How sweet it would have been for Ka’u girls basketball and coach Cy Lopez.
The Trojans were hanging with Punahou a few weeks ago at the HPA Girls Tip-Off Classic with a chance to win or tie the game on the final possession and earn bragging rights against a state power.
Trailing by two points and with time ticking away, Kianie Medeiros-Dancel beat a defender and was about to dribble into the paint, her coach said, when the sophomore slipped on a wet spot on the court and was called for traveling. This denied Lopez a chance to take a picture of a scoreboard that read Ka’u beating Punahou — and he wouldn’t have had to tell anyone that the Buffanblu only sent their second team to the tournament.