Posted on: Wednesday, May 25, 2005
HOMEGROWN REPORT
Eldredge reaps softball honors
By Leila Wai
Advertiser Staff Writer
California senior center fielder Kaleo Eldredge was named to the Louisville Slugger/NFCA All-Pacific Region first team and was a Pac-10 Conference second-team selection.
Eldredge, a 2001 Baldwin graduate, is hitting .323 with a .516 slugging percentage, six homers and 37 RBIs.
Cal advanced to the Super Regional round against Baylor in a best-of-three series Friday and Saturday.
The Bears beat Fresno State, 1-0, to capture the Region 2 title last Saturday after beating FSU, 3-1, earlier in the day to force a playoff. Eldredge's RBI double in the fifth gave Cal a 2-1 lead.
Cal defeated Long Beach State, 4-3, and BYU, 9-0 (five innings), Friday to advance from the losers' bracket.
Eldredge is Cal's first four-time all-conference selection since 1999-02 and first four-time all-region selection since 1992-95. She became Cal's career leader in runs (157) when she scored against BYU, and set the Bears' career hit by pitch mark at 18 Thursday against BYU.
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• Missouri Valley College sophomore shortstop Loke Lastimosa (Kailua '03 of Waimanalo) was named the Heart of America Conference Newcomer of the Year and was selected to the all-conference first team. Men's Volleyball
• Ball State senior middle blocker Andrew Braley (Kalaheo '00) earned Academic All-Midwestern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association accolades. Braley, who graduated this month in landscape architecture, had a 3.346 GPA. His .364 career attack percentage is ninth in school history.
If you know of any athletes deserving of recognition, give us their names, high schools and graduation years, colleges and sports. E-mail us at: homegrown@honoluluadvertiser.com or contact Leila Wai at 535-2457. Tuifagu, who was also named to the conference all-tournament team, led the conference in kills per game (4.19).
Missouri Valley sophomore libero Justin Himori (Mililani) and sophomore setter Chris Kaneko (Pearl City '03) were named to the conference's all-academic team, along with Lindenwood (Saint Charles, Mo.) senior libero Devin Hori (Kohala '00).
Missouri Valley finished third in the NAIA National Championships last month, losing to Lindenwood (Mo.) in the semifinals in five games.
California Baptist, which includes freshman outside hitter Corey Spence (Seabury Hall of Kihei), won the NAIA national championship by beating Lindenwood, 30-19, 36-34, 30-22.
Baseball
• Highland (Kan.) Community College freshman outfielder Dylan Libadisos ('Aiea '04 of Kapolei) was named to the Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference Eastern Division first team and the National Junior College Athletic Association All-Region VI Division I team. • Yavapai (Prescott, Ariz.) College freshman infielder Milton Loo (Moloka'i '04) was named to the Arizona Community College Athletic Conference all-conference team and the National Junior College Athletic Association All-Region I Division I team.
Also playing for Yavapai were sophomore left-hander Shawn Benson (Pearl City '03), freshman left-hander Randy Kitagawa (Kalani '04 of Honolulu), freshman catcher Aaron Asher ('Aiea '04 of Waipahu) and sophomore infielder Gered Mochizuki (Baldwin '03 of Maui).
Reach Leila Wai at lwai@honoluluadvertiser.com or 535-2457.
• Missouri Valley College freshman outside hitter Adam Tuifagu (Kamehameha '04) was named the Mid-America Men's Volleyball Intercollegiate Conference Freshman of the Year and was selected first-team all-conference.
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