Hawaii Beat
Star-Bulletin staff
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UH football road tickets available
Starting tomorrow, ticket order forms will be made available to the public for Hawaii's road football games at Florida and Oregon State this fall.
The forms will be available online at www.hawaiiathletics.com or by calling the UH Athletics ticket office at 956-4483. Ticket supplies are limited, with a maximum of four per person.
The Warriors open their season against the Gators at The Swamp on Saturday, Aug. 30, and visit the Beavers two weeks later Saturday, Sept. 13.
4 speakers at Quarterback Club
Punahou athletic director Tom Holden, Buffanblu baseball coach Eric Kadooka, Honolulu Marathon Clinic chairperson Rosemary Kyte and Pacific Business News director of advertising Mimi Beams are set to speak at tomorrow's weekly Honolulu Quarterback Club luncheon at the Pagoda Hotel Main Ballroom.
Holden will discuss his school's placement as Sport's Illustrated's No. 1 high school athletic program in the country, while Kadooka led the Buffanblu to their fifth straight HHSAA championship last month.
The luncheon begins at 11:30 a.m. with the main program at noon. The general public is welcome.
Ching's goal enough for Dynamo
HOUSTON » Kamehameha graduate Brian Ching scored his third goal of the season to lead the Houston Dynamo to a 1-0 win over the New York Red Bulls last night.
Ching scored in the 68th minute, and Tony Caig made the lead stand up with three saves to earn his first career MLS shutout.
Houston (3-3-5, 14) has rebounded from an 0-2-3 start to go 3-1-2 in its last six games. New York (3-3-3, 9 points) has lost two in a row after a five-game unbeaten streak. The Red Bulls had two chances to tie late, but Danleigh Borman's shot in the 89th minute went wide left, and Chris Leitch's header in the 93rd minute went high.
Kaufman, Weaver sixth
Hawaii's Amber Kaufman and Meghan Weaver placed sixth in their events at the NCAA West Regional Track and Field Championships yesterday in Northridge, Calif.
Kaufman cleared 5 feet, 91/4 inches to tie for sixth in the high jump. Teammate Emily Sheppard placed ninth after clearing 5-71/4.
Weaver posted her best finish in four regional appearances in the shot put with a throw of 51-21/4.
Annett Wichmann finished ninth in the javelin at 151-8.
UH tallied 7.5 points, good for 18th in the team standings.
Wichmann has already qualified for the NCAA Championships in the heptathlon. Kaufman is also likely headed to the meet set for June 11-14 in Des Moines, Iowa, thanks to her gold-medal performance at the Western Athletic Conference championships.
Combine draws 271 athletes
From near and far they came on a Saturday morning, football players prepared - in most cases - to show the world what they can do.
The seventh annual Pacific Islands Athletic Alliance football combine drew 271 athletes to Saint Louis' athletic complex. From Division I prospects to little-known underclassmen, they hit the weight room and the field as combine officials wielded stopwatches and clipboards.
Two athletes who didn't participate, Punahou's Manti Te'o and Dalton Hilliard, were able volunteers. So were recent graduates Solomon Koehler (Castle) and Mykenna Ikehara (Kamehameha).
Te'o already has 29 scholarship offers. Hilliard, at last count, has nine.