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Hilo tops Manoa in exhibition softball

Advertiser Staff

The University of Hawai'i-Hilo softball team scored in the fourth and fifth innings to beat UH-Manoa, 2-0, in an exhibition game yesterday at the Rainbow Wahine Softball Stadium.

UH-Hilo collected five hits, while limiting UH-Manoa to one — a double in the sixth inning by April Crowell.

UH-Manoa will host the Malihini tournament Thursday through Sunday. The field includes Kent State, Loyola Marymount, Baylor, UC Riverside, Boston College and Buffalo.

GOLF

• Four-Ball tie: The team of Mark Chun and Parker McLachlin shot a final-round 7-under 63 yesterday to tie the team of Troy Higashiyama and Pomaikai Shishido for first-place honors in the HPLGA Four-Ball Tournament at Ted Makalena Golf Course.

Higashiyama and Shishido closed with a 65.

David Ishikawa and Steve Yogi shared third place with Les Tamashiro and Joe Phengsavath at 131.

MEETING

• Quarterback Club: Joe Onosai, a former NFL and University of Hawai'i football player now with Word of Life School, will speak at today's meeting of the Honolulu Quarterback Club.

Lunch begins at 11:30 a.m. at the Pagoda Hotel.

Hawai'i Pacific head coaches Russell Dung (basketball) and Howard Okita (softball) are also scheduled to speak.

TENNIS

• Arnoult, Greer picked: Hawai'i's Beth Arnoult (Kula) and John Greer (Kane'ohe) have been named to the 2003 USA Tennis High Performance Wheelchair Team.

Both went to the USOC Olympic Training Center last week to prepare for the 2003 season, which culminates with the Invacare World Team Cup, an international event. The nation's elite and emerging wheelchair tennis players face athletes from some 32 countries, June 9-15, in Sopot, Poland.

The U.S. Tennis Association was officially designated by the USOC as the national governing body for the Paralympic sport of wheelchair tennis last June.