Hula Bowl gets
top head coach

The 2002 Hula Bowl All-Star Football Classic will include the country's top national coach.

The recent USA Today/ESPN coaches poll ranked Division I-A's Florida Gators coach Steve Spurrier number one. He is set to stand on the sidelines at the 2002 Hula Bowl.

Oklahoma head coach Bill Stoops will also be on the Hula Bowl sidelines that will be held at Maui's War Memorial Stadium. Stoops, who led the Sooners to the national crown last year, is a former assistant of Spurrier's.

The Hula Bowl also kicked off a campaign offering engraved bricks to individuals, groups, clubs and businesses to help establish a new "Maui Wall of Honor." It will be built at the main entrance.

Oregon State's Dennis Erickson and Sonny Lubick of Colorado State will also coach.

Fresno State game time moved up 1 hour for ESPN

The University of Hawaii football game with Fresno State is set for Oct. 26 at 3 p.m. to accommodate a nationally televised broadcast on ESPN-TV. The university originally reported kickoff was set for 4 p.m.

"There was miscommunication with the Daylight Savings Time happening that weekend," UH athletic director Hugh Yoshida said in a release. "We just got clarification of the new game time today and it is going to be 3 p.m."

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Defending U.S. Open champion Sunny Garcia, above,
won his heat yesterday at Huntington Beach, Calif.,
joining other Hawaii surfers Andy Irons, Roy Powers
and Frederick Patacchia in the fifth round today. Hawaii's
Melanie Bartels made it to the semifinals of the women's draw.

Travis Lee to be honored by Quarterback Club

The Honolulu Quarterback Club will honor wrestler Travis Lee, the Sportsperson of the Month for July, at its meeting Monday at the Pagoda Hotel ballroom.

Star-Bulletin sports editor Paul Arnett will speak, as will masters' swimming champion Betty Ann Barnett Sellee and former Olympic swimmer Sonny Tanabe.

Lunch begins at 11:30 with the first speaker at noon. The public is invited.

Wheeler's "the Gulch" part of Base Race Series

The public can race across a unique bit of military history next Sunday by entering the United Services Organization's Base Race 5K or 10K event scheduled for August 12.

Both races traverse the Wheeler Army Air Field which was strafed by Japanese aircraft. The 10K's course also includes the runway which a few American planes lifted off from during the Japanese's December 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor.

For registration information contact Kelly L. Wilson at 656-2730.

Hawaii's Own

Benny Agbayani, Mets: The St. Louis and Hawaii Pacific alumnus made his claim to teams who may want to pick him up, doing his usual tough job against one of the National League's top pitchers -- Randy Johnson.

Agbayani tripled to deep centerfield in his only official at-bat against the Big Unit, raising his lifetime performance against the lefty to 3-for-7 (.429). Agbayani also walked twice in the game, but his teammates failed to drive him in. Of the five times New York batters reached base against Johnson, Agbayani accounted for three.

Agbayani has quietly put together a six-game hitting streak -- tying his season high -- hitting .471 (8-17) over that span.

Mike Fetters, Pirates: The Iolani graduate appeared in his first game as a Pirate, but he did not get a chance to close it out due to the 12-7 hurting the Rockies put on his new team.

Fetters pitched the ninth inning in relief of Josias Manzanillo, but immediately got into trouble when he allowed leadoff man Jeff Cirillo to single to right center and Todd Helton to follow with a single to left. Fetters nearly got out of the jam though, forcing Alex Ochoa to ground into a double play but allowing Cirillo to score.

Fetters then plunked Kimera Bartee with a pitch but stranded him at first when Jose Uribe grounded out to short.

Brandon Villafuerte, Rangers: The Big Island native did not get a chance to pitch in Fenway Park because of thunderstorms that postponed yesterday's game.