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Hawaii Beat

By Star-Bulletin Staff

Saturday, February 19, 2000

Okamura new baseball
coach for Crusaders

Wade Okamura is doubling his diamond duties.

Sacred Hearts Academy's varsity softball coach since 1983 and current athletic director is now also the varsity baseball coach at St. Louis School

Okamura, 44, replaces Vince Passas, who was the Crusaders' baseball coach for 10 years. Passas will continue to be offensive coordinator for the St. Louis football team.

Okamura is a graduate of St. Louis School and the University of Washington.

One of Okamura's assistants will be his father, Herb Okamura.

Since softball is a winter sport and baseball a spring sport, Wade Okamura will continue to coach the Lancers' softball team. He will also keep his athletic director duties and continue to run the physical education department at Sacred Hearts.

Also at Sacred Hearts, Dexter Kaiama is the new varsity basketball coach, replacing Byron Cheng.

Georgia Tech holds lead in Big Island golf tournament

After two days at the Taylor Made/Waikoloa Intercollegiate golf tournament at the Waikoloa King's and Beach courses, the University of Hawaii men's team is in 15th place, 26 shots behind leader Georgia Tech.

UH-Hilo is 23rd out of the 24 participating teams.

UH's Russ Nygard and Jaime Matsumura are in a cluster with six other golfers, tied for 25th at 2-over par 144.

Georgia Tech's Bryce Molder leads the pack with a 7-under par- 135.

Wahine win in water polo

The seventh-ranked University of Hawaii Wahine water polo team clubbed Loyola Marymount, 16-6, at Duke Kahanamoku Pool last night.

Karin Umemura lit up the 15th-ranked Lions for five goals and Lisa DeRossi added three more.

UH (3-1) led, 8-1, at halftime.

Seasiders struggle in softball

Brigham Young-Hawaii fell to 0-3 in the Koolau Softball Classic after losing a pair of games yesterday.

Hawaii Pacific, Hawaii-Hilo, Chaminade and Concordia (Calif.) are 1-0 after two days of the tournament, which is being played in Laie and at HPU.

The Seasiders fell to Azusa Pacific, 2-0, and Hawaii-Hilo, 9-3, yesterday.

Chaminade, powered by Anuhea Kekauoha's two home runs, shut out Azusa Pacific, 5-0.

The tourney runs through Monday.

Swim mark for UH's du Plessis

University of Hawaii newcomer Renate du Plessis set her second school swimming record in as many days in the King Kalakaua Invitational meet at Duke Kahanamoku Aquatic Complex.

The South African swimmer, who set a UH record for the 100-yard butterfly Thursday, swam the 100 yard backstroke in 56.37 seconds yesterday to set another school mark.

The program bid aloha to seniors Simon Thirsk, Jamie Dvorak and Joshua Gonzalez of the men's swim/dive teams and Jamie Dvorak, Kris Fukushima, Eliza Werth, J.P. Palmer and Katie Williams of the Wahine.

Wayne wins for Stanford

Junior right-handed pitcher Justin Wayne struck out a season-high 12 batters in a complete game, three-hit performance to give third-ranked Stanford an 8-2 victory over No. 12 Texas in a nonconference baseball game yesterday at the Cardinal's Sunken Diamond at Stanford, Calif.

Wayne, a Punahou graduate, improved his all-time record at Stanford to 19-1, the best winning percentage in Cardinal history. He is 3-0 this season with a 1.93 ERA.