3 Hawaii players added
to East-West Shrine Game

Linebackers Chris Brown and Pisa Tinoisamoa and offensive lineman Vince Manuwai are all-stars more than two months before the college football season begins.

The Hawaii players have accepted invitations to play in the East-West Shrine Game next January in San Francisco.

"It's great for them," UH coach June Jones said. "Every year we seem to move up a little bit in this kind of honor. It's a good sign for the program."

Scott and Rogers advance to pool play

BERLIN >> Former Hawaii volleyball player Sean Scott and partner Todd Rogers won two qualifying matches yesterday to advance to today's main draw pool play of the $150,000 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour season opener.

Scott and Rogers, seeded 11th, are one of two U.S. teams in the 32-team competition. The other is the No. 29-seeded duo of Scott Davenport and Carl Henkel.

The FIVB men's season opener features a "new" format with the 32 teams competing initially in eight pools of four teams each. The top two teams from each of eight pools then advance to the 16-team single-elimination bracket that has two rounds tomorrow. The semifinals and medal rounds are Sunday.

Yesterday, Scott and Rogers defeated Richard Kogel and Sander Mulder of the Netherlands 21-16, 21-17, and Switzerland's Marcel Gscheidle and Bernhard Vesti 21-14, 21-16.

Also competing in this event is former UH player Nikolas Berger and partner Clemens Doppler.

BYUH's Gaspar honored for academics

Brigham Young-Hawaii tennis star Petra Gaspar was named to the Verizon College Division At-Large Academic All-American second team yesterday.

Gaspar had a 3.42 grade-point average in travel management.

The senior had earlier made the Pacific West Conference All-Academic Team and Region VII All-Academic Team.

Gaspar, who led BYUH to a national championship this year and a 132-2 record in four years, was the only athlete from the PWC to make the team.