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Hawaii Beat

By Star-Bulletin Staff

Wednesday, April 26, 2000

Garcia takes
Rip Curl surf title

Hawaii's Sunny Garcia, the current ASP ratings leader, won the Rip Curl Pro surfing title for the third time, defeating Brazil's Flavio Padaratz in today's final near Victoria, Australia.

Garcia, who collected $15,000 for the victory, is on the biggest roll of his pro surfing career.

He won the first World Championship Tour event of the year, the Billabong Pro, at Queensland, Australia, after pocketing the $50,000 first prize in the ASP specialty Da Hui "Shoot-Out" in Hawaii. That came on the heels of his fourth Triple Crown of Surfing title in Hawaii last December.

Wahine in nationals

The eighth-ranked University of Hawaii women's water polo team has received an at-large bid to the Collegiate National Championships May 5-7 at Indiana University.

The Wahine are 19-14 overall, 3-6 in the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation.

WAC honors to Degen

University of Hawaii Wahine softball player Dana Degen has been named the Western Athletic Conference Player of the Week for the third time this season.

Degen, a senior catcher from San Bernardino, Calif., batted .364 (8-for-22) in six games last week. She had a grand slam and a three-run homer in one game against No. 18 Oregon.

Wahine fourth in WAC golf

Hawaii finished fourth in the six-team Western Athletic Conference Women's golf championship yesterday at Broken Arrow, Okla.

The Wahine were 25 strokes behind first-place Tulsa, which edged TCU by two shots for the team title.

Medalist honors went to TCU's Angela Sanford, who closed with a 2-under 70 and was the only golfer to break par for 36 holes at 142.

UH's Melissa Shintani (78 - 155) and Linda Appelblad (78 - 156) finished in ties for ninth and 12th.

Chinen speedway winner

James Chinen won the Sprint Car featured main event at the Hawaii Motor Speedway last Saturday night.

Albert Ternora Sr. captured the Super Modified gold and Robert Chinen took the Super Stock main event.

In the Mini Modified final, Kelly Chinen took first place while Shawn Ternora finished atop the Mini Stock division.

O'Toole scores two for U.S.

Former University of Hawaii swimmer Maureen O'Toole scored two goals as the U.S. women's national water polo team beat the Czech Republic, 12-3, Monday for a 2-0 start in the World Women's Olympic qualification tournament at Palermo, Italy.

UH No. 8 in volleyball

Hawaii, which finished its season at 19-10 with a loss Saturday to top-ranked USC, slipped one notch to eighth in the USA Today/AVCA Coaches Top 15 men's volleyball poll released yesterday. The Trojans (22-4) received 14 of the 16 first-place votes. No. 2 Pepperdine (21-4) got the other two.