Coming home for hoop games
By Dennis Anderson
Advertiser Staff Writer
It will be homecoming next week for two members of the Kamehameha Schools' 2000 state championship girls' basketball team.
Junior Rae Self of Makaha starts at guard for Loyola Marymount, which is coming from Los Angeles for the Paradise Classic at the University of Hawai'i Dec. 20-21. The Lions play the Hawai'i Rainbow Wahine at 3 p.m. on Dec. 20; and either Texas Tech or Chattanooga on Dec. 21.
And junior Katannya Kapeli of Kane'ohe starts at forward for Pacific (Oregon), which will play two other small-college teams from the Midwest at neutral Klum Gym at UH on Monday and Tuesday.
Self is the designated 3-point shooter for 4-1 Loyola Marymount, with team-leading figures of 22 attempts and eight made (36.4 percent).
She also leads the Lions in assists with 15 and is second in average minutes played (31.0) and steals (4). She has averaged 8.0 points per game as the Lions have won four of their first five.
Against UH she will match up with former high school opponents Michelle Gabriel (Maryknoll), Milia Macfarlane (Punahou) and Trisha Nishimoto (Iolani).
Self started the season with a career-high 13 points against UC-Riverside on Nov. 25.
It will be Self's first appearance in Stan Sheriff Center since the 2000 state high-school championship game, when she scored 16 points — including four 3-point goals in six attempts — and led a successful second-half stall as the Warriors defeated Kalaheo and Player of the Year Brandy Richardson, 37-28.
Kapeli has averaged 8.3 points and 6.5 rebounds per game for Division III Pacific this season, with a team-season rebound high of 12.
Pacific (2-2) plays Doane of Iowa on Monday and College of Notre Dame of Maryland on Tuesday. Both games start at noon.
Pacific's men's team also comes to town next week and plays Hawai'i Pacific at Blaisdell Arena Dec. 20 at 7:30 p.m. Guard Brandon Kawazoe (Waiakea '02) is on the Pacific roster.
On Pacific's last trip to Honolulu in 1999, the Division III Boxers beat Chaminade, 65-61.
MORE BASKETBALL
• UC-Santa Barbara
Sophomore Brandy Richardson (Kalaheo '01) equaled her career high of 14 rebounds and played a career-high 35 minutes as the Gauchos (3-1) dealt Loyola-Marymount (4-1) and Rae Self their first loss of the season, 76-63, last Thursday.
Richardson has made 50 percent of her field-goal attempts (8 of 16), 86.7 percent of her free-throw attempts (6 of 7), averaged 8.2 rebounds, 3 assists and 5.8 points in four games, all starts.
SOFTBALL
• California (Berkeley)
Freshman Kaleo Eldredge (Baldwin '01) was selected to the third team of the Easton All-America team, which is picked from among teams that use Easton softball equipment exclusively.
Eldredge started every game for California in center field, was lead-off batter and scored the go-ahead run in the NCAA championship game, which Cal won. She was second-team All-Pac 10, one of two freshmen selected on the entire team.
