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Seven-run inning lifts Kansas past UH-Hilo

Advertiser Staff

Catcher Sean Richardson batted 3 for 6, including two doubles and three RBIs to help Kansas to a 14-9 victory over Hawai'i-Hilo in a college baseball game at Simmons Field in Kailua, Kona, yesterday.

Kansas has won three of the first four games of the seven-game, season-opening series with the Vulcans.

Hilo went out to leads of 5-0 after three innings and 8-2 after four innings. But the Jayhawks scored seven runs in the top of the sixth and added three runs in the seventh and two in the eighth.

Richardson and Matt Tribble each drove in two runs with doubles in the sixth inning.

The Jayhawks pounded seven doubles and had 15 hits. Travis Dunlap hit a two-run homer in the eighth inning.

UH-Hilo's Patrick Hawkins was 4 for 5, including two RBIs and two runs scored.

The series continues today with a scheduled 11 a.m. doubleheader at Simmons Field in the Old Kona Airport State Park.

WEIGHTLIFTING

• Remiticado sets record: Jill Remiticado set a Hawai'i state weightlifting record in the 58-kilogram (127-pound) weight class at the Honolulu Open Weightlifting Championships at the Nu'uanu YMCA on Jan. 10.

Remiticado, 22, lifted 75 kilograms (165 pounds) in the clean and jerk to surpass the record set by Nicola Nakama on March 21, 1998.

She lifted 50 kilograms (110 pounds) in the snatch for a total of 125 kilograms (275).

Remiticado, a former wrestling champion at Pacific University in Oregon, is a girls wrestling assistant coach at Iolani.

Nationally ranked junior lifter Bryce Yamauchi lifted 90 kilograms (198 pounds) in the snatch, 117.5 kilograms (258) in the clean and jerk for 207.5 kilograms (456 pounds).

Stacy Suyama, 2003 Junior National 48-kilogram (106-pound) champion, lifted 62.5 kilograms (138 pounds) in the snatch, 70 kilograms (154) in the clean and jerk for a total of 132.5 kg (292 pounds).