Stanford's Seki leading Pac-10 golf

By Dennis Anderson
Advertiser Staff Writer

Stanford senior Jim Seki is tied for first place at 3-under-par 213 entering today's final round of the Pac-10 golf championships.

He shot even-par 72 yesterday to go with 70 and 71 in Monday's two rounds at Oakmont Country Club in Glendale, Calif.

Seki is tied with UCLA's John Merrick. Oregon State's Cameron Mackenzie — the first-day leader — is one stroke back.

Live scores of today's final round will be available at www.golfstat.com.

Elsewhere:

• San Diego State junior Shayna Miyajima (Baldwin '00) placed ninth in the rain-dogged Mountain West Conference Championship in Bend, Ore. After an opening 79 in a downpour on a substitute course she had never seen, Miyajima rebounded for 73-76 and 9-over-par 228 to lead the Aztecs. She placed fourth last year.

• Nebraska sophomore Merynn Ito ('Aiea '01) tied for 11th in the Big 12 Conference Championship at wet and windy Columbia, Mo. Ito's 79-77-74 — 230 was 14 over par and second best for the Huskers.

WATER POLO

• Santa Clara (Calif.)

Senior Becky Hong (Iolani '99 of Wai'alae Nui) was selected second-team All-Western Women's Water Polo Association.

Hong started all 38 games and was second on her team in goals scored with 53. She had 14 multi-goal games, including a six-goal performance against Villanova on March 2 in a 13-8 Santa Clara victory.

Santa Clara finished 18-20 but defeated 12 nationally ranked teams.

Hong received second-team All-Tournament honors at the WWWPAs last season, and as a freshman, was named honorable mention at the Division III level.

• Mountain Pacific Sports Federation

UCLA senior Maureen Flanagan (Punahou '99 of Hawai'i Kai) and Hawai'i senior Karin Van Hoff were named third-team All-MPSF yesterday.

Flanagan has 21 goals and 21 assists for the Bruins, who lost the MPSF championship to Stanford Sunday, 3-2 in eight overtimes, including five sudden-victory death periods.

UCLA coach Adam Krikorian considers Flanagan "one of the best perimeter defenders in collegiate history," which apparently was lost on the other MPSF coaches voting for all-stars.

UCLA will play Loyola Marymount on May 10 in the opening round of the NCAA Championships at UC-San Diego. Stanford meets Indiana in the other first-round game and the winners meet for the title May 11.

SOFTBALL

• St. Andrews Presbyterian (N.C.)

Junior pitcher/first baseman Tina Gonsalves (Sacred Hearts '00 of Kailua) was chosen to the all-tournament team at the Carolinas-Virginia Conference Championship Tournament Sunday.

Gonsalves pitched 35¡ of St. Andrews' 40¡ tournament innings, compiled a 0.60 earned-run average with three wins and a 14-inning, 3-2 defeat.

Playing first base when she wasn't pitching, Gonsalves batted .316 with a .579 slugging percentage and four RBIs.

• U. of Pacific (Calif.)

In a six-game surge from April 18-26, senior center fielder Estee Okumura (Punahou '99 of Kapahulu) got 11 hits in 17 at bats, including three home runs, 12 RBIs and nine runs scored. Okumura, always a strong late-season hitter, raised her batting average from .207 to .257.

The last hit of her surge was a grand slam that beat Long Beach State, 7-3, Saturday.

She nearly hit for the cycle on April 18, going 3-for-3 with a single, double, home run and two RBIs.

BASKETBALL

• Cal State-Los Angeles

More honors for and a rumor buried by sophomore point guard Monica Tokoro (Iolani '01 of 'Aiea):

She was one of more than 500 student-athletes of color nationwide to be named to the Arthur Ashe Jr. Sports Scholars Teams. Tokoro got straight A's last quarter (4.0) and her cumulative GPA is 3.81.

She received honorable mention on the Kodak All-America team and was a first-team Kodak/Women's Basketball Coaches Association All-Region selection.

She was chosen on the Verizon Academic All-District team.

Tokoro was the second-leading scorer in NCAA Division II with 25.1 points per game and ranked ninth in the NCAA in assists with 6.5 per game.

And perhaps best of all, coach Marcia Murota signed two 6-foot-1 posts so the 5-foot-3 Tokoro will get some inside help next season and won't have to be a one-woman offense.

Tokoro has the top three single-game scoring totals in Cal State-L.A. history, including a school and California Collegiate Conference record 49 against Cal State-Stanislaus on March 1.

Tokoro last night said the recurring rumor that she is trying to transfer to a Division I team is not true. "I'm not doing anything like that," she said. Under NCAA rules, she would have to initiate contact to begin a transfer.

WRESTLING

Final women's rankings:

Pacific senior Jill Remiticado (Iolani '99) is second at 112 pounds and seven wrestlers from Hawai'i are among the top five in their weight classes in USA Wrestling's final college women's rankings of the season.

The rankings published last week by TheMat.com include:

48 kg (105.5 lbs.) — No. 5, freshman Kristen Fujioka (Castle '01) of Pacific (Ore.)

51 kg (112 lbs.) — No. 2, senior Jill Remiticado (Iolani '99) of Pacific. No. 5, sophomore Tanya Miyasaki (Castle '01) of Menlo, Calif.

55 kg (121 lbs.) — No. 5, UH sophomore Cathy Migita (Castle '01) of Rainbow Wahine Club.

63 kg (138.5 lbs.) — No. 5, freshman Jennifer Miyahara (Mid-Pacific/Pac-Five '02) of Pacific (Ore.).

72 kg (158.5 lbs.) — No. 2, Stephany Lee (Moanalua '02) of Rainbow Wahine. No. 3, senior Donell Bradley (Radford '99) of Missouri Valley.

Pacific's team was ranked No. 4 and Menlo No. 6. The Rainbow Wahine club team was No. 7; UH does not have a varsity team.

SOCCER

• Bethel (Indiana)

Coach Pete Morey says: "I am so impressed with the level of soccer in Hawai'i. I'll take as many Hawai'i girls as I can get."

And he means it.

Bethel started three Hawai'i players last season and has signed two more.

Twins Maile and Malia Carenio of Volcano (Waiakea '01) started at left outside back and right outside back, respectively, after Malia transferred from Abilene Christian.

When Bethel was smitten with injuries, including a left ankle injury that morphed into tendinitis and benched Malia Carenio, "we had to bring people out of the dorms to play," Morey said.

One of those was basketball point guard Mayumi Stevens (Moanalua '00), who played outside midfield. "I'm asking her to play again as a senior," Morey said. "She's really into basketball, but I'm trying not to take no as an answer."

He has signed Kealakehe's high-scoring Lisa Franke, second-team all-state, four-time first-team All-Big Island and two-time league or division Player of the Year, and Katie Jenkins, a prominent club player who was home-schooled on Kaua'i.

Morey said he "almost got" Big Island South Player of the Year JoBette Nabarro, who signed this month with Division I San Diego State.