Hawaii Beat

By Star-Bulletin Staff

Saturday, November 6, 1999

UH swimming teams
off to splashy starts

The Hawaii women's swimming and diving team defeated Washington, Northern Arizona and UNLV and the UH men beat Wash- ington and UNLV yesterday in the Big West Shootout at Irvine, Calif.

The Wahine set school records of 1 minute, 25.46 seconds in the 200 medley relay and 1:35.10 in the 200 freestyle relay.

Nick Folker was a winner in three individual races and a relay for the UH men's team.

Abracadabra falls

U.S. teams Young America and AmericaOne and Italy's Prada had easy wins yesterday when racing resumed in the challenger series for sailing's America's Cup at Auckland, New Zealand.

Japan's Nippon team held on to defeat Hawaii's Abracadabra by 3 minutes, 29 seconds.

Academic honors

Twelve Hawaii small college athletes were named to the Pacific West Conference's men's soccer and women's volleyball academic all-conference teams this week.

The soccer players are Elias Akinaka, Glyn Drewery and Sam Tsukamoto of Brigham Young-Hawaii and Blagovest Stephanov, Claus Petersen, Elie Sauma, Iovo Stevanov and Roar Berg of Hawaii Pacific.

Volleyball honors went to BYUH's Ave Neria and Vanessa Valansi, Chaminade's Aileenmarie Arnold and HPU's Gisele Rocha.

HPU women soccer players named to the team were Janicke Snildal, who has a 4.0 grade point average, Sandy Chang, Kolca Andreas-Feeney, Kaua Aiu and Taryn Geolina.

Silva sets BYUH kills mark

Three of the islands' four NCAA Division II women's volleyball teams won their respective matches yesterday, all with sweeps.

Three-time All-American Arlete Silva hammered 15 kills and set a BYU-Hawaii career record to lead the top-ranked Seasiders past Montana State-Billings, 15-7, 15-0, 15-3, at Laie.

Silva broke the career kills record and now has 1,480. The Seasiders are 23-1 overall and 13-0 in the Pacific West Conference.

Second-ranked HPU downed Western New Mexico, 15-4, 15-8, 15-0, at St. Andrew's Priory Gym. The Sea Warriors improved to 22-2, 10-2.

Joan Lilio recorded 23 kills to lead Chaminade past visiting Alaska-Anchorage, 15-3, 15-13, 15-11. Chaminade improved to 13-9, 7-5.

Alaska-Fairbanks beat host Hawaii-Hilo, 10-15, 18-16, 15-9, 15-6.

Kamehameha wins playoff

The Kamehameha boys' varsity volleyball team defeated University High, 15-12, 7-15, 15-2, 15-2, at Mid-Pacific gym yesterday in a playoff for the ILH's second berth in the Nissan State Boys Volleyball Championship, which starts Nov. 11 on the Big Island.

Defending state champion Punahou earned the league's first spot, winning both rounds of the regular season with a 14-0 record.

Kamehameha was the first-round runner-up and University the second-round runner-up.

Windsurfing qualifiers

Maui's Josh Angulo was among seven windsurfing wildcards to advance through yesterday's trials in the Swatch Aloha Classic at Ho'okipa Beach, Maui.

The other qualifiers were Rick Vanderloom of Australia, Hisao Nakazato of Japan, Lalo Goya of Argentina, Jerome Bouldoires of Sweden, Quilfen Yann of France and American Jesse Brown.

HPU third in hoops poll

Pacific West Conference basketball coaches picked Hawaii Pacific to finish third behind Seattle Pacific and Central Washington in their preseason poll.

BYU-Hawaii tied Alaska-Anchorage for fourth in the balloting. Chaminade and Hawaii-Hilo were seventh and 12th, respectively.

Quarterback Club guests

BYU-Hawaii volleyball coach Wilfred Navalta, Damien football coach Mel Andres and Hawaii assistant football coaches Dennis McKnight and George Lumpkin will speak at Monday's Honolulu Quarterback Club luncheon at the Pagoda Hotel. Lunch starts at 11:30 a.m., the program at noon.

BMW driving school

The BMW car club of Hawaii will host its first high-performance driving school tomorrow from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Hawaii Raceway Park in Campbell Industrial Park. To reserve a spot, call Les Crine at 225-5605