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HPU, BYUH to play in regional in L.A.
Advertiser Staff
Despite a No. 2 ranking in the national poll, Hawai'i Pacific was given a fourth seed in this week's Pacific Regional of the NCAA Division II volleyball tournament.
The Sea Warriors (23-2) will be joined in the eight-team regional in Los Angeles by fellow Pacific West Conference member Brigham Young-Hawai'i (20-4), which is ranked No. 19 and seeded sixth.
HPU will play fifth seed and No. 21 Cal State Bakersfield (20-8) in Thursday's opening round. BYUH meets third seed and No. 14 Cal State San Bernardino (19-7).
Other first-round games match 12th-ranked Cal State Los Angeles (24-2), the host and top seed, against eighth seed and No. 16 Seattle Pacific (22-5) and second seed and No. 9 Cal Poly Pomona (24-2) against seventh-seeded Central Washington (22-4).
HPU closed the PacWest season Saturday night by rallying past BYUH, 22-30, 30-24, 32-34, 30-27, 15-9, at St. Andrew's Priory gym.
Flavia Brakling had 22 kills and 28 digs, Paula Koikopoulos added 23 kills, Barbara Martin contributed 22 kills and 18 digs, and Danie Hout had 12 kills to help the Sea Warriors (23-2, 11-1 PacWest) avenge their only conference loss of the season.
HPU amassed 101 digs, with Vera Oliveira adding 18 and Melissa Sekigawa 16, in the tightly contested match that lasted 2 hours, 45 minutes.
Yu Chuan Weng had 28 kills and 11 digs to lead the Seasiders (20-4, 8-4).
TENNIS
ODESNIK TRIUMPHS
Top-seeded Wayne Odesnik defeated fifth-seeded Scott Lipsky, 6-1, 6-1, yesterday in the final of the USTA Hilton Waikoloa Futures Tournament on the Big Island.
Odesnik won $1,985 and 18 ATP ranking points. The 19-year-old from Weston, Fla., who is ranked 297th in the world, lost in last year's final and had fallen in three previous championship matches on the USTA Pro Circuit this year.
Lipsky, 23, of Huntington Beach, Calif., won $1,350 and 12 ATP ranking points. Lipsky, a former two-time All-American at Stanford and ranked 396th in the world, teamed with David Martin to beat Tyler Cleveland and Dave Lingman, 7-5, 6-2, for the doubles title.
BASKETBALL
BYUH BEATS YONSEI
Austin Smylie had 37 points and nine rebounds as Brigham Young-Hawai'i edged Yonsei University of South Korea, 90-86, Saturday night in the final game of the Asia-Pacific Basketball Tournament at Cannon Activities Center.
Eric Boyce added 19 points for the Seasiders, who finished the exhibition tournament with a 2-0 record.
In other games, Maori Select of New Zealand beat De La Salle University of the Philippines, 104-88, and Huaqiao University of China defeated the Melbourne Tigers of Australia, 88-60.
