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The Honolulu Advertiser
Posted on: Monday, October 2, 2006

ISLE FILE
Hawai'i team wins hoops title

Advertiser Staff

"Team Aloha" — a select group of Hawai'i high school girls basketball players — won the prestigious Nike Storm and Swish Fall Shootout tournament championship yesterday at Santa Barbara, Calif.

Punahou junior Shawna-Lei Kuehu scored 21 points and Honoka'a senior Keisha Kanekoa added 13 points to lead Team Aloha past the California Storm Black, 60-48, in the title game. California Storm featured all-star players from Southern California.

Team Aloha went 5-0 in the tournament, which was watched by college coaches from UCLA, Southern Cal, Notre Dame, Washington State, Oregon, UC Santa Barbara, Loyola Marymount and Hawai'i, among others.

COLLEGE SOCCER



UH WOMEN LOSE, 4-2

San Diego scored three second-half goals, including two by Ashley Kirk, to defeat visiting Hawai'i, 4-2, in a women's soccer game yesterday.

Hawai'i fell to 6-4-2. San Diego is 8-4.

Leigh Ann Robinson scored 2 minutes, 15 seconds into the game to give San Diego a 1-0 lead. Taryn Fukuroku scored on a header at 35:15 and on a low-liner from 10 yards out with 28 seconds remaining in the half to give UH a 2-1 lead.

Kirk scored at 51:10 and 67 minutes to give the Toreros a 3-2 lead. Robinson scored her second goal at 82:54. UH was outshot by San Diego, 8-1, in the second half.