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Nevada’s Sprague Kolp shot a 3-under-par 69 yesterday to clinch medalist honors of the three-day Taylor Made Intercollegiate Golf Tournament on the Big Island.
Kolp finished with a 3-over 217 total to beat Arizona State’s Matt Jones by one stroke. Jones also shot 69 at the Waikoloa Beach Resort’s Kings Course.
Brigham Young’s Scott Miller (73) and Texas’ Matt Dobyns (67) tied for third at 220.
Texas won the team title with an 893 total or 37 over par, followed by Arizona State (899) and Texas Christian (900).
University of Hawai‘i-Manoa tied for 14th with 937, and UH-Hilo finished last in the 24-team field with 978.
Jaime Matsumura of UH-Manoa shot a 65 - the day’s best round in the 120-player field - to lead his team with a 230 total, tied for 32nd. Garrett Okamura shot 73-236 (tied for 61st) to lead UH-Hilo.
Punahou School graduate Parker McLachlin, playing for UCLA, shot 74-224 to finish in a tie for 10th.
AWARDS
 QB Club Banquet: The 54th annual Honolulu Quarterback Club’s Banquet of Champions will be held tomorrow night at the Pacific Beach Hotel Grand Ballroom.
The banquet, which starts at 6:30, will honor nearly four dozen Hawai‘i individuals for their accomplishments in Hawai‘i sports during the past year.
Among those honored will be Hawai‘i athletes who competed in the 2000 Olympics, as well as national championship teams such as the Hawai‘i Pacific women’s volleyball team and the Brigham Young-Hawai‘i tennis team.
Awards also will be given to male and female athletes of the year in high schools, adults and seniors, as well as the sportspersons of the year and coach of the year.
Tickets may be purchased from the Quarterback Club for $30 by calling either 732-8805 or 261-5143.
RUNNING
Chang earns World berth: Victoria Chang, Stanford freshman from Honolulu, took second place yesterday in the Junior Women’s championship race at the Winter Cross Country Nationals in Vancouver, Wash.
Chang, a 2000 Punahou School graduate and the 1999 national cross country champion, earned a spot on the USA Track and Field Junior National team for the World Championships at Dublin, Ireland, next month.
Chang controlled the pace for most of the junior women’s 6K championship, but Laura Zeigle and Alicia Craig remained in contact the entire way, and Zeigle broke away for the victory in 21 minutes, 18.4 seconds on the third 2K lap.
Chang finished in 21:30.3, followed by Craig in 21:46.6.
WATER POLO
Wahine remain unbeaten: Joanne Ansell scored three goals and fellow freshman Karin van Hoff made five steals and scored once to lead the University of Hawai‘i to a 14-5 thrashing of UC San Diego last night at the Duke Kahanamoku Aquatic Complex.
Christi Bardecki, Andrea Nishioka, Chelsea Garner-Prohs and Traci Jo Trochinski scored two goals apiece for the Wahine, who improved to 7-0.
Samara Silverman scored twice for UC San Diego (2-4).
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