Hawaii Beat

By Star-Bulletin Staff

Hawaii Pacific is 21-9 for the season.

But the Sea Warriors' baseball team dropped both ends of its doubleheader with Southern California College yesterday at Costa Mesa, Calif. The HPU men are 7-14-1 overall.

In the first softball game, Michele Ringor went 3-for-4 with a triple in leading HPU to a 4-1 victory.

In the second game, Ilima Guerrero went 3-for-3 as the Sea warriors won, 8-0. Winning pitchers Raquel De La Garza and Brigette Larson tossed three-hitters.

At Costa Mesa, the score in both of HPU's baseball losses was 3-2. The Sea Warriors were held to six hits in the first game and five in the second.

Southern California's Brian Nolan singled in Mike Caston to snap a 2-2 tie in the bottom of the seventh in the first game.

The Vanguards went up 3-0 with a pair of runs in the third inning of the second game. HPU rallied for two runs in the top of the fourth. But Joe Rivera set HPU down in the bottom of the seventh to get the save for Southern California winner Kelly Lowery.

Yee, 80, was the first Asian-American to play in the U.S. Open (in 1937), and won the Hawaii Territorial championships from 1937 through 1939. He went on to coach several generations of players.

Yee, who recently suffered heart and kidney problems, is moving to Colorado to be closer to family there.

For information, call Roger Lee at 521-2775 or 656-2942, ext. 350.

You was a prominent Hawaii sportsman who managed, coached and trained athletes such as Olympic weightlifting champion Tommy Kono and world-class marathoner Norman Tamanaha. You also helped initiate the Honolulu Marathon and supported many other amateur sports activities.

The service starts at 6:30 p.m.

Vanole was the starting goalkeeper for the United States in the 1990 World Cup in Italy and is currently the goalkeeper and captain of the U.S. team competing in international beach soccer.

The clinics are being held in conjunction with the Kirk Banks Soccer Tournament that runs from Wednesday through Sunday at Kapiolani Park.

Registration starts on Monday at 4:30 p.m. for paddlers 18 and under.

Women's registration is Tuesday at 5:30 p.m. and the men can register on Wednesday at 5:30 p.m.

The club's practice sites is at the Kapahulu Library end of Ala Wai Canal.

The men train on Monday and Wednesday, the women on Tuesday and Thursday at 5:30 p.m.

For further information, call 946-1366.

Harry Ferguson of Wahiawa was second and Al Sanchez of Kaneohe third in the men's division.

Honolulu's Peedi-Jean Saldania and Michelle Tuggle of Pearl City were next in the women's division.

In the open division, Doug Ebbers of Kapolei topped the men's division followed by Mark Lundin of San Bruno, Calif., and Brian Kammerer of Schofield Barracks.

Manuela Koschinski of Berlin, Germany, took the women's title. Honolulu's Carol Jaxon was second.

Honolulu's Craig Glenser and Pearl City's Hank Fournier captured the men's team division.