The Hawaii women's swimming team, unbeaten during the regular season, was in eighth place with 63.5 points after yesterday's opening round of the Western Athletic Conference Championships at Oklahoma City, Okla. Wahine swim team
eighth in WAC meetSMU took the first-day lead with 288.5 points, followed by Brigham Young (150.5) and Rice (134).
The UH 400-yard medley relay team of Heidi Hendrichs, Melanie Zauder, Jamie Dvorak and Eliza Werth set a school record of 3 minutes, 50.6 seconds while placing fifth in the final.
What would have been another school-record relay performance by the Wahine was wasted when they were disqualified for a bad exchange. It cost them 30 points.
Hawaii's J.P. Palmer, Brooke Morgan and Katie Williams finished seventh, ninth and 13th in the 1-meter diving event. Yvonne Corrigan and Werth were ninth and 11th in the 50 freestyle.
UH WATER POLO TEAM WINS: Karin Umemura scored four goals as the Hawaii water polo team whipped Washington, 16-6, yesterday in a homecoming match after nine straight on the mainland.
The Wahine (9-5), scored the first 11 in the match. The teams meet again at 6 p.m. today at the Duke Kahanamoku Aquatic Complex.
VULCANS EDGE JAPAN TEAM: Brandon Chaves tripled with one out in the bottom of the ninth inning and scored on Todd Jinbo's sacrifice fly to give Hawaii-Hilo a 3-2 exhibition baseball victory over Matsusaka of Japan last night at Hilo.
EWA, MANOA AJA WINNERS: Shawn Nakamura's three-run homer keyed a 10-run outburst in the third inning that carried Ewa to a 19-9 Oahu Senior AJA baseball victory over Waipahu last night at Hans L'Orange Park.
At Ala Wai Field, Alex Takemura cracked three hits and Mark Hirayama, Gordon Ishihiro and winning relief pitcher Chris Garnett each had two as Manoa beat Sheridan, 13-12.
ISLE MARTIAL ARTISTS ADVANCE: Melchor Manibusan and Egan Inoue advanced to the semifinals with two victories apiece and Hawaii teammate Baret Yoshida won his opening bout yesterday in the World Submission Wrestling Championships at Abu Dhabi, Saudi Arabia.
The tournament brings together the world's best ground fighters in jiujitsu, shooto, pankration, sambo, vale tudo, wrestling and judo.