Isle File
UH golfers tie for sixth in WAC
Advertiser Staff
The University of Hawai'i men's golf team finished tied for sixth in the nine-team Western Athletic Conference Championships completed yesterday at Broken Arrow, Okla.
Winds gusting to 30 mph pushed scores higher, and the Warriors' final-round 316 was their highest of the three-day tournament at Forest Ridge Golf Club. They finished at 924, tying Fresno State.
Texas Christian shot 896 to win the championship by a stroke over host Tulsa. Southern Methodist (905) was third.
Tulsa's David Inglis shot a final-round, 1-over 73 to take medallist honors with even-par 216. TCU's Scott Volpitto (75—218) was second and teammate Aaron Hickman (73—222) third.
Scott Carlyle led Hawai'i with 77—230, finishing in a tie for 19th. Other UH participants were Russell Nygard (78—232, tied for 21st), Matt Kodama (83—234, tied for 28th), and Justin Kim (81—236) and Norman-Ganin Asao (80—236), who tied for 31st.
BASKETBALL
Gabrielova honored: University of Hawai'i point guard Janka Gabrielova joined players from Women's National Invitation Tournament champion Ohio State and runner-up New Mexico on the WNIT all-tournament team.
Gabrielova, named the Wahine's Most Outstanding Defensive Player at the end of the season, averaged 13 points, 4 rebounds and 4 assists in four WNIT games. She helped Hawai'i reach its first final four, where it lost to New Mexico.
"She played really well in the WNIT," UH coach Vince Goo said of Gabrielova. "She didn't do anything differently than what she did throughout the year, but she was consistent the whole tournament. She had her best games. She's really getting to understand the system."
The Lobos lost the WNIT championship game to Ohio State, 62-61, before 18,018 at The Pit. Jamie Lewis, the Buckeyes' senior point guard was the WNIT's MVP. Teammate Courtney Coleman was also on the all-tournament team, along with New Mexico's Chelsea Grear and Jordan Adams, and James Madison's Shanna Price.
Goo, his staff and current and former players will conduct two camps next month. The first, June 15-17, is for girls and boys, ages 5-13. The second, June 22-24, is for girls ages 14-18.
Both sessions will be at the Stan Sheriff Center and campus gyms. Each camp has a $75 fee, which includes personalized instruction, station work, a 5-on-5 tournament, NCAA information and other techniques and strategies.
Deadline for applications is June 7. For more information, call 956-2710 or 956-4507.
BASEBALL
Vulcans buried: San Jose State scored 14 runs in the final three innings to drop Hawai'i-Hilo, 17-2, in a Western Athletic Conference game yesterday at San Jose, Calif.
The game ended after seven innings by mutual agreement of the coaches.
The Spartans (26-20-1, 13-13 WAC) handed the Vulcans (5-35, 3-23) their 10th consecutive loss.
The Vulcans were the home team because it was the first of two make-up games that were rained out at Hilo last month. The Vulcans will be home team again today. When the rest of the series resumes tomorrow and Saturday (doubleheader), the Spartans will be home.
The Spartans led 3-2 after four innings before scoring five runs in the fifth and nine in the seventh.
Winning pitcher Tim Adinolfi (6-5) struck out 10, while allowing four hits and two walks in seven innings.
Robert Shimabuku (1-10) allowed eight runs in 4‡ innings for the Vulcans.
Nalei Sooto hit a two-run home run for the Vulcans.
AWARDS
April Athletes: Sacred Hearts long jumper Kelly Figueira and University of Hawai'i volleyball player Costas Theocharidis are the Quarterback Club's Sportspersons of the Month for April.
At Saturday's Punahou Relays, Figueira jumped 19 feet, 3´ inches. It is thought to be the longest jump by a Hawai'i high school girl, and is 10th best in the United States this year. The jump was more than a foot longer than Figueira's personal best and broke the meet record by 16 inches.
In the final full week of April, Theocharidis was named the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation Player of the Year, and lifted the Warriors to second place in the conference tournament. Yesterday, he was named national Player of the Year.
Both athletes will be honored at Monday's weekly luncheon meeting at The Pagoda Hotel.
SOFTBALL
Awards banquet: The University of Hawai'i softball awards banquet will be held Sunday, from 5 to 8 p.m. at All-Star Hawai'i.
Cost is $20 per person. Parking is free, according to a UH press release.
Those planning to attend should call the Wahine softball office at 956-4506.
