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4 Hawai'i swimmers, diver win at Michigan
Advertiser Staff
The University of Hawai'i men's swimming and diving team won five events at the National Independent Conference Championships at Oakland University Aquatics Complex in Rochester, Mich., yesterday.
The Rainbows remained in second place with 455 points after the third day of the four-day meet. Southern Methodist was first with 534.
UH winners were:
- Freshman Andrew Affleck, 400-yard individual medley, in 3 minutes, 54.57 seconds.
- Junior Kurt Boehm, 100 butterfly, 48.48 seconds.
- Freshman Peter Thew, 200 freestyle, 1:36.80 (pool and school record).
- Junior Cheyne Bloch, 100 breaststroke, 54.13 (meet and pool record).
- Junior Mike Gowdy, 1-meter dive, 353.45 points.
- UH women fourth: Sophomore YingJuan Zhen got the Rainbow Wahine's first gold when she won the 100-yard backstroke at yesterday's Western Athletic Conference championships at San Antonio, Texas.
Southern Methodist led with 694.5 points after the third day. Hawai'i had 323 points entering tomorrow's final day.
Zhen, a junior, finished the 100 backstroke in and NCAA automatic qualifying time of 54.96 seconds.
UH's Yan Chen, a sophomore, finished second in the 400-yard individual medley in 4:15.01, behind SMU's Alenka Kejzar's 4:08.75. It was Chen's second NCAA automatic qualifying time.
Chen finished second in the 200-yard individual medley Thursday in 1:59.79, an NCAA automatic qualifying time. Kejzar was first in 1:57.23.
ULTIMATE FIGHTING
Draw for Penn: Hilo's B.J. Penn fought to a five-round draw with Caol Uno of Japan at Ultimate Fighting Championship 41 Onslaught at Atlantic City, N.J. last night.
CORRECTION
Vitatoe's large leap: Marv Vitatoe, who transferred to the University of Hawai'i from UCLA to play basketball, broke George Uyeda's Hawai'i long jump record at the 1973 Rainbow Relays. An earlier story on the UH Sports Circle of Honor contained incorrect information supplied by the school.
Vitatoe jumped 25-fl to break Uyeda's mark of 25-Ñ set in 1947. Vitatoe also set a UH triple jump record that day, at 48-5ý. The 6-foot-3 guard from Oakland played on the 1972-73 basketball team, but lost most of his senior season (1973-74) to academic difficulties.
