Posted on: Tuesday, March 8, 2005
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UH's Bryant earns WAC baseball award
Advertiser Staff
Hawai'i's Stephen Bryant earned his second Western Athletic Conference Baseball Pitcher of the Week award this season for his performance against visiting South Florida last Thursday.
Bryant, a senior right-hander from Chico, Calif., struck out a career-high 11 batters in a 9-0 victory against the Bulls.
Bryant also was named WAC Pitcher of the Week on Feb. 21.
Florida St. beats UHH
Jack Rye scored the go-ahead run on an error in the seventh inning as No. 3 Florida State rallied to defeat host Hawai'i-Hilo, 11-5, at Wong Stadium, in a game shorted to eight innings yesterday to accommodate the Seminoles' travel schedule.
UH-Hilo (1-27) led 5-0 after the second inning. The Seminoles (20-1) tied the game at 5 in the seventh and went ahead, 6-5, on run-scoring infield error.
Florida State added five runs in the eighth.
UH-Nebraska tickets
Tickets for the University of Hawai'i Rainbow Wahine volleyball team's spring exhibition match against Nebraska on March 18 go on sale today.
Lower level seating tickets are $10 general admission. In the upper level, prices are $6 for adults, $5 for senior citizens and $3 for UH students and students ages 4-18.
HPU's Peiler honored
Freshman Brandi Peiler was named the Pacific West Conference Player of the Week for leading the Hawai'i Pacific Sea Warriors to a 4-2 record, and two series sweeps against Notre Dame de Namur and Brigham Young-Hawai'i last week.
Peiler batted .500 (8 of 16) with three home runs, two doubles, 12 runs batted in and scored seven times last week.
Through 14 games, Peiler is batting .326 and leads the team and conference with four home runs and 18 RBI. She has a .652 slugging percentage.
Fanning wins Quiksilver
Australia's Mick Fanning defeated Chris Ward, 16.93 to 11.90, to win the Quiksilver Pro today at Snapper Rock, Queensland, Australia, in 3- to 4-foot waves.
Fanning ousted three-time defending world champion Andy Irons of Kaua'i in the quarterfinals en route to the $30,000 first prize.
Irons beat his brother, Bruce, in the fourth round. Fred Patacchia, also of Hawai'i, lost to Trent Munro in the fourth round.
He allowed just three hits and three walks in eight innings and was named the First Hawaii Title Rainbow Baseball Tournament Most Outstanding Pitcher.
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