ASSOCIATED PRESS Hawaii's Sunny Garcia surfed to the finals of the Rip Curl Pro at Bell's Beach in Australia.

Irons outsurfs Garcia

Kauai's Andy Irons beat Sunny Garcia 24.45-22.65 to win an all-Hawaii finals at the Rip Curl Pro surfing event at Bell's Beach in Australia yesterday.

Garcia scored a 9.25 for the second-best ride of the tournament, just behind Mark Occhilupo's 9.5 earlier.

Irons won $30,000 to leave Garcia with $16,000.

The semifinals were not even competitive, with Garcia beating Daniel Wills 24.9-15.1 and Irons taking out Occhilupo 21.25-10.25.

Vulcans swept on first day of tourney

The Hawaii-Hilo softball team dropped the first three games of the Div. II Tournament of Champions at Modesto, Calif., yesterday.

The Vulcans (28-14) lost 3-1 to Central Washington, 4-2 to St. Martin's and 2-1 to Western New Mexico.

Sea Warriors split: The HPU softball team beat Western Oregon 6-1, but lost to Cal State-Bakersfield 4-1.

Mallory Anderson lost to the Roadrunners for the third time in her career.

Hood throws another: The Brigham Young-Hawaii softball team ended a six-game losing streak by stomping Occidental College 12-0 yesterday in Los Angeles.

Hood threw her fourth shutout of the season.

Seasiders waiting for duel top rankings

The Brigham University-Hawaii tennis teams both swept Armstrong Atlantic yesterday, with the men winning 5-0 and the women winning 5-1 in Pensacola, Fla.

Both teams are undefeated this season, with the men No. 1 at 20-0 and the women No. 2 at 19-0.

The women's ranking may change though, as Armstrong Atlantic went into the match No. 1 before being taken apart by BYUH.

"The girls in their hearts believed that it (No. 1) was just another number," BYUH coach David Porter said. "It does signify that we are back, but it's not now that counts, it is just to get us ready for the tournament. They know that."

The men also won in their usual dominating fashion, capturing all three doubles and not losing a single set in singles. Peter Madarassy was the most impressive, sweeping Dale White 6-0, 6-0.

Both teams play Ouachita Baptist tomorrow before returning home to take on Chaminade in the regular-season finale Wednesday.

Sea Warriors sweep doubles: The Hawaii Pacific women's tennis team beat UC Davis 7-2 yesterday.

They swept the three doubles matches and won four of the six singles.

A HANDSHAKE FROM UP HIGH

CRAIG KOJIMA / CKOJIMA@STARBULLETIN.COM University of Hawaii men's basketball coach Riley Wallace received a proclamation from Gov. Ben Cayetano yesterday.

Dragon boats to race off Ala Moana

Three ferocious Chinese Dragons will race through the waters off Ala Moana Beach Park as part of the 7th Annual AT&T Hawaii Dragon Boat Festival on August 3-4.

But they can't race if they don't have anyone to paddle.

The annual affair is one of three major Chinese holidays, along with Chinese New Year and Mid-Autumn Festival.

Each boat requires 18 paddlers, to sign your group up for qualifying, call Gifford Chang at 951-0350 or Del Wong at 531-3526.

The entry fee is $200 until July 1, when it rises to $425.

Komine gives up 3 runs to Oklahoma in loss

Kalani standout Shane Komine gave up three runs in a 5-3 loss to Oklahoma yesterday at Lincoln, Neb.

Komine is 18-0 at home in his career, but allowed three runs on eight hits in423 innings in front of the largest crowd to see a Cornhusker home game (5,600).

Komine stuck out eight and walked two in his shortest outing of the season, but was not involved in the decision because Nebraska came back form a 3-1 deficit when he left.

Jason Fransz, who went 4-for-5 and pair of RBIs, chased Komine in the fifth inning.