ISLE FILE
HPU softball sweeps
Advertiser Staff
Courtney Kessell and Sherise Musquiz pitched complete games, and Tajia Acierto hit solo homers in each game as Hawai'i Pacific swept Point Loma Nazarene, 3-2 and 2-1, in softball action yesterday at HPU Field.
Musquiz scattered 10 hits, struck out two and walked one in the opener.
Kessell also spaced 10 hits, while striking out one and walking none for HPU (8-0).
Donie Thomas and Erica Ricker each had four hits in the doubleheader for the Crusaders (6-4).
Elsewhere, Brigham Young-Hawai'i dropped a hard-fought Pacific West Conference doubleheader to Grand Canyon, 5-4 and 2-1, at BYUH Field.
The Seasiders (3-18, 2-6), designated as the visiting team, took a 4-3 lead into the bottom of the seventh of the first game, but the Antelopes (9-8-1, 4-0) got a two-out, two-run double from Sydney Reyes to win it.
In the second game, BYUH scored a run in the top of the seventh, but ended it there.
Leslie Fester had three hits and Melissa Lehano three RBIs in the doubleheader for BYUH.
RIFLERY
TANOUE MISSES MARK
Honolulu's Ryan Tanoue missed out on an Olympic qualifying spot Monday when he finished fifth in Men's 10-meter Air Rifle at the 2008 U.S. Olympic Team Shooting Trials at Colorado Springs. The top two shooters will represent the U.S. in Beijing this summer.
Stephen Scherer, from Massachusetts, and Jason Parker, from Nebraska, qualified with scores of 1,994.1 points and 1990.8. Tanoue had 1,975.8 points.
