Isle File
St. Louis School appoints Young volleyball coach
Advertiser Staff and News Services
Dexter Young, a successful club coach and assistant at Kamehameha the past six years, has been appointed volleyball coach at St. Louis School by principal Burton Tomita.
He replaces former University of Hawai'i standout Rick Tune, who led the Crusaders to their best season and narrowly missed qualifying for the state tournament last year. Tune left to coach the junior varsity at his alma mater Punahou.
Young, 43, a 1975 Pearl City High graduate, has been a boys varsity assistant and head intermediate boys coach at Kamehameha since 1995. He also coaches the Hawaiian Warriors club team. The Warriors 17-under team finished third in this years U.S. Volleyball Association Junior Nationals in Phoenix.
Kanamu Akana, his assistant at Kamehameha and with the club team the past three years, will join him at St. Louis.
Young starts his first varsity practice Saturday with six or seven returnees, he said, including junior Max deWolff, who was chosen a Most Valuable Player at a USA Volleyball national development camp last month.
MORE PREP VOLLEYBALL
• Hawai'i All-Americans: Two players from Hawai'i are on the pre-season All-America high school girls volleyball team selected by Student Sports Magazine.
Elizabeth Narkon, a 6-foot senior middle blocker for St. Francis, and Kanoe Kamana'o, a 5-7 junior setter for Iolani, were among 50 players named by the magazine on its Web site. Players were listed alphabetically, by position, and were not ranked.
Listed as Players to Watch from Hawai'i among an additional hundred names were Puna Richardson, a 5-11 junior middle blocker for Punahou, and Mounia Nihipali, a 5-9 sophomore outside hitter for Kamehameha.
Narkon, Kamana'o and Richardson were first-team all-state players last season.
TENNIS
• No. 2 seeds advance: Chris Leong and Ryan Livesay, the lone remaining seeded team at No. 2, advanced to the semifinals of the Kailua Racquet Club Men's Night Doubles last night.
Leong and Livesay defeated Michael Bruggemann and Erich Chen, 6-2, 4-6, 6-2.
Also last night, Erik Sandblom and Daouda Senge Ndiaye beat Ikaika Jobe and Jesse Paer, 6-3, 6-4, to reach tonight's semifinal match against Leong and Livesay.
YOUTH BASEBALL
• 'Aiea reaches title game: 'Aiea defeated Idaho, 12-1, yesterday at the Little League Junior (ages 13-14) Divisional Tournament at Salem, Ore.
Blaze Moleta pitched a complete game, allowing four hits, while striking out six.
Sean Hao had three hits, Lance Powell belted a two-run homer and Kyle Sakamoto batted 2-for-2 for 'Aiea.
'Aiea (3-1) will play Montana today for the tournament title. The winner advances to the Western Regionals at Vancouver, Wash.
YOUTH SOFTBALL
• Na Kolohe falls: Minnesota defeated Na Kolohe of Hawai'i, 2-0, in the American Softball Association Western National Fast Pitch Tournament (ages 18-under) at Seattle, Wash.
Na Kolohe (1-1) plays Tuff 'N Nuff from Delano, Calif. today.
• Mililani beaten: Dynasty Gold (Calif.) defeated the Mililani No Fears, 3-2, yesterday at the American Softball Association Western National Fast Pitch Tournament (ages 10-under) at Moreno Valley, Calif.
On Tuesday, Erica Kunihisa drove in the go-ahead run in Mililani's 3-2 opening win over the Metro Phoenix Storm.
GOLF
• Dwyer defeated: Bridget Dwyer of Kailua, who will be a junior at UCLA, lost her opening match of the 101st U.S. Women's Amateur Championship yesterday at Andover, Kan.
Stacy Prammanasudh, of Tulsa, Okla. defeated Dwyer, 4 and 3, at the Flint Hills National Golf Club.
FISHING
• Catch of the day: New Zealand angler Grant Sylvester reeled in a 514-pound marlin that won the $26,000 prize money in Hooter's Second Big Game Fishing Tournament held this past weekend in waters off O'ahu.
Sylvester battled the marlin for nearly two hours to help his Team 66.
