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Hawaii Beat

By Star-Bulletin Staff

Saturday, February 3, 2001

Livai gets state
coaching honor

By Ken Sakamoto, Star-Bulletin
Siuaki Livai of Kahuku was named Hawaii High School
coach of the year today at the Topps NFL Experience
luncheon at Aloha Stadium. Kahuku defeated St. Louis High
School Dec. 1 to take the state championship.

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Brown rallies to win
isle pro tour event

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Star-Bulletin staff

KAILUA-KONA -- Casey Brown, a 5-foot-7, 160-pound mighty mite from Fort Smith, Ark., shot a 2-under-par 70 in yesterday's final round to win Pro Tour Hawaii's $100,000 golf tournament at the Big Island Country Club.

Brown pocketed $18,000 after winning the 72-hole event by two strokes at 11-under 277.

He began the day two-shots behind Alan Zimmerman of Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.,who had led throughout.

Zimmerman, opened up a four-shot lead after 11 holes but double-bogeyed the 15th, giving Brown an opportunity that he seized on the finishing holes.

Zimmerman shot 74--279, falling into a tie for second place with Big Island resident Kevin Hayashi.

Hayashi started the final round eight shots off of the lead, but fired a closing 66.

Lions defeat Vulcans

Three Loyola Marymount pitchers scattered eight Hawaii-Hilo hits as the Lions beat the Vulcans, 6-1, in a college baseball game at Hilo's Wong Stadium last night.

Tommy Perez and Jeff Walker homered for the Lions.

Kaliko Oligo and Keola Park each had two hits for UH-Hilo.

BYUH duo ousted

BYU-Hawaii's Petra Gaspar and Tagifano So'onalole were beaten by Laura Granville and Gabriela Lastra of Stanford, 6-4, 6-4, in the women's doubles semifinals of the Rolex National Intercollegiate Indoor Tennis Championships last night at Farmers Branch, Texas.

The BYUH team qualified for the Division I tournament by winning the doubles title in the Rolex National Small College Championships last fall.

Stewart bodysurfing victor

Mike Stewart won the 2001 Pipeline Bodysurfing Classic at Ehukai Beach Thursday.

Abe Lerner was second and Todd Sells third.

HPU is team to beat

The Hawaii Pacific softball team was the unanimous choice to repeat as Pacific West Conference Pacific Division champion in voting by the division's six coaches.

Western New Mexico was the No. 2 pick, followed by Hawaii-Hilo, Chaminade, BYU-Hawaii and Montana State-Billings.