St. Louis sharpshooter second in air-riflery nationals
Advertiser Staff
St. Louis School senior Ryan Tanoue is the second-best teen-age air rifle shooter in the nation, and only the national collegiate champion is better.
Tanoue, of Kaimuki, placed second Saturday in the National Junior Olympics Men's Air Rifle championships at the Olympic Training Center at Colorado Springs, Colo.
He lost in the final shoot-off by 1.1 points to NCAA champion Matthew Emmons of Brown Mills, N.J. Emmons, a sophomore at University of Alaska-Fairbanks, won the NCAA title on March 9.
Tanoue won a silver medal and a place on the national development team.
He will compete in the small-bore championships, which ends today.
Tanoue finished with 1,281.3 points (1,179 on the twice-around 60-shot qualification course competing with 71 other state-level qualifiers, and 102.3 in the 10-shot, eight-shooter finals). Emmons' overall score, which determines the championship, was 10.9 points higher at 1292.2.
Tanoue was the state high-school air rifle champion last fall and has won the Interscholastic League of Honolulu small-bore championship the past three years and the air rifle title the past two years.
GOLF
• OIA semifinals: The semifinal round of the O'ahu Interscholastic Association team championships will be played today at 10:04 a.m. at Makaha Golf Club.
Four boys and four girls teams qualified in the round-robin season.
Boys teams in the semifinals are Kahuku, Moanalua, Pearl City and Leilehua. Girls teams are Moanalua, Roosevelt, 'Aiea and Radford.
The two survivors today will play for the league team championship April 9 at 10 a.m. at Wai'alae Country Club, barring a state teachers' strike.
Kaiser shared the Eastern Division girls title with Moanalua and Roosevelt but lost a playoff berth in a tiebreaker on Thursday. Kahuku's boys won a tiebreaker from Moanalua to get the No. 1 East boys seeds, but the teams officially share the division championship.
Individual championship tournaments to determine entries in the state high school tournament are scheduled April 16, 17 and 24.
TRACK & FIELD
• Strong arm: State softball Pitcher of the Year Shannon Tabion of Baldwin threw the discus a meet record 132 feet, 7 inches Saturday at the 48th annual Yamamoto Invitational at War Memorial Stadium in Wailuku, Maui.
King Kekaulike's Annie Loney (5:08.0 in the 1,500) and Seabury Hall's Tia Ferguson (11:05.2 in the 3,000) also set girls' meet records. No boys meet records were set.
Moloka'i's Demarques Potter, who won the 100, 200 and 400, was named Outstanding Male Athlete and Baldwin's Tatiana Romano, who won both hurdles races, was named Outstanding Female Athlete.
The Yamamoto is the oldest continuous high school meet in Hawai'i.
BASKETBALL
• Kaua'i 49, Kapa'a 47: Misty Hug's basket with 2.6 seconds left won it for the Raiders on Friday.
KAPA'A (0-2) 13 11 11 12 — 47
KAUA'I (1-0) 13 10 13 13 — 49
Kaua'i: Belinda Butac 14. Kapa'a: Ashley Farias 17 points, 6 rebounds.
BASEBALL
• Kaua'i 3, Waimea 2: Scott Oshima's solo home run in the top of the second put the Warriors ahead to stay on Saturday.
The second game was suspended after 6 1/2 innings because of darkness with Kaua'i leading, 8-7.
KAUA'I (2-0) 021 000 0 — 3
WAIMEA (0-2) 020 000 0 — 2
WP—Alec Richly. S—Mark Rodrigues. LP—Rayson Cacal.
Kaua'i: Alec Richly 2-3; Quintin Estacio 2-3, RBI; Scott Oshima solo homer.
