Radford QB Cody Lui-Yuen prepares to make a pass attempt. Sean Nakamura | SL

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Radford wide receiver Jameson Pasigan carries the ball after a reception against Kauai. Sean Nakamura | SL

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Reggie McFadden attempts to free himself from the clutches of Radford LB Logan Soakai. Sean Nakamura | SL

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Radford DB Cayman Conley intercepts a pass intended for Kauai's Pono Bukoski. Sean Nakamura | SL

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Sat, Nov 10, 2012 @ Vidinha Stadium [ 2:45 pm ]

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Radford

22

Kauai

21

Final	1	2	3	4	T
Radford (11-2-0)	14	0	0	8	22
Kauai (8-2-0)	7	0	7	7	21

• Pass
• Rush
• Rec

Trey Aguano 163 yd 1 TD

Cody Lui-Yuen 180 yd 1 TD

Reggie McFadden 83 yd 1 TD

Chris Jackson 35 yd

Chanse Ramirez 51 yd 1 TD

Jameson Pasigan 92 yd 1 TD

LIHUE, Kauai-Cody Lui-Yuen scored on a one-yard run with one minute, 40 seconds left, then threw to Mana Kakiva for the game-winning 2-point conversion and Radford rallied to a pulsating 22-21 win against Kauai Saturday in an opening-round game of the First Hawaiian Bank Division II football tournament.

The Rams (11-1) will meet five-time defending champion Iolani in a semifinal Friday at Hawaiian Airlines Field at Aloha Stadium.

"I think it's important to credit these guys," Radford coach Fred Salanoa said of the play. "Everyone was saying (to the coaches), 'Good call, good call.' But you know what? We're not the ones executing it. These boys believe, they sweat, they train hard, they cry, they want to quit. We don't let them and they don't let themselves (quit). They want to be here, they want to be champions. They are champions. When we put them in these limelights, they execute."

Added Kauai coach Corey Aguano: "That was a gutsy call. They had a play for it and they executed very well."

A Vidinha Stadium crowd was treated to a thriller that went down to the wire, as the Red Raiders (8-2) came from a 14-7 halftime deficit with two second-half scores to pull ahead of the Rams.

Following Radford's go-ahead score, the Red Raiders took over from their 20 after Cayman Conley's fourth touchback on the ensuing kickoff. Needing just to get into field goal range, Kauai still had a shot for a comeback of its own with 1:40 left.

Behind quarterback Trey Aguano, Kauai picked up 54 yards on his 4-of-5 passing for 40 yards and his two keepers totaling 14 yards. But on third-and-3 from the Rams' 26, Conley intercepted Aguano's pass at the 15 and returned it 85 yards for an apparent touchdown that was nullified by an illegal block on the return. But Conley's second pick of the game -the third overall by the Rams - secured the Rams' lead with 26 seconds left. Lui-Yuen took a knee to run the rest of the time off the clock.

"The miscue at the end there, we were in field-goal range," Aguano said.

Following the Red Raiders early fourth-quarter score that put them ahead, 21-14, the team exchanged punts after their series.

Kauai's punt put the Rams at their 22 with 5:44 left in the game. The Rams struggled along the way, converting a third-and-5 with an 11-yard pass from Lui-Yuen to Jameson Pasigan. Then the Rams faced a fourth-and-9 from their 39 and lined in punt formation. Instead, Conley, the punter, fired a 12-yard strike to Randy Ramos for a first down to keep the drive alive.

"He was covered," Conley said "But you've got do what you've got to do. It was a lot of pressure, but you have to do it."

"We practice these plays everyday," Salanoa said. "We just wait for the right time to do it. That was the right time to do it."

The Red Raiders had been dominating the second half; had Radford punted, there was a good chance Kauai could've taken back control of the game.

"We gave up fourth-and-long on the fake punt," Aguano said. "That was crucial. It just happens that way. Radford has been playing this way all year."

The Rams encountered yet another third down, needing seven yards for a first down at the Kauai 46. Lui-Yuen hit Pasigan for 25 yards to the Kauai 21. The Rams lost two yards on the next play and had an incomplete pass to make it third-and-12 from the 23. Lui-Yuen connected with Joran Murao for 22 yards to the Red Raiders' 1. On first down, Lui-Yuen followed his right guard into the end zone to pull the Rams to within one. With no hesitation, the Rams lined up for a 2-point conversion, but called time.

When play resumed, the Rams came out with an unbalanced line right with two linemen to the left of the center. The two left-side linemen then went into motion to the right side, leaving the center at the end of the line. Lui-Yuen took the snap, rolled left with an outside linebacker coming toward him. Lui-Yuen fired to a wide open Kakiva in the back of the end zone to compete the conversion.

"We practice that play everyday at practice," Lui-Yuen said. "We never used it once; it came in handy today."

"Cody (Lui-Yuen) had a horrible game, in my opinion, just off what the game looked like," Salanoa said. "But to throw that pass for the 2-point conversion, that's big time. That's why I told him, 'You might have made mistakes, I may have yelled at you, you may have thrown some picks, but you made the game-winning points with that throw because it could have gone either way.' Guys just stepped up and that's what it's all about."

The scoring started with the Rams' defense midway through the first quarter. The Red Raiders faced third-and-10 from their 20 and linebacker Logan Soakai returned an Aguano interception 20 yards for a touchdown with 6:02 in the first quarter. Conley's PAT made it 7-0.

Kauai tied the game later in the period with its special teams. Dreyke Smith-Butac blocked Conley's punt and recovered the ball in the end zone for a TD. Grant Basquez's PAT tied the game at 7 with 2:58 left in the quarter.

But the Rams responded with an eight-play, 62-yard drive with Lui-Yuen hitting Pasigan for a nine-yard TD to put Radford ahead, 14-7 with 25 seconds left in the first quarter.

The teams played a scoreless second quarter with Basquez's 40-yard field goal try missing wide left with 28 seconds left in the half.

The Red Raiders tied the game in the third quarter with the aid of an interception by Kaiea Iwasaki, whose 38-yard return put Kauai at the Rams' 17. On first down, Aguano connected with Chanse Ramirez for a TD at 8:37.

Late in the third quarter, the Red Raiders threatened to score, but Conley intercepted Aguano's pass in the end zone and returned it to the Rams' 14. Radford eventually punted and Basquez's 38-yard return put Kauai at the Radford 33. Four plays later, RB Reggie McFadden scored on an eight-yard run on the first play of the fourth quarter to put Kauai ahead, 21-14.