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Iolani's Sun wins three medals at swim meet
Advertiser Staff
Iolani Swim Club's Hongzhe Sun won two gold medals and a silver and qualified for USA Swimming's Spring National Championships in three events Saturday and yesterday at the Western Regional Northwest section meet at Federal Way, Wash.
Just two weeks after a record-setting effort in the Hawai'i high school championships, Sun beat out hundreds of entries from 10 Western states, excluding California, to win the short-course 100-yard backstroke and 200 individual medley. He finished second in the 100 butterfly.
All three of his best weekend times — 49.63 seconds in the 100 backstroke final, 48.91 in his qualifying heat for the 100 butterfly and 1:49.68 in his 200 individual medley heat — qualified for the short-course senior national championship meet in Indianapolis, April 1-5. The butterfly time is the fastest Sun has ever swum the event.
Chelsea Nagata of Maui Swim Club qualified for the Spring Nationals in the 100 butterfly Saturday with her 10th-place time of 55.99, which included a 26.08 first lap. Nagata won a silver medal for her second place in the 50 freestyle yesterday in 23.57.
Earlier in the meet, Sun took second place in the 200 freestyle in his lifetime best, but non-qualifying, time of 1:39.33.
His teammate, Mark Eckert Jr., qualified for nationals Wednesday and Thursday in the 200 backstroke and 400 individual medley. During the weekend, Eckert finished fourth, behind Sun, in the 100 backstroke and 200 individual medley, both in non-qualifying times.
BASEBALL
• HPU wins first of two: David Zamarano pitched five solid innings, and Grandon Costa and Alika Kuraoka each drove in two runs as Hawai'i Pacific beat Colorado School of Mines, 7-2, in the first game of a doubleheader yesterday at Aloha Stadium.
Zamarano gave up five hits, two runs, walked four and struck out one.
The second game didn't finish before this edition's deadline.
COLO SCHOOL OF MINES 000 101 0—2 6 2
HAWAI'I PACIFIC 220 201 X—7 13 0
Kevin Barrett and Mike Schmitz. David Zamarano, Neil Sullivan (6), Josh Ervin (6) and Shay Hirota. WP—Zamarano. LP—Barrett.
Leading Hitters: CSM—Steven Krier 3-3, 2 RBIs. HPU—Grandon Costa 3-3, 2 RBIs; Alika Kuraoka 2-4, 2 RBIs; Geoff Say 2-3, 3 runs; Ikaika DuPont 2-4; Hirota 2-3.
SOFTBALL
• HPU doubleheader postponed: The Pacific West Conference doubleheader between Hawai'i Pacific and Western New Mexico at HPU Windward field in Kane'ohe was postponed yesterday because of poor field conditions.
The games were rescheduled for today at 2 p.m.
The Sea Warriors are 16-6 overall and 5-3 in the PacWest.
GOLF
• Rainbow Wahine tourney: Third-ranked Arizona and No. 5 Southern California lead a 17-team field at the Dr. Donnis Thompson Rainbow Wahine Golf Invitational tomorrow and Tuesday at Kane'ohe Klipper Gold Course.
