Isle File
'Aiea advances to U.S. title game at World Series
Advertiser Staff
'Aiea scored three runs in the top of the first inning and held on for a 4-1 victory over Fort Wayne, Ind., yesterday to reach today's United States pool final of the Junior League World Series (13-14 year olds) at Heritage Park in Taylor, Mich.
'Aiea (2-1), the defending World Series champion, plays Lake Charles, La. (2-1), which beat 'Aiea 7-3 on the tournament's opening day. Lake Charles defeated Bronx, N.Y., 5-2, yesterday.
The winner advances to tomorrow's World Series title game against the winner of the International final between Surrey, British Columbia (2-1) and San Francisco, Zulia, Venezuela (3-0).
'Aiea got its three first-inning runs yesterday on a wild pitch that scored leadoff batter Kyson Morikuni, a single by Kepa Wong that scored Ian Mopas and a Blaze Moleta double that scored Wong.
In the third inning, Wong reached first on a throwing error by the Fort Wayne shortstop, and later scored on a sacrifice fly by Shawn Ha'o.
'Aiea's Christian Johnson pitched 3á innings, allowing a run and six hits. He struck out none and walking four. Kyle Sakamoto pitched no-hit ball in relief.
MORE BASEBALL
• Windward loses: Danville, Calif., scored 10 runs in the top of the second inning en route to a 22-4 victory over Windward of Kailua, on the opening day of the American Legion Western Regional at Franklin Covey Stadium in Salt Lake City.
Windward continues pool play today against West Jordan, Utah.
Windward, the Hawai'i American Legion champion, was shut out until scoring four runs in the bottom of the seventh and final inning.
Danville's John Devany had four hits and four RBIs to lead a 22-hit attack.
Ikaika Lester, Kamaile Santos and Daniel Burgess each had two hits for Windward.
• Hawai'i represented: Two baseball players with ties to Hawai'i will compete in the Arizona Fall League next month, according to the league's Web site.
Former Punahou School all-state pitcher Justin Wayne and former University of Hawai'i outfielder Darren Blakely will play in the developmental league for the game's top prospects.
Wayne, the fifth overall pick of the 2000 draft by the Montreal Expos out of Stanford, started the season at single-A Jupiter (Fla.) before being promoted to double-A Harrisburg (Pa.), where he is 6-2 with a 2.55 earned run average. In 11 starts, including one complete game, he has pitched 70 innings with 56 strikeouts and 26 walks.
Blakely, a fifth-round pick by the Anaheim Angels out of UH, started the season in the New York Yankees organization, where he played at single-A Tampa (Fla.) and double-A Norwich (Conn). But he was traded to the San Diego Padres organization, where he was assigned to double-A Mobile (Ala.). He is batting .191 with four home runs in 11 games with the Southern League's BayBears.
Both players were drafted after their junior seasons at their respective schools. Blakely was traded from the Angels to the Yankees last year.
FISHING
• Closing in: Old South Marlin Club #2, of Raleigh, N.C., tagged and released three Pacific blue marlin to leap into second place at the 42nd Hawaiian International Billfish Tournament off Kailua, Kona on the Big Island.
The three marlin caught by Old South Marlin Club #2, aboard Blue Hawai'i, were worth 850 points for a three-day 1,150 total. Pajaro Valley (Calif.) Gamefish Club held on to the lead with 1,350 points after a 300-point day yesterday.
Old Marlin Club #1 was third with 1,000 points after also getting 300 points yesterday.
Fifteen fish were caught yesterday bringing the three-day total to 55 entering tomorrow's final day.
SURFING
• Keaulana ousted: Defending champion Beau Young of Australia defeated Hawai'i's Rusty Keaulana during the third round of the 10th annual Oxbow World Longboard Championships yesterday at Jeffreys Bay, South Africa.
Young defeated Keaulana, a three-time former Oxbow champion, 22.25 points to 19.7 points in waves of 3-5 feet.
In other third-round matches involving Hawai'i surfers: Jye Byrnes (Australia) defeated Kekoa Uemura (Hawai'i), 24.3-19.9; Chris Vandervoort (Hawai'i) defeated Michael Grendon (South Africa), 18.5-15.25; Bonga Perkins (Hawai'i) defeated Jeremias da Silva (Brazil), 22.25-15; Duane DeSoto (Hawai'i) defeated Paulo Kid (Brazil), 24.25-24; Dino Miranda (Hawai'i) defeated Augusto Saldanha (Brazil), 22.5-12.85; and Mathew Moir (South Africa) defeated Lance Hookano (Hawai'i), 20.45-19.
In the fourth round, Vandervoort faces Perkins and DeSoto will surf against Miranda.
VOLLEYBALL
• Overtime: Team USA, with three former University of Hawai'i Wahine starting, went 2-1 in five-game matches during the second week of the 2001 FIVB World Grand Prix.
In Taipei, the U.S. lost to Olympic gold medalist Cuba (25-17, 22-25, 21-25, 25-23, 15-11), then upset second-ranked Russia (25-10, 17-25, 25-22, 20-25, 15-13) and South Korea (28-26, 23-25, 25-19, 19-25, 15-8).
Robyn Ah Mow, the U.S. captain, started at setter in each match. Heather Bown scored 43 points — 20 against South Korea. Therese Crawford, who just joined the team, had 14 points against South Korea and eight against Russia. She started against Cuba, but was replaced in the third game and finished with one point.
At 4-2, the U.S. is tied for second going into the third week in Harbin, China. It has three more opening-round matches this weekend, against first-place China (5-1), Cuba (3-3) and Germany (1-5).
All eight teams advance to the final round, and will be seeded in two pools according to the standings after the preliminary round.g
