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Hawaii Beat

By Star-Bulletin Staff

Wednesday, February 16, 2000

HIC Pro surf meet
starts at Pipeline

Pancho Sullivan and Myles Padaca, the leaders in the Asahi Grand Slam of Surfing Series, were to ride the waves today in the HIC Pro meet at the Banzai Pipeline.

Joining them in the fourth and final event of the series were defending champion Derek Ho and yesterday's first- and second-round winners, including Alex Cox, Rainos Hayes and Erik Barton.

Kailua's Gregory Quinn, at 42 one of the senior surfers in the event, had the highest single-wave score of the opening round - a near-perfect 9.5 in the 4- 6-foot morning sets. But conditions deteriorated somewhat in the afternoon and he was eliminated in a second- round heat.

Hawaii-Japan boxing shows

Hawaii vs. Japan amateur boxing cards will be held tomorrow and Friday at Kalakaua Gym starting at 7 each night.

There will be 10-15 fights each night.

Admission is $10. For more information, call Ralph Martin at 922-3777.

UH water polo team wins

Denise Parreira scored three goals in a balanced Hawaii attack as the Wahine water polo team cruised to a 15-3 exhibition victory over the Australia All-Stars yesterday at Duke Kahanamoku Pool.

UH next hosts Loyola Marymount in matches at 6 p.m. Friday and Sunday.

BYUH, HPU tennis teams split

Brigham Young-Hawaii, No. 1 in NCAA Division II women's tennis, drilled Hawaii Pacific, 9-0, yesterday at Laie but the previously unbeaten BYUH men lost to the Sea Warriors, 7-2.

The BYUH women didn't lose a set on the way to their fourth victory without a loss.

Filip Meyer and Stefan Pampulov won key men's singles matches for Hawaii Pacific. BYUH dropped to 3-1.

College golf at Waikoloa

Georgia Tech, rated No. 1 in the nation by Golfweek, heads a 24-team field in the 10th Taylor Made/Waikoloa Invitational golf tournament starting tomorrow at the Big Island resort.

Also in the field are nationally ranked Arizona State, Stanford, Washington, Southern Cal, Arizona, UCLA and Texas.

Host UH-Hilo, University of Hawaii and WAC teams Fresno State, Texas Christian and Texas-El Paso are also entered.

Among the individual standouts competing are the last two U.S. Amateur champions - David Gossett of Texas, who won last year, and Georgia Tech's Matt Kuchar, who won in 1998.

Playing for UCLA is former Punahou star Parker McLachlin.