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*               -==** HAWAII SPORTS NEWS **==-                  *
* The following is a summary of the 5/18/98 Hawaii Sports News  *
* compiled from a variety of sources. Email Dayle Turner        *
* (turner@hawaii.edu) if you have any comments or suggestions.  * 
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** Sports Shorts **

The UH Wahine were summarily dismissed from the NCAA Regional 1 softball
tournament after losing two straight games to Pacific this weekend at
Tucson, Ariz.  The Wahine, ranked 10th in the country last week, finish
their season 45-16.  
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Punahou swept the boys' and girls' titles at the Hawaii high school track
and field championships on Saturday night at Kaiser High.  A crowd of over
2,000 watched athletes break eight meet records with Castle's Bryan Clay
and Kaiser's Endia Abrante setting five between them.  

	==Girls Team Results==
Punahou 78.5, Kamehameha 39.75, Hawaii Prep 24, 
Baldwin 23, Mililani 22.

	==Girls State Champions==
Discus: Aloha Santiago (Baldwin) 129-2
Shot Put: Aloha Santiago (Baldwin) 39-2
Pole Vault: Michelle Mizo (Iolani) 9-6
Long Jump: Kaili Chapman (HPA) 17-4 1/4
High Jump: Jill Van Horn (Punahou) 5-3
100 High Hurdles: Erin Fujii (Punahou) 15.25
100: Endia Abrante (Kaiser) 12.2
400: Endia Abrante (Kaiser) 54.41 [record]
1600: Victoria Chang (Punahou) 5:19.56
4x100 Relay: Leilehua 51.28
4x200 Relay: Kamehameha 1:47.49
800: Eri Macdonald (Punahou) 2:22.03
300 Low Hurdles: Natasha Kai (Kahuku) 45.37 [record]
200: Endia Abrante (Kaiser) 24.44 [record]
Triple Jump: Sara Yap (Punahou) 37-8 3/4 [record]
4x400 Relay: Punahou 4:06.90

	==Boys Team Results==
Punahou 42, St. Anthony 25, Castle 24, 
Iolani 22.5, Kamehameha 22.

	==Boys State Champions==
Discus: Joe Siofele (St. Louis) 179-6
Shot Put: Joe Siofele (St. Louis) 54-3 1/2
Pole Vault: Kenny Lum (Moanalua) 13-9
Long Jump: Bryan Clay (Castle) 24-6 1/2 [record]
110 High Hurdles: Bryan Clay (Castle) 13.90 [record]
100: Bryan Clay (Castle) 10.52 [record]
400: Bennett Valencia (Punahou) 48.73
4x100 Relay: Punahou 43.13
1600: Robby Phillip (Mililani) 4:27.71
High Jump: Kris Cuaresma-Primm (MPI) 6-9 [record]
3200: Joshua Villanueva (Hilo) 9:55.58
4x400 Relay: Punahou 3:24.25
200: Bryan Clay (Castle) 21.41
800: Grant Guise (Seabury) 1:58.83
Triple Jump: Ricy Marshall-Greene (Moanalua) 46-7 1/2
300 Hurdles: Dana Navarro-Arias (Maui) 39.70
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At the state high school tennis championships on Kauai, Punahou won the
boys crown while Iolani and Mililani shared the girls title.
Lahainaluna's Malino Oda, a senior, and Mililani's Erin Hoe, a sophomore,
defended their singles crowns.  Punahou's Bucky Jencks and Mike
Bruggermann won the boys' doubles championship and Baldwin's Lauren
Akitake and Jan Ikeda the girls'.
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Australia's Dean Gardiner (men's kayak), Hawaii Kai's Kelly Fey (women's
kayak), Honolulu's Mark Rigg (men's canoe), and Kailua-Kona's Cheryl
Villegas (women's canoe) won their respective divisions at yesterday's 
32-mile Molokai Challenge race from Kaluakoi on Molokai to Koko Marina on
Oahu.
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Anna Umemura, 19, rallied from a three-stroke deficit in the final three
holes to win the Jennie K. Wilson Invitational yesterday at the
Mid-Pacific Country Club.  The win was her third in four tries at the
Jennie K., considered one of the three major tournaments of women's golf
in Hawaii.
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Takatoriki lost his first match last night but remained in the lead of the
Tokyo Summer Grand Sumo Tournament with an 8-1 record.  Six rikishi are
7-2, including grand champion Takanohana and champions Musashimaru
(Fiamalu Penitani of Waianae) and Wakanohana.  Grand champion Akebono
(Chad Rowan of Waimanalo) is in a group of five at 6-3.
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High school state champions in baseball and girls' basketball will be
determined this week.  ILH champ Mid-Pacific is the baseball top seed.
Maui is seeded second, Waianae third, and Waiakea fourth.  Other
qualifiers are Roosevelt, Aiea, Mililani, Kalani, Iolani, Hilo, Baldwin,
and Kauai.  Tournament games will be held at Aloha Stadium.  In girls'
basketball, OIA titlist Kalaheo is seeded No. 1 and is followed by
Punahou, Waiakea, and Baldwin.  Other teams entered are McKinley, Waipahu,
Kahuku, Nanakuli, Maryknoll, Konawaena, Lahainaluna, and Kauai.  First
round games will be held at Kamehameha and McKinley with the remaining
games being played at the Stan Sheriff Center.

** Oahu Surf Report **

North shore: 1 to 2 feet
South shore: 1 to 3 feet
East shore : 1 to 3 feet
West shore : 1 to 2 feet

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Aloha sports fans,

--DKT

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