Lyndi Frei and Summer George both tossed shutouts yesterday, helping Brigham Young-Hawaii to a doubleheader softball sweep of PacWest division leader Hawaii Pacific at Laie. Frei, George toss shutouts
Tami Layton's two-out single in the bottom of the seventh inning pushed the Seasiders to a 1-0 win in the opener. Frei and HPU's Jessica Parra each gave up four hits in the game one pitcher's duel.
BYUH then banged out 12 hits in game two on the way to a 9-0 win that was shortened by the mercy rule after two batters in the seventh inning.
The Seasiders and Sea Warriors meet again Wednesday at Hawaii Pacific.
Big Isle, Oahu win in AJA
Hawaii pounded out 14 hits and Klayford Nakaahiki went the distance yesterday to carry the Big Island past Kauai, 9-1, in the Americans of Japanese Ancestry Senior state baseball tournament at Aloha Stadium.Shayne Miura hit two home runs for the Big Island.
In the second game, Eugene Myers struck out seven, spacing seven hits over eight innings to lead Oahu to a 6-1 win over Maui. Maui's Mike Victorino had three hits.
BYU-Hawaii women roll
The Brigham Young University-Hawaii women's tennis team routed 22nd ranked Valdosta State, 9-0, to win the championship at the West Florida Classic in Pensacola, Florida yesterday.Chalking up their 97th consecutive win, the BYU-Hawaii women let only one Valdosta State player score more than two points in the nine matches.
Playing number one, Petra Gaspar trounced Valdosta's Aparna Sreenivasan 6-1, 6-1. The other matches went much the same including the 6-0, 6-0 trouncing Kellie Taguchi handed to VSU's Christen Clegg.
[HAWAII'S OWN]
A look at how the three major-leaguers from Hawaii fared in yesterday's games:Benny Agbayani, Mets: Batting leadoff, Agbayani went 1-for-4 and struck out twice as New York lost to Montreal, 10-0.
Mike Fetters, Dodgers: The Iolani graduate did not pitch against the Giants last night.
Chris Truby, Astros: Truby went 0-for-4 with a pair of strikeouts in a 5-3 loss to the Pirates.
[WE GET LETTERS]
University blew it by not considering Sakata
Well, UH succeeds in shooting itself in the foot again.The fact that Lenn Sakata did not even merit a second look for the baseball coaching position (Press Box, April 1) is a crying shame.
Everyone in the job market in the "real world" realizes that job descriptions are employment guidelines, not absolutes.
Only in the insulated world of academia are qualifications measured by theoretical research done and scholarly treatises published.
Lenn Sakata did not finish his degree, but he has a doctorate in baseball based on twenty-five years of playing and coaching experience.
These myopic nitwits would undoubtedly reject Bill Gates' application for a computer sciences position because he failed to finish his degree at Harvard.
Bob McFarland
Kailua
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[COMING THIS WEEK]
The Star-Bulletin will unveil a series of All-State teams, starting tomorrow and running through Thursday:Monday -- Boys basketball
Tuesday -- Softball
Wednesday -- Boys soccer
Thursday -- Girls soccer
[THE WORD ON THE STREET]
How do you feel about the possibility of the Aloha and Oahu bowls leaving Hawaii?Robert Wilcox
Kailua Retired
"It's okay with me (if the bowl games leave). I'm not a football fan. I suppose it affects the local economy but it doesn't bother me because I don't live on the local economy."Russell Tam
Kapahulu Legal assistant
"I don't think it's a good idea because it brings in so much money and the exposure toward the mainland."Dony Aldover
Honolulu
Retail
"If one of them were to leave, I'd rather (keep) the Aloha Bowl because it's been here for so long already. ... It's good to have those types of events. It's a tradition."Marie Aldover
Manoa
Hospital Worker
"It would be sad because we're not going to see the same caliber of players."Scott Henderson
Waikiki
Waiter
"I don't agree with that at all. The Aloha Bowl should be in Hawaii. I think it's wrong to take it out of here."
[WINNERS & LOSERS]
[WINNERS]
Chris Truby: Houston Astros third baseman and Damien Memorial High School graduate homered in each of his first three games.The outburst put Truby in position to join Mark McGwire and Willie Mays as the only players to hit homers in their first four games. But Truby went 0-for-3 in his fourth game, a 4-1 win over the Pirates.
Maryknoll baseball team: The Spartans scored two big upsets last week, beating St. Louis, 3-2, on March 31 for their first win of the season and following it up with a 7-2 spanking of Kamehameha last Friday.
Before putting together its winning streak, Maryknoll had lost its previous six games, being outscored 46-8 in the span.
[LOSERS]
High school sports: The student-athletes who make up the Oahu Interscholastic Association have been shut out of competition while the Hawaii State Teachers Association are out on strike.No games had been played since the strike began, and the cancellation of state tournaments in golf, tennis, track, baseball and girls basketball appears likely.
[TIMEOUT]
Name: Sherri WardAge: 50-plus
Position: Commissioner for Hawaii Ranger and Makule men's soccer leagues since 1975.
Why? To provide a place for people to play soccer year-round.
People would be surprised to know: "That I have a degree in fine arts and ceramics."
Back in 1975, Ward agreed to run the Ranger and Makule soccer leagues while the man who was in charge left for a year. He never returned ... and Ward never left the post.
"I'm sure there's other things I could have been doing all this time,'' she said. "But I really enjoy it. We're out there every weekend. Players bring their families to games, the kids grow up and come back and play in the leagues. It's an ohana.''
Ward is a fitness assistant at the Martinez Recreation Center at Schofield Barracks. She introduced indoor soccer to the base.
Ward never played soccer until after she moved here in 1967. She later helped start the Women's International Soccer Association (now the Women's Island Soccer Association).
"I can remember when there were just two women's teams,'' she said. "Then it grew to over 30. We also have women playing in the men's leagues.''
And she knows the sport will only continue to grow.
"We have thousands of kids playing AYSO,'' she said. "Those AYSO kids will grow up and need adult leagues.''
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