Finegan wins
WAC award

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Hawaii shortstop Brian Finegan has been named the Western Athletic Conference Player of the Week along with Rice pitcher David Aardsma.

Finegan hit .615 in four games for the Rainbows, helping them to win all four. He has hit safely in all seven games this season and leads the 'Bows with a .458 batting average.

"Actually it was the furthest thing from my mind," Finegan said. "Someone mentioned that I could possibly win it and I thought 'That's awesome, that would be quite an honor.' The bottom line is that it means we are winning, though. That is really all that matters."

Finegan's start earned him a promotion from the ninth spot in the batting order to the leadoff spot, where he spent his career at Cuesta Junior College. It doesn't necessarily mean he will stay in the spot, even though Shafer Magana is 1-for-14 in the top spot this season and has combined with Isaac Omura to go 2-for-22.

"We'll see how that goes," Trapasso said. "It was a one-game deal because we wanted to move some guys around and needed a leadoff guy. We'll have to take a look at it and see, he can certainly handle the leadoff spot but we consider the nine hole the second leadoff spot anyway."

The Rainbows are 6-1 this season and take on Wichita State this weekend.

Learn to play the fastest game on foot

Hawaiian Islands Youth Lacrosse will be holding a free clinic Sundays from 1-3 p.m. at Central Oahu Regional Park in Waipio.

The organization runs a league for boys and girls from March until June, with registration held every Sunday before the clinics.

Contact Bonnie Helsley at 681-5394 or Mark Brown at 685-1773 for more information.

Wahine waste Coogan's effort with road split

A day after shutting out No. 3 California, Melissa Coogan threw another gem, not giving up an earned run over seven innings to lead the Hawaii softball team over Southern Utah 3-1 at Las Vegas yesterday, but dropped the nightcap 5-2 against Nevada Las Vegas.

The Wahine fell to 6-6, while the Lady Rebels (6-10) and the Thunderbirds (3-7) still have losing records .

Seasiders sweep 'Swords: At Laie, Lisa Hansen and Echo Hatch started the Seasiders' (4-3, 2-0 PacWest) season undefeated, taking turns shutting out the Silverswords (2-4, 0-2).

Sea Warriors split: At Kaneohe, Hawaii Pacific (5-1) dropped its first game of the season, losing 3-0 to Simon Fraser (1-1) after beating the Clan 4-1.

Broadfoot knocked out of National Junior Open

Second-seeded Lindsay Nelson knocked out Punahou's Jessica Broadfoot yesterday 6-1, 6-2 in the girls singles main draw of the USTA National Junior Open at the Central Oahu Regional Tennis Center.

Nelson eliminated No. 9 seed Kimberly Kaloi 6-2, 6-0 in the round of 16. Also advancing to the semifinals were No. 3 seed Tarakaa Bertrand, No. 8 Emma Taylor and top seed Anne Yelsey, who took out seventh seed Tara Simpson 7-5, 6-4.

On the boys side, Erick McKean finally stopped Shantanu Dhaka 7-5, 6-1. Dhaka had knocked out top seed Christopher Rasmussen in the round of 16.

The match drawing the most fans was the girls 18 doubles match against local tennis players Broadfoot and Julienne Yamamoto against Heidi Kaloi and Chloe Bihag. In a point-for-point battle, Kaloi and Bihag finally prevailed, taking the 10-point super tiebreak 9-8 (5).

Wilton is QB Club's Coach of the Year

Hawaii men's volleyball coach Mike Wilton was named the 2002 George Archer Coach-of-the-Year at the Honolulu Quarterback Club's 56th annual Banquet of Champions last night at the Pacific Beach Hotel.

Wilton was also the outstanding male sports person of 2002.