The first game of the 2011 high school football season had it all.
Except a winner.
Leilehua (Wahiawa, Hawaii) senior quarterback Kenan Sadanaga passed for more than 375 yards and four touchdowns to four different receivers including two scores in the final eight minutes lifting his team to a 34-34 tie with visiting
Service (Anchorage, Alaska) in a game billed as the Fire and Ice Bowl Thursday night.
Sadanaga, the leading returning passer from 2010 in Hawaii, fired TD passes of five yards to Larry Paas and 9 yards to Cole Decorte to erase a 34-21 fourth-quarter deficit.
Service, a state large-school finalist last year in Alaska, squander leads of 14-0, 21-7 and 27-15 but got a huge performance from first-year starting quarterback
Viliamu Aukusitino, who accounted for four touchdowns.
Aukustino ran for two scores, completed an 83-yard TD pass to
Daniel Murakami and then seemed to ice the game with a 98-yard interception return early in the fourth quarter.
But Sadanaga, who also threw TD passes of 19 yards to Jeremiah Andrade and 70 yards to Allen Racette led the home team back.
This was the first meeting between teams from the two small states since 1999, when Service defeated Kahuku, also in Hawaii.
The game was organized by
Service offensive coordinator Fenumiai "Numi" Ilalio Jr., who used to coach at Leilehua while stationed in Honolulu for the Army National Guard in the early 1990s.
During a recent trip back to the Island for the National Guard, Numi joked to a some Leilehua assistants that it would be fun for Service to open the season in Hawaii.
With some diligent planning and communicating from both sides, the game was announced in January.
Both states will open play full force over the next two days. No other states in the country will begin play until next week.
