Moanalua kept the 64th Francis Hyde I‘i Brown Four Ball Championship in the family Sunday. It hopes to extend that success to the state high school golf championship later this week.

Menehune teammates Jun Ho "Kenneth" Won and Shawn Lu outlasted 30-somethings Jared Lydon and Robert Richardson 3 and 2 in a final scheduled for 36 holes. Won closed it out on the 16th at Ala Wai with his fourth birdie in eight holes.

"Kenny started making putts from everywhere," said Lydon, who met Richardson five years ago when both were in the Air Force. "Even when we were in close and we thought we got this hole, they’d make it from off the green. We were like, ‘OK.’ "

A year ago, Moanalua’s Kyosuke Hara and Punahou’s Kyle Suppa won the Brown Four-Ball. The high school juniors didn’t defend because of a late invite to the U.S. Amateur Four-Ball Championship at the Olympic Club in San Francisco.

The inaugural event’s youngest team tied for third in Sunday’s qualifying and opens match play this morning. The championship is scheduled for Wednesday afternoon. The David S. Ishii Foundation boys championship tees off the next morning at Waikoloa Kings’.

Punahou — with or without Suppa — will be trying to win its sixth title in eight years. Moanalua — with Lu, Won and possibly Hara — will be going after its second title in four years. The Menehune’s 2012 championship was the OIA’s first since 1980.

Their imprint on the Brown Four Ball goes much deeper. Moanalua alum Jared Sawada has won it three times, with three different partners, since 2007. Tyler Ota won it twice, the last time (2012) beating Hara and Suppa by himself because his partner had to fly out early for the state high school tournament. Tadd Fujikawa, another grad, won the Brown in 2005, when he was 14.

In other words, young Menehune champs like Lu and Won — both 16 — are old news.

It took them 22 holes to get the lead Sunday. Lydon, the medalist at last year’s Manoa Cup, and Richardson won three of the first four holes in the morning round and they were still 2 up after 16.

"All I know is they were hot," said Lu, the reigning State Amateur Stroke Play champ. "Jared got really hot in the beginning. I think the turning point might have been the first hole of the second round, because that’s when we finally got back to even. Then we just took off from there."

Lu’s second eagle in four holes cut the deficit to one by lunch and he and Won claimed three of the first four holes in the afternoon to take the lead.

"They caught on fire," Lydon said. "Quick."

Lydon and Richardson, who moves to New Jersey today, tied the match for the last time with wins at Nos. 7 and 8.

That’s when Won got hot. He dropped an 8-footer for birdie on the ninth and a 3-footer at the next hole to put his team 2 up — with Lu waiting on an 8-foot birdie opportunity.

"Putting-wise, if we had the same score and even if his ball was closer to the hole I had him go first because he is better without any pressure," said Lu, who won the last two Makalena Four-Ball titles with Hara. "He makes every putt with no pressure."

Lydon dropped birdie putts on the next two holes. Lu covered the second one and bogeys on the 14th by Lydon and Richardson put the high school teammates back to 2 up.

Won ended it with another deft pitch and run to 4 feet on the 16th.

Neil Shinagawa and Bino Barrientos, last year’s B Flight champs, won A Flight this time, 5 and 3 over Henry Natividad and Charles Abanes. Mark Tong and Ryan Yoneda needed 38 holes to capture B Flight over Patrick Higa and Glenn Hasebe.