PHOTO COURTESY UH-HILO ATHLETICS Wendy Layton leads the UH-Hilo softball team with three home runs this season.

Sing Chow
stings San Diego

---

Star-Bulletin staff

San Diego >> Leo Sing Chow and the Hawaii-Hilo softball team beat UC San Diego 5-3 in the first game of a doubleheader yesterday, but the Vulcans dropped the next game 3-0.

Sing Chow, a freshman from Kamehameha, has won her first 10 collegiate decisions. She pitched the complete game yesterday and drove in a run with a triple.

Leinani Hashida rapped out three hits for the Vulcans (20-7) while Claresa Asuncion collected two.

UCSan Diego improved to 13-15 when Stephanie Kurz held the Vulcans to four hits in the second game.

Hilo's Wendy Layton banged out a double and a triple but was stranded both times.

Wahine washed out:The Tar Heel Invitational in Chapel, Hill, N.C., ended a day early when rain cancelled competition yesterday.

Virginia was named the champion after winning its first two games. Hawaii finished the tournament 1-1 with a win over North Carolina and a loss to Virginia.

April Crowell made the all-tournament team after going 4-for-5 and being intentionally walked twice. Justina Kahaku was the only other Hawaii player to make the team.

Records fall at Rainbow Relays

The Rainbow Relays wrapped up yesterday, closing the book on the largest track and field meet at Cooke Field in more than 20 years with 473 competitors and 119 relay teams.

Six venue records were broken over the three days, highlighted by Eunice Barber's 13.34 in the 100-meter hurdles. Barber is ranked as the top Heptathlete in France.

Candice Baucham of UCLA broke a record with a triple jump of 12.86 meters and UCLA freshman Chelsea Johnson cleared 3.57 meters to set a record in the pole vault.

Three relay records also fell. UCLA now owns the mark for the sprint medley relay (1:476.44) and Chaminade's Hanson Hsu, Jeff Lim, Clint Imhofe and Joey Borreca broke the Cooke field record with a men's distance medley of 11:27.28. Hawaii's women beat UCLA by three hundredths of a second in the distance relay to set that record as well.

Wahine take second in Rainbow Challenge

The Hawaii water polo team finished second in the Rainbow Challenge at the Duke Kahanamoku Aquatic Complex yesterday.

The Wahine lost to Australia 7-2 in the championship match after going unbeaten through the first six matches of the tournament. Australia finished with a 5-0-2 record.

Kristy Bagnall was the only Hawaii player named to the all-tournament team.

Bareng among the best in the West

Former Moanalua wrestler Joey Bareng of San Francisco State won the 125-pound weight class in the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference and was named to the all-conference team for it last week.

Bareng, a junior, won his region but went 1-2 in the NCAA Div. II national championships.

Dickie, Kusutani win Tamanaha titles

Bob Dickie beat Christian Friis by more than two minutes to win the men's portion of the Norman Tamanaha 15K run yesterday.

Dickie ran the distance in 48 minutes, 39 seconds while Friis came in at 50:25. Abdeslam Naji finished third, 14 seconds behind Friis.

Sayuri Kusutani won the women's race by an even larger margin, finishing sixth overall at 55:29 to beat Kristi Markowicz's 58:46. Dolly Skeete was the third woman to finish, coming in at 1:01:40.