Shane Dorian and Sunny Garcia won elimination heats yesterday to join four other Hawaii surfers in the third round of the ASP Rio Mara-thon International at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Dorian, Garcia win
surf heatsAdvancing earlier were Andy Irons, Ross Williams, John Shimooka and Shawn Sutton.
Derek Ho and Kaipo Jaquias of Hawaii were eliminated yesterday.
Also knocked out in second-round heats were Hawaii's two women standouts, Rochelle Ballard and Megan Abubo.
The Rio meet is the next-to-last event on the World Championship Tour, which winds up next month at the Banzai Pipeline on Oahu's North Shore.
FOUR HAWAII GOLFERS ADVANCE: Marc Orlowski of Lanai and Mark Chapleski of Kapolei had 36-hole qualifying scores of 149 and two other Hawaii golfers -- Hilo's Kevin Hayashi (150) and Kapalua's Brendan Moynahan (152) -- also made the halfway cut yesterday in the weather-delayed Western PGA Club Professional Championship at Sunriver, Ore.
Orlowski shot 69, Chapleski 72, Hayashi 74 and Moynahan 75 in the second round, after which Milan Silor of Sandy, Utah, led the way at 67--140.
UH MEN 11TH IN GOLF TOURNEY: Hawaii was 11th in the 15-team field and 29 strokes behind front-runner California after yesterday's second round of the 36th Fresno Lexus Classic.
Isaac Sanchez led the Rainbows with a 73-72--145, just three shots behind individual leaders Jason Preeo of Pacific, Dong Yi of Cal and Billy Harvey of Brigham Young.
The 54-hole tourney was to wind up today.
QB CLUB CITES LAUBACH, IGBER: Brigham Young-Hawaii volleyball star Becky Laubach and record-setting Iolani running back Joe Igber, the Honolulu Quarterback Club's Sportspersons of the Month, will be honored at Monday's luncheon-meeting at the Pagoda Restaurant.
OIA executive director Dwight Toyama, Hawaii water polo coach Shari Smart and UH football coach Fred vonAppen also will speak. Lunch begins at 11:30 a.m., with the program to follow.
25G PUTT: Kathy Bastian of Honolulu will try to make a 10-foot putt worth $25,000 -- half for herself, half for tournament charities -- in the Gillette Putting Challenge at the Kaanapali Golf Course Tuesday.
The putt attempt and the preceding Gillette Tour Challenge, a six-hole competition featuring 10 of the top Senior PGA Tour golfers, will be held in conjunction with the EMC Kaanapali Classic.
WAKANOHANA AILING: Sumo grand champion Wakanohana needs three weeks to recover completely from an injury to his right knee suffered at a competition in Nagoya last week, stablemaster Futagoyama said today.
Futagoyama is with a troupe of wrestlers and officials on a barnstorming tour prior to next month's Kyushu Grand Sumo Tournament in Fukuoka.
The stablemaster voiced concern over the possibility that Wakanohana may have to withdraw from the Kyushu event.