Posted on: Wednesday, August 4, 2004
ISLE FILE
Kono has two-shot lead in state golf stroke play
Advertiser Staff
Stephanie Kono opened with a 2-over-par 74 in defense of her Hawai'i State Women's Golf Association Stroke Play Championship yesterday at Mid-Pacific Country Club.
The Punahou freshman played the back nine in 1-under to take a two-stroke lead over Mari Chun, Rachel Kyono and Kayla Morinaga. Ayumi Hori is three back and Stacie Nishimoto four.
Kono set a scoring record here last year, at age 13. She finished at 4-under 212 to win by a dozen shots. She is the only golfer to finish the event under par.
This event started in 1962 and is the third of the three Hawai'i women's majors.
Chun, a Kamehameha senior who won the match-play title in June, and Kyono, the 2001 state high school champion, tied for second last year. Kyono, a Pepperdine senior, has finished in the top three all five years she has played this event.
MORE GOLF
Ex-Rainbow Warrior Kodama tied for 10th
Matt Kodama, a former University of Hawai'i golfer, shot an even-par 71 and was tied for 10th after the first day of the Pacific Coast Amateur Championship at Eugene, Ore.
Kodama, of Las Vegas, was five strokes behind co-leaders Adam Porker of Melbourne, Australia, and Spencer Levin of Elk Grove, Calif.
Casey Watabu of Kapa'a, Kaua'i, shot 2-over 73 and was tied for 23rd.
Northern California led the Morse Cup team competition (best 2 of 3 individual scores) with a 6-under 136, including Levin's 66. Washington State was second at 141.
Kodama's Southern Nevada team was tied for fourth at 147. Hawai'i didn't field a team.
TENNIS
Rain halts play in Kailua men's doubles
Rain continued to plague the Kailua Racquet Club's Men's Night Doubles last night.
Three matches in the round of 16 were in progress when officials halted play because of the inclement weather. They will be resumed tonight, weather permitting, starting at 6.
Also scheduled tonight — with a 7:15 start — is a quarterfinal match pitting the fourth-seeded team of Stefan Pampulov and Jan Tribler against Yoshifumi Manabe and Brendon Pacheco.
TRACK AND FIELD
UH's Murray wins bronze medal
University of Hawai'i junior Novelle Murray captured the bronze medal in the discus Saturday at the under-23 North American, Central American, and Caribbean (NACAC) Championships in Sherbrooke, Quebec.
Murray, from Surrey, B.C., won the Western Athletic Conference championship her first two seasons for the Rainbow Wahine.
American Rebecca Breisch, the NCAA champion for Nebraska, won the discus with a toss of 174 feet, 9 inches. NCAA runner-up Dayana Octavien was next at 160-7 and Murray placed third in her international debut at 152-7.
Sprinting was Murray's main event in high school, but she was advised by head coach Carmyn James at UH to focus solely on discus.
"The discus was my third event until a couple of years ago," Murray, 19 said. "There are actually a lot of similarities between the discus and sprint. You need explosive power and you have to be quick and agile on your feet. My distance has improved more than 10 meters (33 feet) this year."
