He wrestled with the idea of changing sports, but stuck with tennis.

And for Kalani's Jared Spiker — younger brother of two state-champion wrestlers — it paid off with a O'ahu Interscholastic Association singles championship yesterday at Central O'ahu Regional Park.

Spiker, who competed in high school tennis for the first time this year, beat Pearl City's Larson Oliva, 6-1, 6-2.

"I knew he would be tough because he was the top player in the West," Spiker said of Oliva. "I just wanted to impose my will throughout the match. I wanted to get ahead and keep the lead."

Spiker's brother Jason won a state championship in wrestling for Kaiser earlier this year, and oldest brother Jonathan was a four-time state champion wrestler for Saint Louis.

"I wrestled up until the sixth grade," Jared said. "But I saw tennis on TV and I thought it looked cool."

He considered going back to wrestling after seeing the success his brothers enjoyed.

"My brother was excelling and I thought it would be cool to have two brothers in the state championships," said Jared, who went to Kaiser his freshman and sophomore years. "I held off; I couldn't resist tennis."

Spiker's Kalani teammates, Nicholas Lee and Cody Lau, both sophomores, won the boys doubles title with a 6-4, 6-2 win over Remii Tanaka and Jireh Lin of Mililani.

"It feels really good, especially for Kalani," Lee said. "We don't win a lot."

While the boys singles and doubles matches ended in under an hour, Radford's Demetria Woods needed almost 2 1/2 hours to beat Moanalua's Janelle Ng, 7-5, 6-2, in the girls singles final.

"I knew she was really consistent, so I knew I had to expect a long match," said Woods, who lost two games in her previous two matches.

"In the first set I just stayed patient and then in the second set I was hitting more aggressive than tentative," said Woods, a senior who finished fourth in the previous two OIA championships.

Mililani had two teams in the girls doubles final. Junior Adrienne Hamada repeated as a doubles champion, teaming with freshman Kimberly Takara. They defeated teammates Melissa Monette and Kaylee Yamamoto, 4-6, 6-0, 6-4.

Although Hamada won her second straight title, it was her first championship match. Last year, her opponents had to drop out because of an injury before the match.

"The first set, it was all nerves, because I didn't play (last year) so it was different," Hamada said.