Posted on: Thursday, June 5, 2003
ISLE FILE
Defending champ out of Manoa Cup
Advertiser Staff
Moanalua High School senior Ryan Perez ousted defending champion Travis Toyama, 2 and 1, yesterday in the third round of the Manoa Cup at Oahu Country Club.
The 18-hole quarterfinals of the state amateur match-play championship begin this morning at 7. Tomorrow's semifinals and Saturday's final are 36 holes.
Toyama, a University High senior, was the final former champion in the field. He got through two rounds but could not stop Perez, who won his first two matches 1-up.
Perez will play Damien junior Kurt Nino today. Nino, who lost to Toyama in last year's semifinals, beat state high school champion Troy Higashiyama, 4 and 3.
Kristofer Baptist, Brandon Abreu, Casey Watabu, Burt Bonk, Kellan Anderson and Kellen-Floyd Asao are the other quarterfinalists. Asao reached the Manoa Cup final two years ago, falling to Ryan Koshi.
Abreu won 2 and 1 over University of Hawai'i-Hilo's Hee Beom Kim, a semifinalist a year ago. Bonk had to go 19 holes to beat Dylan Nakano. The other matches ended before the 17th hole.
SAILING
• UH women sailors finish 6th at nationals: In 5- to 8-knot winds, fog and rain, the fourth-ranked University of Hawai'i women's sailing team finished sixth at the Inter-Collegiate Sailing Association 2003 Spring Championships yesterday at Grosse Pointe Shores, Mich.
Tufts won the title with a low-best score of 160 points, followed by St. Mary's of Maryland (173), Old Dominion (194), Dartmouth (195), Yale (230) and UH (245).
In sailing, teams are awarded one point for a first-place finish, two points for second, etc.
"With the conditions that we had to deal with, I think we performed well and learned a lot that will help us for the team races starting tomorrow," said UH head coach Andy Johnson.
The Rainbow Wahine's A division team of skipper Jennifer Warnock and Sarah Reed finished the last four races in second, ninth, fourth and eighth. The B division team of skipper Renee DeCurtis and Sarah Hitchcock finished fifth, ninth, fourth, second, sixth and 14th in yesterday's races.
The Rainbow Wahine entered the final day of the three-day, 18-race event in seventh place.
This was the third straight year that the Rainbow Wahine finished in the top 10. UH won the title two years ago.
"I think we can hold our heads up high for the way the women performed over the past four days," Johnson said.
VOLLEYBALL
• U.S. spikes Cuba: Logan Tom scored a match-high 20 points as the USA women's national team opened the 2003 season with a four-game victory over three-time defending Olympic gold medalist Cuba Tuesday at the Montreux Volley Masters in Switzerland. The United States was off yesterday and will resume play in the eight-team tournament today against the Dominican Republic. Team USA, ranked third in the world, wraps up pool play tomorrow with a showdown against second-ranked China (1-0).
Tom, a two-time NCAA Player of the Year for Stanford, blasted 15 kills to go with three blocks, two aces and eight digs in the 21-25, 25-21, 25-21, 25-22 win over Cuba, the world's fourth-ranked team.
Former University of Hawai'i All-American Heather Bown is a middle blocker for the U.S. Punahou graduate Lindsey Berg is sharing the setting duties.
The top two teams in each pool advance to the semifinals Saturday, with the final Sunday.
JUDO
• Takata at PanAms: Taylor Takata of Wahiawa will try for his third straight Pan American Judo Union championship as a member of the U.S. team today through Saturday in Salvador City, Brazil. Takata, an Iolani School grad, competes at 60kg (132.3 pounds). He has been a resident at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs since May 2001.
U.S. athletes who finish in the top five at the Pan Am Judo Union championships will earn national ranking points, critical to funding allocations and international team selections in the coming year, including the 2004 Olympic Games.
Takata tuned up for the Pan Ams by winning three bronze medals in major tournaments late last month in Puerto Rico and Mexico City.
