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Komine strikes out 14 for 15th win in a row
Advertiser Staff
All-America pitcher Shane Komine struck out 14 and allowed three hits in eight innings to help No. 11 Nebraska over No. 13 Texas A & M, 6-4, yesterday in Big 12 baseball at Lincoln, Neb.
Komine (4-0), a 1998 graduate of Kalani High, won his 15th consecutive decision dating to March of last season. The only run the right-hander allowed was unearned. He got into a bases-loaded jam in the sixth, but ended the threat by picking a runner off second.
The 14 strikeouts tied his season-high he had last month against McNeese State. It was his 20th 10-or-more strikeout performance in the senior's career at NU (9-5, 2-2 Big 12).
GYMNASTICS
State finals: Nearly 100 of Hawai'i's best gymnasts will compete today and tomorrow in the state Junior Olympic Championships at Kokokahi Gymnastics on Kamehameha Highway in Kane'ohe.
Twelve clubs from O'ahu, Maui and the Big Island will participate. In addition to state medals, the athletes can qualify for regional Junior Olympics.
Level 8 competition will be held today at 4:30 p.m. and Level 7 at 9:30 a.m. tomorrow. Level 9 and 10, the highest levels below elite, will be held at 2 p.m. tomorrow.
There are 37 entrants in Level 7, 32 in Level 8 and 26 in Levels 9 and 10, according to Suzie Gamble, Kokokahi program director. The Level 10 competitors include All-Americans Ina Higashi-Izumi, Sierra Jacobs and Erin Geary.
RIFLERY
NCAA champion: Nevada freshman Ryan Tanoue, a St. Louis School graduate, won the NCAA air-rifle championship on a tie-breaker yesterday in Murray, Ky.
Tanoue and defending champion Matt Emmons of Alaska-Fairbanks tied for first place, each scoring 329 of a possible 400 points on 40 shots. Tanoue had 29 centers to Emmons' 26 to win the tiebreaker.
Emmons won the small-bore championship for the second straight year with an NCAA record 1,190 points of a possible 1,200.
DIVING
Gowdy aims to qualify: University of Hawai'i sophomore Mike Gowdy will dive in the platform event today in hopes of earning Hawai'i's first NCAA advancement at the Zone E Diving Championships at Stanford University.
With a strong finish, Gowdy can earn a spot in the men's NCAA championships in Athens, Ga., March 28-30.
Gowdy finished fifth in yesterday's men's one-meter dive with a score of 309.55. Arizona's Omar Ojeda won the event with a 337.20. UH sophomore Jon Coyle placed 11th with a 267.70.
UH freshman Maggie Roberts was 27th in the women's three-meter, scoring 212.35 points. USC's Blythe Hartley won with 556.35.
VOLLEYBALL
Wong, Metzger to play: Punahou graduates and pro beach volleyball teammates Kevin Wong and Stein Metzger will play today and tomorrow in the first Waikiki Invitational Beach Volleyball Tournament near Kapahulu Pier.
The two-day tournament, a benefit for the Hawai'i Foodbank, will include 30 teams from Germany, Japan and United States.
Games will be played throughout the day from 9 a.m.-4 p.m.
SOFTBALL
BYU, Hilo, HPU sweep: Brigham Young defeated Chaminade 1-0 and 3-1 in a Pacific West Conference doubleheader yesterday at La'ie.
University of Hawai'i-Hilo swept Western New Mexico by identical 1-0 scores in a PacWest doubleheader at Hilo yesterday.
Hawai'i Pacific defeated Vanguard (Calif.) 3-1 and 4-2 at HPU Windward Field.
