Isle File
Big Island will host WTA event
Advertiser Staff
Justine Henin, Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario and Sandrine Testud — all Top 20 players on the Sanex WTA Tour — will be on the Big Island this weekend to prepare for the inaugural Big Island Championships.
Qualifying rounds are today and tomorrow at Hilton Waikoloa Village. The 32-player main draw begins Monday. Matches start at 10 a.m. each day, with the exception of the semifinals (Sept. 15) and finals (Sept. 16), tentatively scheduled for noon.
Henin reached the semifinals of this year's French Open. At Wimbledon, she upset Jennifer Capriati to reach the final, where she lost in three sets to Venus Williams. She is currently ranked sixth in the world.
Sanchez is 17th — she has been ranked in the Top 20 every year since 1988 — and Testud 18th. Other players in the Top 50 include Amy Frazier, Lisa Raymond, Marlene Weingartner, Lilia Osterloh and Meilen Tu.
The tournament has a $140,000 purse.
Waikoloa's Kohala Tennis Garden has a stadium court with seating for 500-plus. Admission is $10 daily for the first round (Monday-Tuesday), $15 second round (Wednesday-Thursday), $20 quarterfinals (Friday) and $25 for semifinals (Saturday) or finals (Sunday).
Tickets are available at the gate, or through TicketPlus (808-526-4400). Discounts are available for U.S. Tennis Association members.
SOCCER
• Wahine win on road: Junior midfielder Tiffany Makue scored the game-winning goal in overtime as Hawai'i defeated Idaho, 2-1, yesterday at Moscow, Idaho.
The Wahine's first goal came at 39:22, when senior striker Jennifer Starsiak, from the top of the box, ripped at shot past Vandals' goalie Tricia Haynes.
Megan Cummings scored for Idaho at 76:42.
UH improved to 2-0, while the Vandals fell to 1-2-1.
GOLF
• Match on Maui: Brian Sasada will defend the Aloha Section PGA Match Play Championship on his home course when Hawai'i's second-oldest tournament begins tomorrow at Makena.
Qualifying starts at noon, with the seniors playing for eight spots and the championship division competing to get into a 32-player field. As defending champion, Sasada is the No. 1 seed when match play starts Monday.
Others in the field include Beau Yokomoto (Peary CC), Doug Bohn (Kapalua Bay), Kevin Carll (Aloha Academy of Golf), Rick Castillo (Wailea) and Ron Castillo Jr. (Hapuna), Kevin Hayashi (Hilo Muni), Brendan Moynahan (Koele), two-time champion Tommy Hines (unattached), and Makena's Dugal Milne, Kirk Nelson, Michael Rich and Mark Seki.
The first two rounds will be played Monday, with quarterfinals and semifinals Tuesday, and the 36-hole final Wednesday. Play begins at 7 each morning.
Seniors' quarterfinals start at 6:30 a.m. Monday, followed by the semifinals at 11:30 a.m. The 36-hole final begins at 7 a.m. Tuesday.
ALUMNI REPORT
• Whitworth football: Three players from Hawai 'i will start and six others are on the roster for Whitworth (Wash.) College as it opens its football season today at Chapman, Calif.
Senior defensive end Shane Lyman, a Kamehameha graduate from Kalihi, was second-team All-Northwest Conference last season. Senior Kawika Johnson of Pearl City (Damien) starts at offensive guard and junior Paul Alejo of 'Ewa Beach (Damien) is the punter and place kicker.
Listed No. 2 on the depth chart are freshman fullback Kaleo Segovia of Kane'ohe (Castle), freshman linebacker Kiley Loo of Waimea, Big Island (Kamehameha), and junior offensive guard Walter Young of Wai'anae.
Junior defensive lineman Darrell Quarles of Makakilo (Damien), freshman defensive back Tamotsu Iwaishi of 'Aiea (Kamehameha) and freshman defensive lineman Isaac Miller of Kalaheo, Kaua'i (Kamehameha) also are on the roster.
Whitworth, in Spokane, Wash., is a member of NCAA Division III.
BEACH VOLLEYBALL
• Metzger, Wong win matches: Stein Metzger and Scott Wong, competing on different teams, won their matches yesterday at the Paul Mitchell King & Queen of the Beach Tournament in Las Vegas.
The tournament is the last stop on the AVP Pro Beach Volleyball Tour. The special tournament, with players switching partners for each match, will conclude tomorrow.
Metzger (Honolulu) and Todd Rogers (Santa Barbara, Calif.) defeated Brent Doble (St. Paul, Minn.) and Canyon Ceman (Manhattan Beach, Calif.), 21-15, 17-21, 15-12.
Wong (Pearl City) and Dax Holdren (Santa Barbara) defeated Lee LeGrande (Honolulu) and Mike Whitmarsh (San Diego), 22-20, 21-17.
