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Miyajima out of U.S. Women's Amateur
Advertiser Staff
After winning her first two rounds of match-play, Maui's Shayna Miyajima lost to Mollie Fankhauser, a member of the U.S. Curtis Cup team, yesterday at the 102nd U.S. Women's Amateur. The score was 4 and 2.
The tournament is being played at Sleepy Hollow Country Club in Scarborough, N.Y.
Miyajima never led in the Round of 16 match, losing the first hole and falling 4-down at the turn. She won the next two holes to cut her deficit in half, but lost the 13th and 16th to close the match.
Rain rules: The third round of the Independent Insurance Agent Junior Classic (IIAJC) National Finals, presented by The Tiger Woods Foundation, was cancelled due to bad weather.
The four-day event, at Northgate Country Club in Houston, has been shortened to 54 holes and will be completed today.
Hilo's Amanda Wilson is in second place in the girls division, nine shots behind Christine Fernandez, of Henderson, Nev.
Amanda's brother Gabriel is tied for 44th in the boys field, 16 shots behind leader Kevin Silva.
WRESTLING
Spiker honored: Three-time state wrestling champion Jonathan Spiker, from Saint Louis High School, was awarded the National Wrestling Hall of Fame's Dave Schultz High School Excellence Award, for the state of Hawai'i.
The award is based upon athletic, scholastic and community achievement.
The high school senior has an undefeated record of 119-0. Spiker has won three league and state championships and took first in the 2001 Reno World of Wrestling National Championships.
Spiker is also a 20-time national gold medalist in judo and a four-time national outstanding judoka (player).
He also volunteers at Kuakini Health System and the United Church of Christ.
Raiders Roll: Iolani School's boys wrestling team won the John Smith High Sierra Wrestling Team Camp championship last week at the University of Nevada in Reno.
The Raiders had an 11-0 record in matches against teams from California, Nevada, Idaho, Oregon, Colorado, Montana and Arizona, outscoring their opponents 466-117.
2002 Hawai'i state high-school champion Brent Kakesako and state runner-up Owen Yonehara both were unbeaten in 11 matches. Iolani also got strong performances from Kyle Muraoka, Jared Wakayama and Bradley Nagasako, according to coach Yoshi Honda.
VOLLEYBALL
Fab 50: Iolani School's Jon Grobe and two players reportedly headed for the University of Hawai'i are included on Volleyball Magazine's Fab 50, its ranking of the best high school boys players in the class of 2002.
The list is included in Volleyball Magazine's September edition.
Grobe, a 6-foot-4 outside hitter, will attend Pepperdine University in California. He was first-team all-state in volleyball and a second-team Interscholastic League of Honolulu all-star on Iolani's state champion basketball team.
The magazine said that 6-foot-5 outside hitter Matt Motter of La Costa Canyon High in Encinitas, Calif., and 6-4 outside hitter Jeffrey Kim of Branham High in San Jose, had committed to Hawai'i.
In rankings by the magazine staff of the impact the players are expected to make in college volleyball during the next four years, Motter was No. 28, Grobe 35 and Kim 41.
