Hawaii Pacific was seeded second while Brigham Young-Hawaii was not among the 16 seeds when the pairings for the 60th NAIA Men's Basketball Tournament were announced yesterday. Sea Warriors seeded second
The Sea Warriors (24-3) will face William Carey College (22-13) of Mississippi at 2:15 p.m. Wednesday in Tulsa. HPU is the Far West section winner while William Carey defeated Spring Hill College for the Gulf Coast Conference title.
The Seasiders (20-6), one of 10 teams receiving at-large berths, meet 16th-seeded Transylvania of Kentucky at 2:15 Tuesday.
KWHE-TV Channel 11 will televise HPU's tournament games next week and BYU-Hawaii's contests can be seen live on Oceanic Cable Channel 16.
AMATEUR GOLF CUT BACK: The Hawaii State Amateur Golf Tournament was cut to 54 holes after yesterday's first round was cancelled at the Pearl Country Club because of rain.
The field, led by defending champion Brandan Kop, tried to tee it up again today.
The cut will be made after 18 holes. Tomorrow's second round and Sunday's final round will start at 11:05 a.m.
JAQUIAS IN, GARCIA OUT: At Kirra Point, Queensland, defending champion Kaipo Jaquias of Hawaii defeated Beau Emerton from Australia yesterday to advance to the second round of the Billabong Pro surf meet.
Hawaii's Sunny Garcia, ranked No. 2 in the world, was eliminated in the repechage heat 2 by Australian Lee Winkler.
Advancing to today's third round was Hawaii's Shawn Sutton, who upset fourth-ranked Luke Egan.
SOFTBALL RAIN VICTIM: The Bank of Hawaii Invitational women's softball tournament had only one game completed yesterday as rain forced cancellation of the remaining two games at the Rainbow Wahine Softball Stadium.
Southeast Missouri State scored the winning run in the top of the eighth inning to defeat Creighton, 5-4.
UH RECORDS FALL: Ben Mercier and Simon Thirsk broke three University of Hawaii swimming records in the recent WAC Men's Swimming and Diving Championships at San Antonio.
Mercier broke his own 100-yard butterfly mark with an NCAA provisional time of 48.30 seconds in finishing third in the event.
Thirsk set records in the 100- and 200-yard backstroke races. He broke Gary Hurring's 11-year-old mark in the 100 back with a 49.92, finishing third, and Hurring's 12-year-old record in the 200 back with a 1:47:85 to place fifth.