Last Saturday, Waiakea lost to Waimea 38-0 in a preseason game on Kauai, where the Menehune ruled on the Garden Isle gridiron for a long time.
The Menehune once captured 12 straight Kauai Interscholastic Federation championships, the last in 2003.
That year was Waimea’s last appearance at the HHSAA state tournament. Since then Kauai High and Kapaa have taken turns representing the three-school KIF at states.
The Menehune, once a model of consistency, has fallen on tough times, in part because no one could replicate the winning formula of former coach Jon Kobayashi, now Waimea’s athletic director.