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Kane'ohe's Tom sets world mark in bench press

Advertiser Staff

Kane'ohe's Taylor Tom, 25, set a world record in the 148-pound junior men's division with a bench press of 402 pounds, breaking his previous mark of 381.2, according to the World Association of Bench Pressers and Dead Lifters.

The second-year optometry student at California-Berkeley set the previous record Feb. 23 at the California State Bench Press and Dead Lift Championships in Monterey, Calif. The junior men's division is for competitors ages 20-25.

Tom, who is 5 feet 6 and 148 pounds, is a 1994 graduate of Punahou School, where he was a state tennis doubles champion. He lettered in tennis for three years at the University of Washington.

SOFTBALL

• Hilo splits doubleheader: Taysha Anderson spaced 10 hits and Hawai'i-Hilo rallied for a 5-4 victory over Vanguard University in the first game of a softball doubleheader at the UHH softball field.

The visitors from Costa Mesa, Calif. won the second game, 3-2.

Trailing 3-1, Hawai'i-Hilo scored two runs in the fifth to tie it and two in the sixth on RBI singles by Diana Kim and Trisha Holley for a 5-3 lead.

Anderson struck out four and did not walk a batter.

Holley and Wendy Layton had two hits apiece for Hawai'i-Hilo (17-4).

In the second game, Vanguard rallied for two runs in the seventh — on a bases-loaded single and a sacrifice fly — to win it and improve to 23-10-1.