UH’s Roberts and Farr in
top form in WAC diving

Maggie Roberts and Sarah Farr established themselves as the top divers in the Western Athletic Conference yesterday, but Hawaii finished last in the six-team conference swimming and diving championships at San Antonio.

Farr won the 3-meter dive with a score of 487.7 while Roberts took second with a score of 479.3. Roberts also took second in platform diving, finishing seven points behind San Jose State freshman Tracy Harkins. Roberts took three silver medals home from the championships after finishing second in the 1-meter event.

Roberts was named the WAC co-diver of the year with Katie Oiness of Nevada after the meet and Nevada coach Mike Brown was named the Diving Coach of the year.

Southern Methodist won the team title with 828 points, easily better than second place Nevada's 757.

Katia Sarakatsani placed fifth in the 200 breast stroke and Morgan Hoesterey was seventh.

Men take second: The Hawaii men's swim team finished a distant second to Southern Methodist at the national Independant Conference Championships yesterday.

SMU scored 923 points to Hawaii's 567 in the seven-team meet.

Kurt Boehm won the 200 yard butterfly for the Warriors and Cheyne Bloch finished first in the 200 yard breast stroke. Both times set pool records.

Eric Lesnewsky finished second in the 1650 yard freestyle.

UH took third behind SMU and Oakland University in the 400-yard free relay. Anders Jonsson and Konstantin Dubrovin teamed up with Boehm and Bloch for what would have been a record time had SMU not broken it.

Long Beach hands UH worst softball defeat

The Hawaii softball team suffered its worst loss in school history yesterday, getting shelled by Long Beach State 17-2 at the Hillenbrand Invitational at Tucson, Ariz.

The Wahine were coming off a 3-2 win in 10 innings over Southern Mississippi earlier in the day.

Sheri Oronez went the entire way in the first game and got the win when Kate Judd doubled Stacie Hirano in from second. Judd also hit a two-run homer in the first inning.

Oronoz scattered seven hits over 10 innings, striking out nine and walking just one.

Melissa Coogan and the bullpen were betrayed by their defense in the second game.

Coogan gave up five runs in two innings and Shannon Tabion, allowed three runs in 113 innings. Then it got really ugly.

Paula Blanning took over for Tabion, getting one out and giving up nine runs on six hits. None of Blanning's runs were earned though, as the Wahine committed as many errors (4) as they had hits.

Hawaii's previous record for runs given up was set in 1986, when the Wahine gave up 15 to Oklahoma State.

UH (11-10) has now lost all five meetings with Long Beach State this season and the Wahine have lost five of the past seven games overall.

Vulcans win two more: Leinani Hashida drove in the winning run as Hawaii-Hilo beat Montana State-Billings 1-0 yesterday at Hilo. The Vulcans won the second game of the doubleheader 12-0.

Kristine Kahoalii won her fifth game of the season with a four hit shutout in the first game while Taysha Anderson won her fifth with a five-hit shutout. The pitchers are a combined 10-1 this season for the Vulcans (15-2, 6-0).

The Yellow Jackets are 0-14 and 0-12.

UH wins first water poloconference game

The Hawaii women's water polo team got its first conference win of the season yesterday, beating Pacific 5-2 at Stockton, Calif.

Karin Van Hoff scored three goals -- two in the second quarter -- as the Wahine built a 4-0 lead at halftime and made it stand up by shutting out the Tigers in the fourth quarter. UH is 1-1 in the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation.

After dispatching Pacific, the Wahine (7-4) beat nonconference foe UC Davis 8-7 with a four-goal surge in the final quarter.