Eric Fontes says his football prognostication prowess is a combination of faith and luck. Fever winner
had feelingEric Fontes plays a hunch
and goes 10-0Apparently, that's a great recipe for success because Fontes was right on all 10 of his Football Fever picks last week. His perfect ballot was the first picked among those that were equal to or better than our best celebrity panelist.
Fontes is our seventh weekly winner of $500 and four tickets to the Jeep Oahu Bowl on Christmas Day.
"Right on! Praise the Lord," Fontes said when told he had won the contest. "That's all by luck. I go with the top teams, but sometimes I get a feeling ..."
That feeling led him to pick Georgia Tech over Virginia in what was the week's biggest upset.
The top celebrities last week were Star-Bulletin writer Cindy Luis and assistant sports editor Randy Cadiente, both of whom were 8-2.
Each contestant is eligible for the grand prize of a home entertainment system by Infinity Sound Systems, valued at roughly $10,000. The first prize is a trip for two to the Hooters Hula Bowl on Maui and the second prize is two round-trip tickets to or from the U.S. mainland on Delta Airlines.
ROSA WINS SURFING PRIZE: Brazil's Peterson Rosa won the Rio Marathon Surf International meet Sunday in Brazil, his first Association of Surfing Professionals title in seven years on the World Championship Tour.
Runner-up Michael Campbell overtook fellow Australian Daniel Wills, a fourth-round casualty, for the No. 1 spot in the WCT rankings with one event remaining -- the Mountain Dew Pipe Masters in December at the Banzai Pipeline on Oahu's North Shore.
Hawaii's Shane Dorian and Sunny Garcia are sixth and seventh, respectively. Dorian lost to Campbell and Garcia was beaten by Rosa in the Rio quarterfinals.
Pauline Menczer won the Rio women's title Saturday.
NISHIMOTO, VERIATO QUALIFY: Dan Nishimoto of Kauai was the low scorer yesterday among four senior golfers who gained spots in this weekend's $1 million EMC Kaanapali Classic at the Kaanapali North Course on Maui.
Nishimoto shot a 4-under-par 67 in the qualifying round. Former Big Islander Steve Veriato, who now lives Buda, Texas, had a 69. Don Klenk of Glen Ellyn, Ill., and Jimmy Bullard of Las Vegas also shot 69s.
They will join 74 players from the Senior PGA Tour, including defending champion Hale Irwin, in the 54-hole Kaanapali Classic Friday through Sunday.
UH WAHINE SAIL IN THIRD: The Hawaii women's sailing team finished third, behind two Stanford teams and ahead of USC, UCLA, UC Santa Barbara and Long Beach State, in the Pacific Coast Intercollegiate Yacht Racing Association Fall Championships in Marina Del Ray, Calif.
Competing for UH were Laura Rehg, Ursula Austin, Molly O'Brien and Natalia Tangalin.