Isle File
Big Man Camp coming to Kamehameha
Advertiser Staff
The annual Pete Newell Big Man Camp is scheduled for Aug. 13-17 at The Kamehameha Schools' Kekuhaupi'o Gym.
The camp has two sessions: professional players from 8:30 a.m. to 11:30, and college players from 1 p.m. to 4.
Among the NBA players expected to participate are Golden State's Antawn Jamison, San Antonio's Malik Rose and Cleveland's Chris Mihm.
For more details and application information, call Merv Lopes at 883-9854.
YOUTH BASKETBALL
• Kalakaua wins: Ginger Gravelle scored 15 points, including two victory-clinching free throws with 10 seconds to play, as the Kalakaua Foundation 14-under girls team defeated the SF Saffire Rebels of Oakland, Calif., 50-46, yesterday to win the Las Vegas Summer Classic.
Gravelle, who will be a sophomore at Iolani, and Shanna Dacanay, who will be a freshman at Punahou, were named co-Most Valuable Players of the classic. Dacanay scored 12 points yesterday and Ki'I LaVine of Punahou added 11.
Gravelle and Punahou's Elyse Umeda were named to the all-tournament team at the End of the Oregon Trail Tournament in Oregon City last month.
YOUTH BASEBALL
• Canefires win: The Hawai'i Canefires defeated El Segundo, Calif., 2-0, yesterday in the Babe Ruth Regional Tournament (ages 15-under) at El Segundo.
Kaimi Mead pitched a two-hitter with six strikeouts.
• Warriors lose: The Hawai'i Warriors lost to Glenn Allen, Va., 2-1, yesterday in their first game at the Babe Ruth/Cal Ripken World Series (ages 9-10) at Vincennes, Ind.
Virginia scored the game-winner in the bottom of the sixth on a wild pitch.
YOUTH SOFTBALL
• Na Kolohe splits: Na Kolohe split a pair of games Friday — defeating Texas in their second game of the day (no score available) after losing to Montana, 11-10, in 11 innings — at the Amateur Softball Association's Western National Tournament (ages 18-under) in Seattle.
Crissy Moefu, who earned the win against the Tigers, also batted 4-for-4.
• Pearls prevail: Charity Senas drove in Shelly Joslin for the only run of the game as the Pearl City Pearls defeated the Yuma Desert Heat, 1-0, in the Babe Ruth Pacific Southwest Region Tournament (ages 16-under) yesterday at Calexico, Calif.
Leo Sing Chow pitched a four-hitter.
QUARTERBACK CLUB
• Sportspersons for July: Kehau Kali, head coach of the Outrigger Canoe Club, and Travis Lee, former St. Louis School wrestler, have been named Female and Male Sportspersons of the Month for July by the Honolulu Quarterback Club.
Kali guided her club to the O'ahu Hawaiian Canoe Racing Association championship two weeks ago.
Lee, a three-time state champion in high school, won two national titles last week.
Lee is scheduled to appear at the club's weekly meeting tomorrow at the Pagoda International Ballroom.
Also scheduled to appear are masters swim champion Betty Ann Bandett Sallee, national champion diving team representative Sonny Tanabe of the Hawai'i Free Divers and newly appointed Star Bulletin sports editor Paul Arnett.
Lunch starts at 11:30 a.m., with the program to follow at noon.
BEACH VOLLEYBALL
• Ninth-place finish: Stein Metzger and Kevin Wong of Hawaii finished ninth yesterday at the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Championship tournament in Austria.
Dax Holdren and Todd Rogers, seeded No. 23, upset the fifth-seeded team of Metzger and Wong, 14-21, 21-13, 17-15.
Metzger and Wong, both Punahou School graduates, shared $7,500.
BODYBOARDING
• Baltazar fifth: Chasity Baltazar of Wai'anae finished tied for fifth in the second event of the Ladies World Championship Bodyboarding Tour yesterday in 3-foot surf at Huntington Beach, Calif.
Daniela Freitas-Ronquilo of Brazil won the event.
SWIMMING
• Western meet on Maui: More than 800 swimmers will compete in the 2001 Western Zone Swimming Championships, which will be held Tuesday through Saturday at the Kihei Acquatic Center on Maui.
Competition, over 50 meters, is for swimmers 19 years and under.
Besides 17 Hawai'i swimming groups, athletes will come from Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah and Wyoming.
