Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 5, Number 6, 1 June 1988 — 6 Molokaʻi Players to Attend College [ARTICLE]

6 Molokaʻi Players to Attend College

With Hawaii basketball prep Player of the Year Jarinn Akana committed to attending college at Brigham Young University, Hawai'i campus at Laie, the other five seniors of this year's Maui Interscholastic League ehampion Moloka'i High School team are also planning to attend college. Forward Peter Trinidad, who has a grade point average of 4.0, is going to Seattle University . T rinidad was the school valedictorian at this year's commencement, the second basketball player to have this honor. The first was Tracy Tengan in 1986, currently at Penn State University. Trinidad's cousin and forward, Artemio, along with guard Junior Ragasa, will be attending Honolulu Community College. Joe Kalipi, a guard, is enrolling at Kapiolani Community College while Donny Sayaboc, forward, is going to the University of Hawaii Manoa. Four of the six remaining players are juniors. They are Carter Davis, Robert Ragasa, Fernan Caspillo, and Matt Helm. Kimo Von Oelhoffen and Kaleo Fili are sophomores.

The players were honored at a recognition banquet Apr. 22 at the Moloka'i Yacht Club. Three of them, however, were unable to attend because of a track meet on Maui. They were Caspillo, Helm and Von Oelhoffen.