Kubasaki

Kadena's Keely Albrecht tries to slide past the tag of American School In Japan's Sasha Sasanuma. Albrecht got the win and the Panthers edged the Mustangs 10-9 during Wednesday round-robin play in the Far East Division I Softball Tournament.<br>Ayumi Davis/Special to Stripes

Far East roundup

Two records fall as three-day championships open

Momomi Atkinson faced a tough choice entering the first day of Far East track and field meet Wednesday: focus on her best event, the 300 hurdles, or try to score more team points for Edgren by also taking on the 400.

Maggie Donnelly paces Nile C. Kinnck's girls team with 28 goals entering Far East Division I. Midori Robinson and Zama's girls team are vying for their first Far East title since winning Division I in 2009.<br>William Takahashi/Special to Stripes

Far East girls soccer

Unbeaten Kinnick looks to regain title

Capturing the DODEA-Japan tournament and Kanto Plain regular-season titles and going unbeaten were just the start of Nile C. Kinnick’s girls soccer team’s labors, coach Nico Hindie said.

Joey Betts, a junior, and Osan's boys soccer team hopes to parlay their Korea Plate Tournament title into a run at their first Far East Division II tournament since 2005.<br>Dave Ornauer/Stars and Stripes

Far East boys soccer

Kadena gets a boost in time for championship

Kian Smith could not have felt worse about a victory.

Skylar Hensen-Drumm is one of a handful of transfers on Nile C. Kinnick's softball team, which is chasing its second Division I title in three years.<br>Jack Higbee/Special to Stripes

Far East softball

Last year's losing finalists look for redemption

Both tournaments feature round-robin play followed by a single-elimination tournament in D-I and double-elimination in D-II.

Freshman right-hander Jocelyn Powell allowed seven hits and four earned runs, striking out six in getting the victory in Kubasaki's 12-11 comeback win over Kadena in Game 1 of the Okinawa district softball finals.<br>Dave Ornauer/Stars and Stripes

Kubasaki sweeps Kadena to head into Far East on high note

Dragons won both the regular-season and district best-of-three finals in back-to-back seasons for the first time.

Nile C. Kinnick junior speedster Chris Watson, center, holds the Pacific's fastest 100-meter dash time of 11.15 seconds entering the Far East meet.<br>Austin Fisher/Special to Stripes

Far East track

Humphreys athletes chase individual, team titles on track

Where Humphreys High School’s track and field team is concerned, the expression “All Eyes On Us” might well be apropos.

Kadena's Alexa Smith and Kubasaki goalkeeper Abbigail Irwin nearly collide after Smith sends a shot wide of the net, as Dragons' Angelica Figueroa looks on during Friday's Okinawa girls soccer match. The Panthers won 7-2 to sweep the season series.<br>Dave Ornauer/Stars and Stripes

Prep roundup

Another Callahan starting to emerge for Kadena

Junior has registered four goals and six assists in three matches since joining the team and has “fit in really easily,” coach Abe Summers said.

Kubasaki's Jaidah Davis leaps her way to victory in Saturday's Okinawa district finals 100 hurdles.<br>Dave Ornauer/Stars and Stripes

Prep roundup

Kadena's Morris among those making big strides in track

This is just Morris’ first season of track and field; prior to this season, he played baseball.

Nile C. Kinnick baserunner Rebecca Loffreda is safe at first as Yokota first baseman Isabella Mollison looks back for the ball during Saturday's DODEA-Japan softball tournament final. The Panthers won 11-9.<br>Jessica McCollum/Special to Stripes

Prep roundup

Yokota retains DODEA-Japan baseball title, reclaims softball crown

Perry and Kinnick triumph in boys and girls soccer tourneys as champs crowned in four sports.

Kadena senior Keyyana Womack leaves the pack in her wake as she wins the 400 in 1 minute, 1.29 seconds during Saturday's Okinawa track and field meet.<br>Mary Obsuna/Special to Stripes

Prep roundup

Kadena dominating boys long-distance races on Okinawa

Yokota softball team wins eighth straight, while baseball counterparts down Nile c. Kinnick on abbreviated no-hitter.

Kubasaki's William Moseley tries to drive between Chadwick's Tej Joshi and Gibran Khalil.<br>Dave Ornauer/Stars and Stripes

Chadwick edges Kubasaki to retain Perry Cup title

Kubasaki came up just short in its bid for a Perry Cup soccer tournament title in the Dragons’ first appearance in the in-season invitational.

Senior Kierden Blessing is perhaps the best individual talent on an otherwise thin-on-experience Humphreys squad.<br>Molly Austinson/Special to Stripes

Baseball preview

Ferch hopes that seven times is the charm for Kadena

If holding onto a DODEA coaching position was based solely on performance, then on paper, it would seem that Steven Ferch had little left to prove.

Freshman Jocelyn Powell brings a solid glove and a potent bat to Kubasaki's softball team.<br>Dave Ornauer/Stars and Stripes

Softball preview

Defending champs have new look, but same mission

Of all the challenges Kubasaki’s girls softball team has faced in its 17 years of existence, this year’s is perhaps the most daunting, Jalyn Foster said.

Yokota distance runners Anneliese Schneider, Emi Dashler, Aiko Galvin and Siu Davis go through their practice paces. In the background is boys distance runner Mickey Galvin.<br>Greg Holladay/Special to Stripes

Track preview

King's debut means that everyone's on track in Pacific

For the first time since it became a Far East tournament sport in 2010, all DODEA-Pacific schools now have track and field teams.

Humphreys' Tevijon Williams heads for the finish of the boys 200 during Saturday's Humphreys Invitational track and field meet. Williams won the 100 and 200 and ran the second leg of Humphreys' first-place 400-meter relay team.<br>Krystal Duenas/Special to Stripes

Prep roundup

King boys beat Perry in soccer for first time in a decade

Cobras avenge 5-1 defeat on Friday to edge Samurai 2-1 on Saturday and earn season-opening split.

Sophomore Abigail Irwin is one of two players vying for Kubasaki's girls soccer team's goalkeeping job. <br>Dave Ornauer/Stars and Stripes

Girls soccer preview

Stars return for several teams with high hopes

A slew of Pacific girls soccer stars are back for encore performances and appear primed to lead their teams to prominence.

Senior Kai Lange of Matthew C. Perry, right, set a Pacific single-season record with 85 goals last season.<br>Vanessa Badiola/Special to Stripes

Boys soccer preview

Perry, Kadena start off seasons experimenting

Why mess with success? To achieve even more success, or at least that’s the theory of two of DODEA-Pacific’s top soccer programs.

Kubasaki's Luke Moseley takes control of St. Mary's Cole Lawlor at 148 pounds.<br>Sontti Sesay/Special to Stripes

Edgren, St. Mary's take dual-meet titles

It gave Edgren a sweep of both the dual-meet and individual-freestyle team titles for the first time since 2016.

Yokota's Caleb Heino grimaces as Christian Academy Japan's Jordan Van Druff takes command in the 108-pound final.<br>Emma Stevens/Special to Stripes

Korean-based wrestlers, Kubasaki shine on the mats

Two Osan wrestlers and one from Humphreys take individual titles, while Dragons end St. Mary's-Kinnick run on championships.

Atiria Simms is the main backcourt option for a Kadena team that almost beat two-time champion American School Bangkok during last year's Far East. Emily Taynton and Hana Robbins are two players returning for a four-time defending D-II champion Yokota team that lost its two main guns from last year, Britney and Jamia Bailey.<br>Mayu Ono/Special to Stripes

Daegu, Zama head small-school field

Super sophomores Bethani Newbold and Dai’Ja Turner and the Warriors went 12-0 in the regular season.

Senior Quintin Metcalf has averaged 24.3 points and 10.4 rebounds for a Humphreys team that's 25-0 and enters the Far East Division I tournament at Humphreys as a favorite.<br>Mary Sarantakes/Special to Stripes

Far East boys basketball

Humphreys, King clear favorites in boys tourneys

It’s been awhile since two boys basketball teams entered Far East tournaments with the huge bull’s-eyes being toted by Division I favorite Humphreys and Division II favorite E.J. King.

St. Mary's Austin Koslow and Yokota's Austin Fisher finished 1-2 in both the Beast of the Far East and the Kanto finals and are considered odds on to chase the Far East 180-pound title.<br>Emma Stevens/Special to Stripes

Several teams believe they've got shot at Far East crown

For the first time in six years, there appears to be no clear favorite entering this week’s Far East wrestling tournament, at least in the Division I field.

Mya Rolison, a sophomore transfer from Maryland, helps lead Seoul American girls in this weekend's Korea Plate Tournament fresh off her first triple-double of the season in the Falcons' 27-point win over Taejon Christian.<br>Dave Ornauer/Stars and Stripes

Falcon girls starting to soar in final season

Seoul American’s most recent win in a five-game run came Wednesday in the regular-season finale. Mya Rolison, a sophomore transfer, had her lone triple-double of the season: 12 points, 11 rebounds, 10 steals.

Christian Academy Japan's Jordan Van Druff gains the edge on Kubasaki's Noah Vasquez en route to victory in the 108-pound final of Saturday's Nile C. Kinnick Invitational "Beast of the Far East" wrestling tournament.<br>Sheila Suckart/Special to Stripes

Shonan reminds wrestlers they have work to do before Far East

Japanese school takes five weight class titles and team victory in annual "Beast of Far East" tournament.

Senior Quintin Metcalf and the Humphreys Blackhawks boys basketball team gets to do something it hasn't done before -- a chance to tune up for Far East with their first appearance in the ASIJ Kanto Classic tournament Thursday-Saturday.<br>Mary Sarantakes/Special to Stripes

Humphreys joins mix at ASIJ hoop tourney

The American School In Japan Kanto Classic is considered the major in-season tune-up for Far East, featuring some of the same teams the Blackhawks will face in next month’s Division I Tournament at Humphreys.

Kubasaki's Dylan Canlas drives against Taipei American during Sunday's Taipei Basketball Exchange boys game. The Tigers edged the Dragons 65-58.<br>Tia McMillan/Special to Stripes

Kadena boys survive test from Taipei

Until Saturday, the Panthers and Dragons boys and girls teams had only faced each other.

Dyson Robinson, left, and E.J. King head to Kobe for this weekend's Western Japan Athletic Association boys tournament; Rodrick King and Nile C. Kinnick travel to American School In Japan for a rematch of last January's Far East Division I and combined tournament finals.<br>Shion Rudolph/Special to Stripes

Okinawa schools set to host Taipei

It's the first time this season that Kadena and Kubasaki will play other teams with American players other than themselves.

E.J. King's James Meachum skies for a shot against Nile C. Kinnick during Saturday's Japan boys basketball game. The Red Devils won 54-34, handing the Cobras their first loss in nine games this season.<br>Shion Rudolph/Special to Stripes

Prep roundup

Edgren boys, Zama girls are last unbeatens on Japan

Kadena continues hardwood domination of Kubasaki and Turner does just about everything for Daegu.

Yokota junior Caleb Heino is one of five returning champions from last year's Far East tournament.<br>Corrine Nepaial/Special to Stripes

Wrestling preview

This might be the year that someone breaks the St. Mary's-Kinnick monopoly

After five seasons of dominance by St. Mary’s and Nile C. Kinnick on the Far East Division I wrestling scene, it’s pretty much starting-over time for the Titans and Red Devils - particularly for the latter.

Ebony Dykes, who previously played for Seoul American, is now a senior at Humphreys; Dai'Ja Turner returns as a sophomore for up-and-coming Daegu's girls basketball team.<br>Mary Sarantakes/Special to Stripes

Girls basketball preview

Fields wide open on who will make it championship games

And while American School of Bangkok might again soar to a D-I title, the small-schools title is up for grabs, now that Yokota’s super seniors, Britney and Jamia Bailey, have graduated.

Kubasaki school info

Location: Camp Foster, Okinawa
Mascot: Dragons
Colors: Green and white
Enrollment: 664
Website: http://www.kubasaki-hs.pac.dodea.edu/

Principal: Gregory Mowen
Athletic director: Jon Fick

Coaches:
Football: Fred Bales
Tennis: Amanda Vinson
Cross country: Paul Campbell
Girls volleyball: Mike Hogen
Boys basketball: Jon Fick
Girls basketball: Steven Casner
Wrestling: Brent Cook
Boys soccer: Christopher Eastman
Girls soccer: Steven Casner
Golf: Saleem Malek
Baseball: Randy Toor
Softball: Trevor Thibert
Track and field: Kenneth Gipson

Wall of champions

Far East Championships for Kubasaki:

2017

Division I girls volleyball
Track: Ja'Tavia Callier, girls 100 hurdles

2016

Division I volleyball
Division I boys basketball
Division I boys soccer
Division I girls soccer

2015

Division I boys basketball
Track: Kaelyn Francis, girls 100, girls 200; girls 400 relay
Wrestling: Christian Fernandez, heavyweight
Division I volleyball

2014

Division I volleyball
Division I girls soccer
Division I boys track
Track: Rahman Farnell, boys 100; Francis, girls 200
Wrestling: Zach Tyler, 101; Austin Cyr, 148; Tanner Stamper, 158; Fernandez, heavyweight

2013

Division I baseball
Division I football
Division I wrestling (dual)
Boys track
Track: Farnell, boys 100, boys 200; boys 400 relay; Ryan Bugler, boys 800; Erik Armes, boys 1,600, boys 3,200; Jesica Ircink, girls 1,600; Allie Reichenberg, girls 3,200; girls 3,200 relay
Wrestling: Daniel Mora, 108; Steven Walter, 115; Cyr, 148; Fred Suniga, 215

2012

Division I girls soccer
Division I softball
Division I boys basketball
Wrestling: Walter, 108; Suniga, 215

2011

Division I boys basketball
Cross country: Armes, boys
Track: boys 400 relay; Vallen Alleyne, girls shot put, girls discus
Wrestling: Walter, 101; Jonathan Goddard, 141; Matt Payne, 180

2010

Baseball
Track: A.J. Watson, boys 100, boys 200; boys 400 relay; Alleyne, girls discus; Micaela Sherman, girls 110 hurdles

2009

Division I wrestling
Wrestling: Scott Wood, 122

2008

Division I boys soccer
Wrestling: Wood, 115; Bucky Shaw, heavyweight

2007

Division I boys basketball
Division I girls soccer
Wrestling: Wood, 108; Matt Maza, 129; Jorge Cristobal, 215

2006

Cross country: Matt Coon, boys
Wrestling: Wood, 101; Steve Courtney, 158

2005

Division I football
Wrestling
Wrestling: Jack Abate, 101; Maza, 122; Courtney, 148; Paul Haecherl, heavyweight

2004

Division I girls basketball

2003

Division I girls soccer

2002

Division I boys soccer
Division I girls soccer
Wrestling (dual)
Division I girls basketball

2001

Boys soccer
Wrestling: T.J. Aguila, 101; Bobby Duncan, 122

2000

Wrestling
Wrestling: Aguila, 101; Duncan, 115; Russell Micho, 168; Josh Collins, heavyweight

1999

Wrestling
Wrestling: Liam Mulcahy, 101; Will Greer, 129; Christian Pilapil, 135; Justin L. Miller, 158

1998

Wrestling
Wrestling: JL.Miller, 148

1997

Wrestling (individual)
Division I boys basketball
Wrestling: JL.Miller, 141; Joe Guerrero, heavyweight

1996

Wrestling: Justin S. Miller, 129; JL.Miller, 135

1995

Wrestling (individual)
Tennis: Theresa Felix, girls singles; Felix and Stephanie Supko, girls doubles
Wrestling: JS.Miller, 115; Kris Huffman, 122; Matt Murray, 141; Adam Koch, 180

1994

Wrestling
Wrestling: Dan Charboneau, 101; Darby James, 108; Huffman, 122; Rob Meade, 129

1993

Division I girls basketball
Wrestling: Tom Chavez, 101; Anthony Brooker, 108; Jamel Smith, heavyweight

1992

Wrestling
Wrestling: Chavez, 101; Jed Burt, 122; James Simon, 135; Crhis Murray, 148

1991

Wrestling
Wrestling: Steve Sigafus, 108; Michael Hogan, 115; Simon, 129; Mike Lindblom, 135; Doug Hoston, 158; Smith, 180; Wilbur Harbor, 221-260

1990

Division I girls basketball
Wrestling: Milo Stafford, 115

1989

Division I boys basketball
Wrestling: Johnny Wirsig, 148; Elbert Bailey, 168; Monte Scrivner, 180

1988

Division I boys basketball
Girls cross country
Wrestling
Wrestling: Bailey, 158; Don Patterson, 168; Wiley Cooke, 180

1987

Wrestling: Robert Treacher, 108; Brian Hughes, 122; Trevor Lyons, 158

1986

Division I girls basketball
Wrestling
Wrestling: Drew Scheuerman, 122; Tony Pacheco, 129; Alan Mrano, 135; Robert Melville, 141; Ken Monaco, 180

1985

Division I girls basketball
Wrestling
Wrestling: Scheuerman, 115; Al.Morano, 122; Melville, 135; Richard Wittington, 141; John Higa, 158; Mike Beyma, 180

1984

Wrestling (co-champs)
Wrestling: Tsuyoshi Wells, 101; Robert Westberg, 141; Higa, 148; Victor Sim, 158

1983

Wrestling
Wrestling: Ariel Morano, 101; Mark Beyma, 158; Robert Mundy, heavyweight

1982

Wrestling: Tom Taniguchi, 158

1980

Division I girls basketball
Wrestling: Wayne Tanaguchi, 101

1979

Division I girls basketball
Wrestling: Masaru Yamada, 148

1978

Division I girls basketball
Wrestling: John Bush, 115, Joe Robinson, 122; Don Bush, 129; Yamada, 141

1977

Wrestling
Wrestling: Eugene Kim, 101; Richard Harrison, 108; Art Maccaro, 141

1976

Wrestling: Mike Dumapay, 158, Fred Freee, 180; Robert Kellberg, hevyweight

1975

Wrestling: Custis Tamon, 101; Cliff Tamashiro, 115; Ken Kitagawa, 148; Mike Brown, 168; John Bohush, heavyweight

1974

Wrestling: Mike Nakashima, 108; Brown, 170

1967

Division I boys basketball

1961

Division I boys basketball

1960

Division I boys basketball

1959

Division I boys basketball

1956

Division I boys basketball

Pacific Scoreboard List

Boys basketball preview

Kinnick, Humphreys can't both win Far East titles this year

Nile C. Kinnick won a Far East boys basketball title last year. So did Humphreys. This year, at least one of those teams won’t. At least not all by themselves.