Posted on: Friday, November 7, 2003

ISLE FILE
AFL team signs Islanders fullback

Advertiser Staff

Josh White, who played for the Hawaiian Islanders of arenafootball2 last season, has signed a three-year contract with the New York Dragons, an Arena Football League team.

"They said they needed to upgrade that (fullback/linebacker) position and they gave me the chance," said White, a former Farrington High and University of California running back. "I'm ready to show them what I'm made of."

White, who weighs 265 pounds, scored 14 touchdowns for the Islanders last season. He tied a league record by rushing for five touchdowns against Bakersfield in May.

White becomes the second former Islanders player to jump from af2 to the AFL. Offensive/defensive lineman Olen Rosehill played for the Arizona Rattlers in 2003.

SURFING

• Four in World Longboard:Four Hawai'i surfers are scheduled to participate in the prestigious Oxbow World Longboard Championships this week at Manu Bay, Raglan, New Zealand.

Bonga Perkins, Kekoa Uemura, Keegan Edwards and Duane DeSoto are among the 48 competitors who qualified for the event.

The contest is the final — and most valued — stop on the 2003 World Longboard Tour.

Perkins is the only Hawai'i competitor in contention for the 2003 tour championship. He won the world championship in 1996.

Through the first four events of the tour, Perkins is ranked No. 2 with 1,208 points. California's Taylor Jensen is No. 1 with 1,310.

On the longboard tour, all competitors must ride surfboards at least nine feet long.

GOLF

• Mullen tied for 6th: Mililani's Jerry Mullen fired a 3-under-par 69 yesterday and is tied for sixth after the first round of the TaylorMade-adidas PGA Assistant Professional Championship in Port St. Lucie, Fla.

The $65,000 tournament is being played at PGA Golf Club's Dye Course. The 45-man field is made up of the assistant champion from each PGA Section, defending champion and a representative from the Australian PGA, PGA of Great Britain and Canadian PGA.

Loren Personett and Robert Gaus share the lead after shooting course-record 64s.