Four wrestlers earned their third Oahu Interscholastic Association championship on Saturday at the Leilehua gym.
Nine others became two-time individual league champs, and the Campbell boys and Pearl City girls claimed team titles.
Three of the four three-peaters are boys — Kapolei’s Jayson Pagurayan and Shandon Ilaban-Totten and Leilehua’s Liam Corbett — and one is a girl — Radford’s Angela Peralta.
“It feels great to finish off my last year first in the OIA,” said Ilaban-Totten, the No. 5 wrestler in the Honolulu Star-Advertiser’s pound-for-pound rankings, who defeated Moanalua’s Antonio Ruiz 12-4 at 134 pounds. “Antonio is a tough competitor and he always gives me a hard match, some of the hardest matches I ever wrestle.”
Ilaban-Totten could be on a collision course with Kamehameha’s Blaysen Terukina, who wrapped up his fourth ILH title earlier Saturday, in next week’s state tournament. Terukina beat Ilaban-Totten 5-4 at the Officials Meet and both won state titles last year.
“I want to come back stronger at states and hopefully get that state title,” Ilaban-Totten said. “Blaysen is a really tough guy and he showed me that I’m beatable.”
Corbett, the defending 152-pound state champion and No. 2 in the p4p, won by technical fall over Pearl City’s Trevor Alvarado.
“I would have liked four (OIA titles), but my freshman year I took second,” he said. “It was good fun today. Glad I did it. “Next week is when it actually counts. This will mean nothing if I don’t win next week.”
Pagurayan, who just returned from a dislocated right shoulder and a sprained left shoulder, edged Kalani’s Draten Morisato 4-0 at 122 pounds.
Peralta, No. 4 in the pound-for-pound rankings and a transfer from Campbell, where she won her first two OIA titles, pinned Pearl City’s Jacqueline Fuamatu in the third period at 147.
“I was looking for that pin because my last two OIA championships I pinned them, so I was really trying for it again this time,” she said. “At states, I have no championships yet. Hopefully this year.”
Mikayla Abe (109), Asia Evans (129) and Jenny Fuamatu (170) won their matches to help the Chargers to the girls team title. They scored 142 points to top Campbell (136) and Waianae (117).
When she found out that Pearl City placed first, Jenny Fuamatu said, “I am so happy and I am going to go hug my coach and beg him to stay two more years for my senior year. He says he is going to retire.”
Fuamatu pulled off an upset with a second-period pin of Campbell’s Caragh Morris, who was going for her second OIA crown.
“My teammates push me to be the best,” she said.
The Campbell boys had four individual winners: Triston Santos (115), Zayren Terukina (128), Micah Tynanes (197) and James Sullivan (222).
“It’s exciting,” Sabers coach Lucas Misaki said. “We’re still hungry, though. We’re going to tell the team to just make sure we’re hungry. Enjoy this, but we got one more week before states.”
Campbell scored 196.5 points to beat a cluster of teams that battled for second. Leilehua and Moanalua tied for second with 157 and Kapolei was fourth with 156.5.
Brothers Zayren and Blaysen Terukina come from a long family line of winning Hawaii wrestlers, which includes dad Darryl.
“I wanted to make my dad proud. He went to Campbell, so I figured I’d try to stick with the trend,” Zayren Terukina said. “I don’t just stop here. There’s more to go, state championship.”
If things go well for Terukina, it’s possible he could face Punahou’s Cameron Kato at states. Kato, who is No. 1 in the p4p, moved up to 132 earlier this season to defeat Blaysen Terukina.
The nine wrestlers who won their second OIA crown Saturday are the Chargers’ Abe and Evans (No. 8 p4p), Kapolei’s Taysia Kano (140) and Rodman Salangdron (162), the Sabers’ Santos and Sullivan (No. 9 p4p), Waianae’s Sheldon Bailey (140, No. 10 p4p) and Jacob Naosusuga (172), and Mililani’s Zack Diamond (147).
Two pound-for-pound ranked wrestlers captured their first OIA titles — Roosevelt’s Menjam Tamang (99, No. 10) and Waianae’s Tehani Carlson (124, No. 9).