Moanalua’s sweep of the OIA wrestling championships on Saturday at Leilehua came with a breakthrough on the boys side.

Na Menehune became the first team from the East to wins the boys title since 2009, snapping the West’s nine-year run at the top.

It was the first boys title for Moanalua since 1998, while the girls won for the second straight year.

“We’ve been working for a long time trying to figure out how to win this team title,” senior Noah Wusstig said. “Our intensity has changed. We’ve been playing it smart — not going all out — training each other and learning how each other wrestles. We’ve all improved as a team.”

Wusstig, ranked No. 4 in Hawaii Prep World’s pound-for-pound rankings, led the way with his second league crown.

After winning at 138 last year, Wusstig moved up to 145 and pinned Leilehua’s Naikoa Simao.

It was meaningful for Wusstig, who had to go to overtime to beat Simao to win Officials in December.

“I got to show everybody that I can go the lab, fix on it, get better and improve,” Wusstig said. “I hadn’t been in overtime in like two years. It was good I got to see him in the finals because I knew it would be a good match.”

Na Menehune sophomore Boltyn Taam, who won an ILH championship as a freshman at Saint Louis before transferring, added a 160-pound OIA title to his trophy case.

Taam, who won the OIA East Division title a week ago when nobody else entered his division, won 5-1 over Leilehua’s Jhael Jb Jose.

“It went according to plan. Get the dub and get out of here,” Taam said. “This team has made me a better wrestler than last year. There’s a lot less guys in the ILH. These guys are definitely bigger at 160 than 152.”

The Moanalua girls team won multiple individual titles, including one at 132 pounds by senior Faith Joy Okubo, who knocked off top seed Chanel Hunter of Pearl City in the final seconds.

Hunter held a 1-0 lead with 15 seconds remaining when Okubo exploded for a two-point takedown and then rode out the win.

“It’s humbling and nerve-racking because all of my matches (feel like) they have come down to the last minute,” Okubo said. “In my mind I just put my heart into it and kept fighting for that takedown. When you really want to win you have it in your heart to fight for it.”

Okubo said she never looks at the clock during her matches and didn’t know how little time she had left.

It was also the first time she had advanced to the league finals.

“Being in that moment was a great feeling,” Okubo said. “Us pushing each other at every practice, not just the girls but the boys too, have made us stronger and better.”

Finals began at 8:20 p.m. after the start of Day 2 was moved back to 2 p.m. because it was an ACT test day.