Posted on: Thursday, May 17, 2001

Isle File
BYU's Obrey, Jackson all-league in baseball

Advertiser Staff

Brigham Young University sophomores Kainoa Obrey and Doug Jackson of Hawai'i Tuesday were named to the first All-Mountain West Conference baseball team.

Obrey, a third baseman, was batting .381 and Jackson, an outfielder, was hitting .380 following a 7-1 victory over Air Force yesterday in the opening round of the conference tournament at San Diego.

They were both all-state players for Iolani in 1998 and '99.

Obrey, with 76 hits in 200 at-bats, had 50 RBIs in 53 games, 18 doubles, 12 home runs and a .650 slugging average.

Jackson was 67-for-176 and is among NCAA-I national leaders in triples with seven. He had a .977 fielding average in center field.

BYU, the regular-season conference winner, was 35-19 after yesterday.

TRACK AND FIELD

• UH's Kaffka 4th in heptathlon: University of Hawai'i sophomore Nicole Kaffka is fourth in the heptathlon after the first day of the Western Athletic Conference Outdoor Championships at Fresno, Calif.

Kaffka, from West Vancouver, Canada, finished fourth in the high jump (5 feet, 1 1/4 inches) and 200 meters (26.63), was fifth in the shot put (30 feet, 1/4 inch) and sixth in the 100-meter hurdles (15.88).

Her hurdle time was a personal best — and first sub-16-second time — and her three other results were all seasonal bests.

Kaffka will establish a school record in the event, which was not held 15 years ago when UH last had a program.

Kaffka accumulated 2,635 points yesterday. Rice's Keitha Mosely leads with 3,331.

The heptathlon concludes today with the long jump, javelin and 800 meters. The rest of the Wahine compete tomorrow and Saturday.

GOLF

• Soranaka's in: Honolulu's Sally Soranaka qualified for the U.S. Amateur Public Links Championship last weekend in Houston.

Soranaka shot 34-39-73 at the Old Orchard course. She advances to the national championship next month in Illinois.