Against cross winds up to 30 mph and a defiant Delaware State football team, quarterback Brayden Schager willed Hawaii to a 35-14 victory at the Ching Complex. A crowd of 10,279 saw Schager pass for two touchdowns and run for two more to help the Rainbow Warriors win their first season opener in Timmy Chang’s three-season tenure as head coach. “The kid’s tough,” Chang said.
“Schager’s a good football player. I love that kid. He’s tough, he’s competitive, and he can throw the ball.
He was challenged tonight. He was challenged with the elements, the gusts. And he’s cutting it through the wind.
He did awesome. As he goes, we go.” Despite a 14-point push from the end of the second quarter to early in the third, the Hornets endured the trip from heck.
The Hornets were scheduled to arrive in town on Tuesday afternoon, with two practices, an excursion to Pearl Harbor and a luau on the pregame itinerary. But the Wertz Motor Coaches’ problems in picking up the team at the Dover campus on Tuesday morning and then finding the correct route to John F. Kennedy International Airport in Queens, N.
Y., resulted in the 110-member travel party missing the 101⁄2-hour, non-stop flight to Honolulu. By Thursday afternoon, the last of the Hornets’ four travel groups arrived in town.
But the Hornets did not bring along a system allowing direct communication between the coaching staff and a quarterback. Because each team is responsible for supplying their own system, Chang wa.