Hawaii Beat

By Star-Bulletin Staff

Saturday, January 30, 1999

Arafiles,
Robinson honored

Hawaii defensive back Damien Arafiles and quarterback Dan Robinson have been named to the fall sports Academic All-Western Athletic Conference team.

Arafiles, a senior majoring in zoology, had a 3.49 grade point average through the fall semester. Robinson, a junior biology major, had a 3.69 GPA.

Joyce leads Seasiders
over Simon Fraser

Thomas Joyce nailed five 3-pointers and scored 19 of his game-high 25 points in the second half as the host Brigham Young University-Hawaii Sea-siders (9-10), 3-4 PacWest) downed the Simon Fraser Clan (5-13, 4-7), 81-73, last night.

David Evans added 22 points for BYUH.

Dave Wahl had 21, Andrew Kwiatkowski 20 and Richard Anderson 19 for Simon Fraser.

ALEXANDER WINS BOUT: At St. Louis, Honolulu's Eric Alexander knocked out NABO welterweight champion Doug Gray of Yonkers, N.Y., in the second round of a nontitle fight last night.

Alexander, out of Kakaako Boxing Club, is the Hawaii state welterweight and junior middleweight champion. A rematch with Gray for the belt is tentatively scheduled for March.

CLUB SPEAKERS: Guest speakers at the weekly luncheon of the Honolulu Quarterback Club Monday are Rainbow baseball coach Les Murakami, Hawaii-Hilo baseball coach Joey Estrella and Rainbow men's basketball coach Riley Wallace. Lunch at the Pagoda Restaurant is served at 11:30 a.m. The program begins at noon. The public is invited.

SPIKE DYKES AT FOOTBALL CLINIC: Texas Tech football coach Spike Dykes has replaced former Oregon State coach Mike Riley, now coaching the San Diego Chargers, in the Nike Hawaii Football Clinic, which will take place Feb. 26-28 at the Turtle Bay Hilton Hotel.

Other head coaches scheduled to conduct the clinic include Hawaii's June Jones and USC's Paul Hackett.

For more information, call Rick Sakata at 775-8162.