High school notes
Freshmen flash skills in soccer
Advertiser Staff
Two O'ahu high school freshmen drew strong praise for their play with the U.S. Youth Soccer's regional Olympic Development team in Costa Rica recently.
Kamehameha's David Gualdarama and Mililani's Brent Murakami played for the U.S. Youth Soccer Region IV Boys ODP '86 under-15 team that won four of five games on its trip.
Tim Shultz, head regional boys ODP coach, said, "David Gualdarama did a tremendous job. He is very athletic and adds a lot of flair to the Regional Team. David is a role model for the younger Hawaiian kids aspiring to make something of their soccer dreams.
"Brent Murakami also did a fantastic job for the Region IV team. He played strong and powerful and will run through a brick wall for you. Brent scored a great goal in the final game of the tour."
Gualdarama plays for the Leeward Soccer Club and Murakami for the Mililani Soccer Club. They were selected to the national players pool last summer at a camp in Nampa, Idaho.
RIFLERY
• Another silver: St. Louis School senior Ryan Tanoue, 18, won his second silver medal yesterday on the final day of the National Junior Olympics Men's Riflery Championships.
Tanoue, of Kaimuki, placed second in the men's small bore (.22 caliber) shooting at the Olympic Training Center at Colorado Springs, Colo. On Saturday, he finished second in air-rifle shooting.
In both events, the only sharper shooter was NCAA champion Matthew Emmons of Brown Mills, N.J., a sophomore at the University of Alaska-Fairbanks.
Tanoue has earned a place in the national development shooting pool, which means he can be selected for U.S. teams in international competition, may receive extra coaching at the Olympic Training Center and may receive subsidies.
Tanoue scored 2,279 points in trials, in which shooters fire 80 shots over two days from prone, standing and kneeling positions at 50 targets that are 40 meters away. He scored 96.9 of 109 possible points in the eight-shooter finals on 10 shots from standing position.
His total was 2,375.9.
This was Tanoue's third trip to the Junior Olympics. Last year, he placed second in the 15-17 age group and was fifth and eighth in the overall standings, earning a place on the Junior Olympics all-star team.
Tanoue won the Interscholastic League of Honolulu small-bore championship the last three years and was the state high-school air rifle champion last fall.
