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Hula Bowl and Aloha Stadium officials meet

Hula Bowl president Mark Salmans met yesterday with Aloha Stadium officials, including stadium manager Eddie Hayashi, and department heads about possibly playing the 60th edition of the college football all-star game there Jan. 21, 2006.

The stadium requires a financial deposit before it can commit to hosting the event.

"At this point there's no deposit, but the date remains open," stadium spokesman Patrick Leonard said. "We provided the Hula Bowl with information so they can do an expense analysis and determine whether to move forward."

Salmans is working on securing sponsorship, including hopefully a title sponsor, he said. But the lack of one would not necessarily mean no Hula Bowl in 2006, he added.

"We will move forward now," Salmans said. "It was a good meeting. I did not leave discouraged."

Salmans is moving the game from Maui. Former owners Lenny and Marcia Klompus moved it there eight years ago. It was previously played at Honolulu Stadium and Aloha Stadium on Oahu.

UH sailing ends run at nationals

The University of Hawaii coed sailing team's hopes of winning a national championship were dashed yesterday when they finished day two of the Intercollegiate Sailing Association Team Racing Championships in eighth place with a 4-8 mark at Lake Travis in Austin, Texas.

The Rainbows completed the first round-robin rotation with a 2-5 mark and were at 2-3 in the second round-robin rotation before competition was suspended for the day. Second-round competition resumes today with UH facing Hobart/William Smith and Dartmouth, with no chance of UH advancing to today's final round.

Four Rainbow Wahine named All-Americans

Four University of Hawaii water polo athletes were named to 2005 American Water Polo Coaches Association All-American teams yesterday, more than in any previous season.

Leading goal scorer Monika Kruszona and fellow freshman Iefke Van Belkum topped the list with second-team honors, while senior Beth Novick picked up her second straight third-team award and sophomore goalie Meike De Nooy earned honorable-mention distinction.

Four Hawaii athletes awarded MPSF honors

University of Hawaii senior outside hitter Matt Bender was the sole Warrior named to the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation Men's Volleyball Academic All-Conference team yesterday.

Also joining Bender on the list of student-athletes are: Cal State Northridge redshirt freshman outside hitter Isaac Kneubuhl (Kamehameha '02 of Pukalani, Maui), University of the Pacific senior outside hitter Bryson Metz (Kamehameha '01 of Aiea) and Pepperdine University senior libero James Ka (Kamehameha '00 of Hilo, Hawaii).