Star-Bulletin Staff
Tulsa in the lead
at WAC women's golfThe University of Tulsa, behind Julie Tvede's 74, took a one-stroke lead into today's final round of the Western Athletic Conference women's golf championship at Kapolei Golf Course.
The defending champion Golden Hurricane carded a team 309 to finish yesterday's second round at 614. San Jose State and Nevada had aggregate scores of 310 to share second at 615.
Boise State was fourth at 638 and host Hawaii fifth at 641. Rounding out the field are UTEP (648) and SMU (660).
Tvede shot a 74 for the second consecutive today for a 36-hole 148. Nevada's Alana Condon and Tulsa's Suzie Fisher were tied for second at 151.
Tara Chappell had the low score for Hawaii at 79 -- 155 to share eighth with Nevada's Meghan Ingalls, Wahine Rene Krause and Bobbie Arakawa were tied for 14th at 158.
Kahuli's homer helps Vulcans split on road
SILVER CITY, N.M. >> Kayla Kahuli's three-run homer in the top of the sixth helped the Hawaii-Hilo softball team to a 9-4 win over Western New Mexico and a split of a Pacific West Conference doubleheader at the WNSU field.The Mustangs won Game 1 3-2 with a run in the bottom of the seventh. The Vulcans had tied it up in the top of the seventh on Erin Castillo's two-run home run.
The victory guarantees WNSU at least a share of the PacWest title. Hawaii-Hilo (27-16, 11-5) will finish its PacWest schedule Friday and Saturday at MSU-Billings.
HPU sweeps Biola: Kristin Fujii became Hawaii Pacific's career home run leader with a grand slam and the Sea Warriors swept a nonconference doubleheader against Biola, 9-3 and 4-0 in Kaneohe.
Fujii's grand slam came in the first inning of Game 1, giving her 11 homers. The old record was set by Karen Masuda in 1988.
HPU (28-20) finishes out the regular season against Chaminade with doubleheaders Saturday at the Palolo Recreation Center and Sunday at the HPU Windward field.
Huskies rout Vulcans in baseball game
SEATTLE >> The University of Washington baseball team blasted 13 hits off three Hawaii-Hilo pitchers defeat the Vulcans 10-2 yesterday.Hilo avoided the shutout with two runs in the ninth on RBI singles by Kevin Drever and Kaliko Oligo. The Vulcans, who dropped a doubleheader to UW Monday, fell to 8-33.
BYUH sweeps honors for WAC tennis
Brigham Young-Hawaii's Jan Krejci was named the Male Player of the Year and Adrienn Hegedus the Female Player of the Year in a vote by the conference tennis coaches.It was the second straight year the pair were awarded the top honors. This time, the sophomores from Hungary were unanimous choices.
BYUH's David Porter was named PacWest Coach of the Year after guiding the men's and women's teams to conference titles earlier this month.
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