WAILEA, Maui -- Casey Nakama won the Maui Open after a three-hole playoff with Ron Castillo Jr. yesterday at the Wailea Emerald golf course. Nakama takes
Maui Open titleNakama parred the par-3 third hole as Castillo hit the bunker with his tee shot and couldn't save par. Both had finished with a 54-hole score of 213 as Nakama shot a final-round 74, while Castillo ended with a 70.
A stroke back at 214 with a closing 73 was Henry Sieradzki, who shared the first-round lead with Nakama.
The victory was worth $2,500 to Nakama, who won the event in 1992, also after a playoff.
SCHOLARSHIP RECIPIENT: Dana Dydasco, a Mililani High School halfback/forward, has accepted a full athletic scholarship with the California State University women's soccer program.
Dydasco was a second-team Oahu Interscholastic Association Western Division all-star and four-year member of the Trojan girls' varsity. She captained the team last season.
SAILING/SEAMANSHIP CLASSES: Flotilla 20, U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary, will conduct a free sailing and seamanship classroom course starting Monday through July 20.
The class will be held each Monday and Wednesday from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at McKinley High School, Shop 4. Enter from Pensacola Street, turn right into the large parking lot and look for the banner.
There is a $20 charge for a text and workbook. Registration is Monday at 6 p.m. For more information, call Wayne Bowers at 247-1776.
UH-HILO SUMMER PROGRAM OFF: The National Youth Sports Program hosted by the University of Hawaii-Hilo will not be held this year because of shortages of staff, facilities and resources, UHH coordinator Joey Estrella said.
The Vulcans hope to bring back the program in the near future.
KAUAI OPEN COMING UP: Dean Wilson will defend his Kauai Open golf title June 26-28 in a field of 200 amateurs and professionals that includes former Hawaiian Open champ David Ishii.
The tournament, with a $15,000 purse for the pros, will be played on three par-72 courses -- Princeville Prince, Poipu Bay Resort and Kauai Lagoons Kiele.
There are championship, A, B and women's flights. To register to enter, call the Kauai Open at 808-823-0599.
TWO ISLE CYCLISTS ON X-COUNTRY RIDE: James Brooks and Bob Mon of Hawaii will join more than 1,200 other riders this month in the GTE Big Ride Across America, largest cross-country bicycle ride in U.S. history.
The 3,200-mile ride from Seattle to Washington, D.C. will benefit the American Lung Association.
Brooks and Mon each is expected to raise $6,000 in pledges, with the money earmarked for lung health programs and services in Hawaii. Among the beneficiaries will be the Kokua Na Keiki Family Asthma Program, teen peer tobacco education projects and Open Airways for Schools.
To pledge a donation or learn more about the GTE cross-country ride, call Bill Short on Oahu at 537-5966, extension 304.