Posted on: Saturday, September 27, 2003

ISLE FILE
HPU sweeps Montana State-Billings

Advertiser Staff

Flavia Brakling had a match-high 15 kills and Nadica Karleusa added 13 to lead the No. 14 Hawai'i Pacific women's volleyball team to a 30-28, 30-24, 30-20 sweep of Montana State Billings yesterday in Billings, Mont., in a non-conference match.

Olivia Munro had a team-high 12 kills for Billings, which dropped to 3-10. HPU improved to 9-2.

• Boxing: Dat Nguyen, of Wailuku, Maui, reached the quarterfinals of the 2003 PAL National Boxing Championships in Toledo, Ohio, before losing Thursday.

Nguyen lost to Cortez Bey of Cleveland by decision (42-25) in the 125-pound division.

Michigan's Tim Skolnik stopped Honolulu's Keena Pahio in the second round in the preliminaries of the 201-pound division.

• Surfing: The Macy's E-Series surfing tour will begin its second season this weekend with a contest today and tomorrow at the Ala Moana Bowl.

This season's E-Series will consist of five contests.

• Water polo: No. 18 Brigham Young-Hawai'i ended a three-match losing streak, beating MIT, 18-5, last night at the UC-Santa Cruz Slugfest in Santa Cruz, Calif.

Earlier in the day, Santa Clara upset BYUH, 9-3.

The Seasiders (3-3) will play two more matches today.

• Football: Nuggets sign ex-BYUH player

DENVER — Japanese guard Yuta Tabuse signed with the Denver Nuggets yesterday.

The 5-foot-9 Tabuse, from Yokohama, played for BYU-Hawai'i from 2000-2002 before joining the Toyota Alvark of the Japan Basketball League. An NBA Japan spokesperson said Tabuse would be the first Japanese player in an NBA training camp.

BYU-Hawai'i said Tabuse is the first former Seasider to sign an NBA contract.

"He's a great young man, and it's nice to see him do well," BYU-Hawai'i head coach Ken Wagner said.

— Associated Press