 80 minutes of regulation, the teams played two scoreless 10-minute overtime periods before going to a penalty shoot out.

Kalaheo goalkeeper Braden Uehara stopped two of McKinley's first four attempts and the shoot out was deadlocked at 3-apiece after five rounds. Both teams made their next two shots, but Guzman Diaz registered his second save in round eight and Brian Anderson slotted his try into the left side of the goal to win it.

It was the second time the teams faced off this season. Despite losing to Kalaheo, 5-2, in their regular-season meeting back on Jan. 6, Mai said his team was optimistic entering the rematch.

"That first game we had three goals scored on us in the first ten minutes — we just slept through that — and then we caught up with two goals, so we thought that if we don't sleep and we start off strong, then we'll have a shot at it," Mai said. "Unfortunately, in the first half we did start off weak and we were down, 2-0. We weren't coming to the ball, we just weren't doing what we've been practicing and what's been helping us win the last two games."

The East second-seeded Tigers completed an improbable run to its first OIA title in 41 years. After eight consecutive losses to start the season, they won four of their last five games.

The Mustangs have now lost three of their last four contests. They were seeking their seventh league crown and first since 2013.

Both teams, along with third-place finisher Waipahu, will represent the OIA in next week's The Queen's Medical Center/HHSAA Division II State Championships at Waipio Peninsula Soccer Complex.