ISLE FILE
No. 2 Hawai'i Pacific beats Hilo
Advertiser Staff
Flavia Brakling had 21 kills and 18 digs as second-ranked Hawai'i Pacific swept Hawai'i-Hilo, 30-16, 30-26, 30-23, last night in a Pacific West Conference women's volleyball match at Hilo.
Paula Koikopoulos added 15 kills and Barbara Martin 11 kills and 10 digs for the Sea Warriors (20-1 overall, 8-0 PacWest).
Taina Savage had 16 kills, Rose Ramsey added 10 kills and Kahealani Silva contributed 25 digs for the Vulcans (12-10, 3-5).
GOLF
LEE IN TIE FOR THIRD
Regan Lee fired a 1-under 71 yesterday to move into a tie for third halfway through the TaylorMade-adidas Golf PGA Assistant Professional Championship in Port St. Lucie, Fla.
Lee, an 'Aiea graduate who works at Pearl Country Club, is at 1-under 143. He is six shots off the lead of two-time champion Kyle Flinton (68), who went double-eagle, eagle, birdie, birdie midway through a back-nine 29. Flinton holed a 4-iron on the 525-yard 13th hole, then knocked the ball in with his 8-iron on the next hole.
Wind gusts as high as 30 mph at the PGA Golf Club kept scores high, with only six players in the field of 120 finishing under par through two days. Mililani Golf Club's Joey Tadeo (80—156) missed the cut, which came at 153. The 77 remaining golfers play the final 36 holes today.
The winner gets $9,000 and, if eligible, a berth in the 2006 PGA Club Professional Championship next June in New York.
CROSS COUNTRY
UH LAST IN WAC
The University of Hawai'i women's cross country team finished last in the eight-team field of the Western Athletic Conference Championships yesterday in Boise, Idaho.
The Rainbow Wahine amassed 231 points, with Sheena Thain the top UH finisher in the 5-kilometer race. Thain placed 38th in 19 minutes, 50.31 seconds.
Idaho won with a low-best score of 30 as its top five runners placed first, third, fourth, fifth and 17th. Dee Olson won the race in 17:31.31.
Utah State, led by first-place finisher Trever Ball (24:12.87), easily won the men's 8K competition with 16 points.
YOAKUM, TAYLOR WIN
Radford's Shelby Yoakum and Kailua's Kensuke Taylor won the individual titles of the O'ahu Interscholastic Association Junior Varsity Cross Country Championships yesterday at Waialua High School.
Yoakum finished the girls 3-mile run in 19 minutes, 42.12 seconds. Taylor took the boys 3-mile race in 17:04.06.
Campbell won the girls title with a low-best 40 points. Moanalua won the boys title with 41 points.
WATER POLO
BYUH TOPS AIR FORCE
Jamie Jacobson scored in sudden-death overtime as the Brigham Young-Hawai'i men's water polo team defeated 18th-ranked Air Force, 11-10, yesterday at the Aggie Shootout Tournament in Davis, Calif.
BYUH trailed 10-9 with 21 seconds left in the second overtime when an Air Force player who had been ejected tried to re-enter play. The Seasiders were awarded a penalty shot and Koen Plasmeijer scored to send the match into sudden death.
Earlier in the day, Dragan Bakic scored six goals as No. 9 Pacific beat BYUH, 13-9.
BYUH (12-8) now awaits the final Western Water Polo Association rankings to determine if it will play in the WWPA tournament next month.
