Hawaii Beat

By Star-Bulletin Staff

Tuesday, July 20, 1999

Otake new Pearl City
head football coach

Pearl City High School athletic director Roy Ichinose has named Ernest Otake its new head football coach.

Otake, who replaces Lloyd Richards at the helm of the Chargers, is a former Mililani assistant coach.

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Fukumoto, Otani win judo bronze medals

Duane Fukumoto and Jeremy Otani of the Newtown Shinseikan Club won bronze medals in recent national judo tournaments on the mainland.

Fukumoto placed third in the Inter A-90 Pounds Division of the 36th annual U.S. Judo Federation Junior, Youth, Team and Kata Championship at Irvine, Calif.

Otani was third in the Juvenile A-59-Kilogram Division of the 30th annual U.S. Judo Association Junior Championship at San Diego.

Nelson-Sasada leads match-play qualifying

Makena Resort professionals Kirk Nelson and Brian Sasada shot a best-ball score of 7-under-par 64 to lead the field into today's second round of the Aloha Section PGA Four-Ball Match Play Championship at the Oahu Country Club.

One stroke off the pace in yesterday's qualifying round was the team of Waialae's Kevin Ralbovsky and Ken Springer.

Kevin Kashiwai parred the fourth hole of a sudden-death playoff to claim the 16th and last match-play slot for himself and partner Roy Adams over Brad Bowen and Eddie Lee. Kashiwai played the extra holes alone because Adams had to leave before the playoff started.

Defending champions David Ishii of the Pearl Country Club and David Chin of Navy-Marine automatically were seeded No. 1 for match play.

Vulcans sign pitcher

Luke Holscher, a 6-foot-2 right-handed pitcher from Forest Grove, Ore., has committed to the University of Hawaii at Hilo, announced Vulcans baseball coach Joey Estrella.

Holscher was 9-1 with a 1.03 ERA last season.

National Gymnastics Day highlighted by exhibition

The Hawaiian Island Twisters will help celebrate the first-ever National Gymnastics Day with an exhibition at Windward Mall on Saturday, July 31, from 10:30 a.m. to noon.

An Open House will follow at 1 p.m. at the Hawaiian Island Twisters' gym in Kaneohe.