Hawaii Beat






By Star-Bulletin Staff

Friday, February 21, 1997


Four Olympic
gymnasts here

Four Olympic gymnasts from the U.S. women's gold medal-winning team in the Atlanta Games will appear at the Hawaiian Gymnastics Classic tomorrow and Sunday at the Palama Settlement gym.

Shannon Miller and Amy Chow will perform after tomorrow's sessions that start at 12:30 p.m., 4 p.m. and 8:30 p.m.

Amanda Borden and Jaycie Phelps perform following Sunday's sessions that begin at noon and 3:30 p.m. All four will perform after Sunday night's final session that runs from 7:30 to 10.

ARIZONA TAKES LEAD

The Arizona Wildcats jumped from fourth to first place with a 566 total after two rounds of the John A. Burns Intercollegiate golf tournament being played at the Kaneohe Klipper Course.

The Wildcats' Rory Sabbatini fired a 5-under-par 67 for a 36-hole total of 138 to grab the individual lead from first-round leader, Alabama's Patrick Vadden, by one stroke.

Van Wright leads the University of Hawaii with a 148 while Ryan Koshi tops the University of Hawaii at Hilo with a 145.

WAHINE LOSE TWO

At San Diego, The University of Hawaii women's softball team lost both of its games yesterday as the four-day Campbell/Cartier Classic sponsored by San Diego State began.

Arkansas edged UH, 5-4, in the first game on a lead-off home run in the bottom of the sixth inning and Stanford beat the Wahine, 7-2, limiting UH (9-6) to two hits.



SOUZA, STITH LEAD HPU

At Newhall, Calif., Palani Souza pitched a nine-hit complete game and Daric Stith knocked in four runs as Hawaii Pacific University improved to 3-1 on its baseball road trip with a 9-4 victory over California Baptist in a nonconference game yesterday.

Stith singled in two runs in HPU's five-run third, when the Sea Warriors (9-7) took a 6-0 lead.



VULCANS' HARRIERS HONORED

The University of Hawaii at Hilo men's cross-country team, Pacific West Conference champion, will receive the Sears Collegiate Champions Award during halftime of tomorrow night's basketball game between the Vulcans and BYU-Hawaii.



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