It has become a running joke for the UH-Hilo volleyball team that comfort comes when matches go five sets because it’s such a frequent occurrence.

There was little doubt the San Francisco Giants were gigantic underdogs to win the National League West title, which the Los Angeles Dodgers won the last eight years, including the World Series during the Covid-shortened 2020 season.

It was a bittersweet first home match for the UH-Hilo volleyball team, which beat a tough foe in Biola but lost one of its best players to injury in senior opposite Alex Parisian, who injured her knee in the second set and didn’t return.

 Misaki Saito believes her son Leo’s golfing success comes from Tiger’s hat.

For nearly two decades, the UH-Hilo men’s soccer team wasn’t competitive at all, running a 12-year losing streak and gaining ground on the baseball program’s national record for futility, a 26-year skid.

UHH junior Keith Ng has played in just three tournaments, but the transfer from the University of British Columbia is quickly building a case as the school’s greatest golfer ever.

BIIF football coordinator Kalei Namohala has heard from Hilo High and Konawaena.

Earl Tamiya believes once his UH-Hilo golfers gets off their self-inflicted roller coaster their potential will take over and scores should level out.

Hilo senior defensive tackle Tysen Kaniaupio made the Polynesian Bowl, an all-star football game featuring elite players of Polynesian heritage and other ancestries.

There is more to Alex Parisian than meets the eye, the big-game right-side hitter for the UH-Hilo volleyball team, who qualifies as the most interesting Vulcan.

The UH-Hilo volleyball team hits the road playing its first PacWest opponents, a really good one in Chaminade and a not so good one in Hawaii Pacific.

Jase Ambrosio saw his shot at a college scholarship sailing away, especially with no game film for coaches to evaluate, so he connected with all right people and landed in Utah, where playing football is making his dream come true.

After UH-Hilo golfer Keith Ng won his first NCAA Division II tournament on Monday in his debut as a Vulcan on Oahu, the University of British Columbia transfer immediately turned into a student.

It must be in the genetics for the Ha family to set bench-press records, even when the youngsters enter a competition for the first time.

The UH-Hilo volleyball team took care of business, sweeping St. Martin’s after falling to the Saints in four sets in the season-opener a day earlier.

Chris Leonard likes to tell the UH-Hilo volleyball team’s Tom Brady-version tale of how the program qualified for the postseason in 2019 for the first time in eight years.

The UH-Hilo women’s soccer team still has the same 13-year-old problem — a lack of offense, despite three Division I transfer forwards, who were supposed to add scoring punch.