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Hawaii Beat

By Star-Bulletin Staff

Tuesday, October 10, 2000

Walter, Wenger
beat top seeds for
Dillingham titles

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Star-Bulletin staff

Two mild upsets highlighted the men's and women's singles finals in the 48th Dillingham Grand Prix Tennis Championships yesterday at Punahou School.

In both divisions, the No. 2 seed prevailed over the No. 1 seed.

Second-seeded Jesse Walter upset top-seeded Ryan Ideta, 6-3, 6-4, for the men's title, while second-seeded Nina Wenger edged top-seeded Tracie Chong, 5-7, 6-4, 7-5, for the women's title.

Wenger teamed with Stacy Hakikawa to capture the women's doubles title with a 6-3, 2-6, 6-3 win over Kimi Kaloi and Janelle Kaloi.

Ideta and partner Erik Vervloet took the men's doubles title by topping Antonio Garcia and Malino Oda, 6-3, 6-4.

HPU cruises to sixth straight

The Hawaii Pacific University women's soccer team won its sixth consecutive match by crushing Northwest Nazarene, 7-1, yesterday at Atherton Field on HPU's Windward Campus.

The Crusaders (2-9-2) opened the scoring at 23 minutes on a goal by Emily Schrepple.

The Sea Warriors (10-5-0) responded with four goals at two-minute intervals. Amanda Rodrigues scored at 27 and 29 minutes, Jill Fujimoto hit the nets at 31 minutes and Jannicke Snildal canned a header at 33 minutes.

Taryn Geolina, Hanna Olofsson and Snildal connected for second half goals.

Liane Watanabe assisted on four of HPU's scores.

Kiteboarding contest on Maui

The second annual Red Bull King of the Air kiteboarding contest starts today and runs through Sunday's final at Hookipa Beach on Maui.

Kiteboarding is similar to windsurfing, but instead of a sail, kiteboarders use a 15-foot traction kite attached to a 100-foot line. The competitors launch themselves into the air holding onto a boom (handlebar) which is attached to the kite.

According to organizers, kiteboarders reach speeds of up to 30 mph and heights of up to 60-feet.

Flores earns WAC honors

University of Hawaii Wahine soccer player Veronica Flores was picked as Western Athletic Conference Player of the Week.

Flores, who returned to her starting striker position after filling in as goalie, led the team to a 2-0 record last week.

She scored two goals, one in a 3-1 victory over Central Washington and one the game-winner in a 4-0 win over Nevada. She also had the game-winning assist against Central Washington.

A 1999 All-WAC striker, Flores is second on the team in points with eight and she is among the conference leaders in assists with four.

UH sailors finish third

The University of Hawaii coed sailing team finished third out of 15 teams last weekend at the Stoney Burke Intersectional in Treasure Island, Calif.

UH's Matt Megla and Jennifer Warnock earned 54 points for a second place finish in the A Division.

In the B Division, Steve Brown, Will Edwards and Sarah Hitchcock finished fourth with 59 points.

Pampulov captures singles crown

First-year Hawaii Pacific player Matey Pampulov beat teammate Jan Tribler for the singles title and Tribler teamed with Wojtek Bratek to take the doubles crown at the International Tennis Association West Region Championships at Pomona, Calif., last weekend.

Pampulov beat Tribler, HPU's No. 1 singles man last year, 6-2, 6-2 in the championship match.

Tribler and Wojtek topped Andrew Makarevitch and Eddie Merc of BYU-Hawaii, 6-4, 2-6, 6-1, in the doubles final.

All three Sea Warriors advanced to the ITA small college championships Oct. 19-22 at Memphis, Tenn.

Hawaii women in nationals

Howard Tacub Tennis, a women's team from Hawaii, will compete in the USTA League Tennis 3.5 nationals Oct. 12-15 at Tucson, Ariz.

Team members are captain Karen Hamauchi, Clare Brady, Lani Fukimoto, Lynn Hay-Roe, Renee Ishida, Janet Ogawa, Mellvia Kawashima, Rennie Matsumoto, Lee Rombaoa and Nila Stalek of Honolulu, Lucy Bryant of Kailua, Francine Crail, Sandy Nakashima and Immaculate She of Waipahu, Wanda Takahashi of Kaneohe and Pattimarie Yoza of Aiea.

Football Fever winner perfect 10-0

The Nuuanu resident wins $500 weekly prize

Aaron Chow went against the odds ... and won $500.

Chow, of Nuuanu, had a perfect 10-0 ballot in last week's Football Fever Contest.

The best that any of the Fever panel could muster was 8-2, turned in by Frank B. Shaner of KINE, KITV's Dan Meisenzahl and the Star-Bulletin's Randy Cadiente.

All ballots are eligible for the grand prize of a year's rental of a Ford Mustang convertible, courtesy of Thrifty Car Rental.