Isle File
Isle, Mainland teams set for Best of West baseball
Advertiser Staff
Ten teams, including four from Hawai'i, will play in the 10th Best of the West Classic baseball tournament June 25-July 1 on O'ahu.
The tournament, which will be played at Ala Wai Field and Aloha Stadium, features teams with high school and college players 19 years old and younger. They will start with pool play June 25-28 and a bracket tournament on June 30 and July 1.
Hawai'i teams are West O'ahu, Hawaiian Roughriders, Hawai'i and Leeward.
Others in the tournament are Yakima, Wash., California (Orange County) Knights, Desert Mountain, Ariz., Saguaro, Ariz., Western All-Stars (Southern California) and Baseball Factory (Ellicott City, Md.).
Baseball Factory will consist of players from across the country, according to tournament organizers, Kim Short and Bill Berger.
West O'ahu, coached by Ivan Yamasaki, is the tournament's defending champion.
More than 100 former players in the tournament have been drafted or have signed professional contracts, and nearly 350 have played collegiate baseball, according to tournament organizers.
Several noted Island athletes have played in past tournaments, including Justin Wayne (Punahou, Stanford), Keoni DeRenne (Iolani, Arizona) and Dane Sardinha (Kamehameha, Pepperdine), all former college All-Americans who now play in the minor leagues), and current Nebraska All-America pitcher Shane Komine.
Jacque Jones, a starting outfielder for the Minnesota Twins, was on the first Best of the West championship team (Mission Bay, Calif.)
The Hawai'i teams will face each other at Ala Wai on June 25 at 9 a.m. (Roughriders vs. Leeward) and noon (Hawai'i vs. West O'ahu). The full field begins pool play at Ala Wai Field and Aloha Stadium on June 26.
TENNIS
• Workshops: The Hawai'i Pacific Section of the U.S. Tennis Association is offering workshops for Tournament Directors Wednesday and Tournament Referees and Umpires on June 23.
The two-hour tournament directors workshop is free and begins at 4 p.m. The cost for referees and umpires to update credentials is $5. The workshop is from 9 a.m.-3 p.m.
Both workshops are at the section office, 1500 Beretania, Suite 300. To sign up, or for more information, call Toni at 955-6696, ext. 23.
• Deadline today: The deadline for the O'ahu Public Parks Seniors is today. The tennis tournament, June 23-24 at the Diamond Head Tennis Center, is open to men and women ages 30-80 years.
The fees are $3.50 for singles and $5 per doubles teams.
For more information call Don Andrews at 971-7150.
CAMP
• Wahine basketball: The second session, June 22-24, is now open to girls ages 10-17 and boys ages 10-14. Registration forms are still being accepted.
University of Hawai'i coach Vince Goo, his staff and current and former players will conduct the camp at Stan Sheriff Center and campus gyms. Fee is $75, which includes personalized instruction, station work, a 5-on-5 tournament, NCAA information and other techniques and strategies.
For more information and to obtain applications, call 956-2710 or 956-4507.
• Wahine volleyball: The 20th annual Rainbow Wahine Volleyball Camp features four sessions for girls and boys entering grades 4-12. University of Hawai'i coach Dave Shoji, his staff and current former players will conduct the camps.
The first session will be June 18-21, with the second July 19-22, third July 30-Aug. 2 and four Aug. 4-7. All will be from 1-5 p.m. Registration fee for each camp is $130. Dormitory and meal service is available for the final camp, for $375. For more information, call 956-2496.
CAREERS
• Beyond Boundaries: Punahou graduate Sandy Vivas has founded Beyond Boundaries, Inc., which has launched Athleticlink.com for professionals in the athletic community.
Vivas recently resigned her position as executive director of the American Volleyball Coaches Association. She had been with the organization 17 years.
Her new enterprise "provides services to the athletic community and corporations seeking persons with an athletic background."
Athleticlink.com has six service areas: Employers, Job Seekers, Camps, Open Competition Dates, Consultants/speakers and Clinics/Seminars. Users can gather or post information in any area.
HONORS
• Wie, Keiter honored: Michelle Wie, an 11-year-old golfing phenom, and Marty Keiter, director of golf at Kapalua, were named the May Sportspersons of the Month.
Both will be honored at the Honolulu Quarterback Club luncheon Monday at the Pagoda International Ballroom. The meeting starts at 11:30 a.m.
Wie became the youngest golfer to win the Jennie K. Wilson tournament and later became the youngest and first female to play in the 93-year history of the Manoa Cup.
Keiter helped save the state golf championship tournament by closing the Village course so that 120 Hawai'i high school boys could play their tournament. The tournament had been threatened with cancellation because of the teachers' strike.
College-Bound
• St. Francis' Nahale: St. Francis volleyball standout Deeann Nahale has signed with Concordia University in Irvine, Calif.
Nahale, a defensive specialist, was team captain during her senior season.
• Kamehameha's Lee: Chad Lee, a 5-foot-7 180-pound wide receiver, has signed an NAIA national letter of intent to play football at William Penn University in Iowa this fall.
Lee is a 2001 Kamehameha graduate.
