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Tennis qualifying kicks off at CORP
Advertiser Staff
Qualifying for the Oceanic Time Warner Cable Hawai'i Open Sectionals is this weekend at the newly named Patsy T. Mink Central O'ahu Regional Park. Main-draw matches begin Thursday, with the finals scheduled next Sunday.
University of Hawai'i junior Sascha Heinemann will defend his men's singles title. He is seeded second behind sophomore teammate Andreas Weber. Both are from Germany and were ranked among the Top 100 in the NCAA last spring. Hawai'i Pacific's Anastasyia Ageychik and Ingrid Cseh are seeded 1-2 in women's singles. Ageychik is a junior from Belarus and Cseh a sophomore from Romania.
Dennis Lajola, back home after training with the national high performance program the past four years, is seeded fourth behind former HPU All-American Mikael Maatta.
Play starts at 4 p.m. Thursday and Friday, with next Saturday's semifinals beginning at 8:30 a.m. The women's final is scheduled for 8:30 a.m. next Sunday, with the men's final at 10:30 a.m. Men's and women's doubles are scheduled for 12:30 p.m.
In other tennis news, Maui's Beth Arnoult-Ritthaler and her partner, Florence Gravellier of France, lost to top seeds Jiske Griffioen and Esther Vergeer — both from the Netherlands — 6-3, 6-0 in the women's wheelchair doubles first round, at the U.S. Open in Flushing Meadows (N.Y.).
VOLLEYBALL
BEACH EVENT SET
The fourth annual coed beach volleyball four-person restaurant and bar event, hosted by the Hawai'i Volleyball Association and the Hawai'i Food Bank is scheduled for Monday at Queen's Surf Beach in Waikiki.
The event will run from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Some of the teams entered are Senor Frog, Compadres Bar & Grill, Islands Fine Burgers, P.F. Changs, Planet Hollywood, Fusions, E.O. Trading, Tiki's Bar & Grill, Lulu's Waikiki, Angles, and Ruth Chris Steakhouse.
Some team slots are still available at $250 per team with proceeds going to the host organizations.
For details, call 955-2264 or go to www.HawaiiVolleyball.net. E-mail: info@HawaiiVolleyball.net or WHVA@aol.com.
SOCCER
BYUH, UH-HILO WIN
Brian Noguera had a hand in three of Brigham Young-Hawai'i's goals last night, as the Seasiders beat Chaminade, 4-0, in the Hawai'i Challenge Cup at War Memorial Stadium on Maui.
Noguera assisted on goals by Shawn Blymiller and Sam Akinaka in the second half, and added his own at the 89-minute mark for the final goal.
Trenton Read scored BYUH's other goal.
In a later match at War Memorial, UH-Hilo beat Hawai'i Pacific, 4-2.
Ryan Neill, Drew Geis, Dustin Daley and Carlos Lopez scored for UH-Hilo.
Today, Chaminade and HPU will play at 5 p.m., and BYUH and UH-Hilo will follow at 7.
