ISLE FILE
Rainbow Wahine in WAC swim lead
Advertiser Staff
Victories by Bache Atkins and QiongJie Huang, and strong finishes by their teammates helped the University of Hawai'i maintain first place after two days of the Western Athletic Conference Women's Championship at the Palo Alto College Natatorium in San Antonio, Texas.
Atkins captured the 500 free with a time of 4:49.51. UH's Jessica Affleck was third (4:55.58), Claudia Barsi fourth (4:57.42), and Serena Waddel sixth (5:02.82) to help earn points for the Rainbow Wahine.
Huang won her third straight WAC title in the 1-meter springboard with a score of 314.40 as UH swept the first three places. Rui Wang was second (286.80) and Megan Farrow third (279.40).
Kaiser High alum Ashley Swart of San Diego won the 200 IM in 2:04.91.
The Rainbow Wahine lead with 248 points, followed by Nevada (245), Northern Arizona (231.5), San Jose State (191.5), Idaho (125), New Mexico State (117) and San Diego (92).
How other UH swimmers fared:
1-meter springboard—Emily Hanson (tied for 12th) 214.90, Alyson Giometti (17th) 184.20. 200 IM—Katie Clewett (7th) 2:07.91. 50 free—Elliko Heimbach (11th) 24.24 seconds, Mia Broden (14th) 24.31. 200 free relay—UH (Broden, Jaclyn Rosen, Heimbach, Atkins) 5th 1:35.49.
AFFLECK SWIMS TO RECORD
University of Hawai'i's Andrew Affleck broke the meet and pool records yesterday in the 500 free at the Conference USA Swimming and Diving Championships at the University of Houston.
Affleck had a time of 4 minutes, 24.77 seconds, breaking the CUSA meet record by 5/100ths of a second and and the Campus Recreation and Wellness Center Natatorium mark by more than a second.
Hawai'i's Jaime Sohn and Dustin Fukuda finished fifth (4:38.77) and sixth (4:39.68), respectively in the same event.
Hawai'i's Thomas Walker won the 50 free with a time of 19.82 seconds. Teammates Graeme Tozer was fourth (20.28) and David Abrams 10th (21.01).
SMU leads the championship after two days with 361 points, followed by East Carolina (264), and Hawai'i (200).
How other UH swimmers fared:
200 IM — Nicola Xella (5th) 1:52.11, Matt Chun (12th) 1:59.28). 400 medley relay — UH disqualified.
GOLF
HAWAI'I 15TH IN BURNS
Host University of Hawai'i is in 15th place, 25 shots off the lead held by Brigham Young and Auburn after two rounds of the John A. Burns Intercollegiate Tournament at the Leilehua Golf Course.
The Warriors have a 36-hole team aggregate total of 572. BYU and Auburn are tied at 547. SMU (550) is third, followed by Arizona, San Diego State and Colorado State at 544.
Auburn's Jay Moseley fired a 6-under 66 for a 132 total and a two-stroke lead over teammate Glenn North Cut (69) and Colorado State's Zen Brown (67) at 134.
Hawai'i's Pierre-Henri Soero shot 66 and is in a group of six, which includes Nevada's Casey Watabu 65) at 136.
WATER POLO
RAINBOWS WIN, 7-3
Kelly Mason scored three goals and Iefke Van Belkum added two leading the fifth-ranked University of Hawai'i Rainbow Wahine to a 7-3 victory over ninth-ranked San Diego State yesterday in a Mountain Pacific Sports Federation game at San Diego.
Lisa van Raalte and Anna Sieprath added goals and Meike DeNooy made 12 saves for UH (4-4, 2-2 MPSF).
Becca Ur, Stacy Werner and Rachel Serna scored goals for San Diego State (3-2, 0-1).
