Posted on: Sunday, May 23, 2004
ISLE FILE
Chun wrestles for spot on Olympic team
Advertiser Staff
Kapolei's Clarissa Chun won the U.S. Olympic Wrestling Team Trials Challenge Tournament yesterday in Indianapolis, in the 48-kilogram (105-pound) division.
Chun, a 1999 Roosevelt graduate, will face 2004 U.S. Nationals champion Patricia Miranda today in a best-of-three series. The winner earns a spot on the Olympic team.
Chun defeated Sara Fulp-Allen in the final, 5-3 in overtime.
Moanalua graduate Stephany Lee was pinned by Kristie Marano in the 72-kilogram (158-pound) division Challenge final.
Castle High graduate Katie Kunimoto lost the fifth-place match at 48 kilograms. Earlier she had won a consolation quarterfinal with a pin, then lost a consolation semifinal.
Kahuku graduate Elizabeth "Kapua" Torres lost her consolation quarterfinal, 4-3.
BASEBALL
• UH-Hilo loses season finale: Patrick Perry hit a two-run single and John Ray followed with a two-run homer as Northern Colorado scored five runs in the bottom of the sixth inning to rally past Hawai'i-Hilo, 11-4, yesterday on the final day of the Division I Independent Baseball Invitational at Greeley, Colo. Northern Colorado is 29-23. The Vulcans finished their season 9-43.
The Vulcans scored a run in the top of the sixth to take a 4-3 lead when Kahe Santos doubled and scored on a double by Jonathan Cabral.
The Bears then scored their five runs to take an 8-4 lead.
• Scott, Rogers advance: Sean Scott and partner Todd Rogers defeated Switzerland's Patrick Huescher and Stefan Kobel, 21-16, 21-16, yesterday to reach the semifinals of the Swatch-FIVB World Tour Men's China Open at Lianyungang, China. Scott, a Punahou graduate, and Rogers face Spain's Javier Bosma and Pablo Herrera today. The other semifinal pits Brazil teams — top-seeded Ricardo Santos and Emanuel Rego and Pedro Cunha and Rogerio Para.
The championship match also is today.
Santos and Rego eliminated Kevin Wong, another Punahou graduate, and Eric Fonoimoana earlier yesterday, 21-14, 21-17.
MEETING
• Quarterback Club: University of Hawai'i men's basketball coach Riley Wallace is scheduled to speak at tomorrow's Honolulu Quarterback Club. The club's luncheon begins at 11:30 a.m. and program at noon at the Pagoda Ballroom.
Other speakers include Brigham Young-Hawai'i tennis coach Dave Porter and BYUH player Amy Sun.
BYUH's women recently won their third consecutive NCAA Division II national championship and boosted their dual match winning streak to 101.
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