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1 Hawaii team makes Far West finals

Host Hawaii advances one team into today's championship round of the 2003 Snickers US Youth Soccer Far West Regional Championships at the Waipio Peninsula Soccer Complex. California leads all states with 10 finalists, and the Sereno Golden Eagles of Arizona lead all soccer clubs with six teams still playing.

Hawaii's Hookalakupua 12-and-under girls earned a title shot by breaking a 2-2 overtime tie with Cal-North by penalty kick shootout.

The 212-team field has been narrowed to the top two teams in each age division, from 19-and-under through 12-and-under. Champions from 14-and-under and up will go on to the youth national championships.

Former All-State soccer player drowns

Soccer standout Charlie Chiswick, a 2001 Star-Bulletin second-team All-State selection, died Tuesday while free diving off Makapuu with his father. Chiswick was 20.

A memorial celebration is set for 7 p.m. Thursday at Hope Chapel Kaneohe Bay.

Chiswick, who was named the Oahu Interscholastic Association East Player of the Year after boosting the Knights to the division title in 2001, went on to play college ball at St. Andrew's Presbyterian in North Carolina. At St. Andrew's, Chiswick majored in business and would go on to win the Presidential Honor Roll award for academic achievement by a student-athlete.

This season he scored three goals and tallied three assists for the Knights before suffering a season-ending knee injury.

He had made a full recovery during the offseason, and was playing informally.

Maunalani in Junior Olympics final round

Maunalani advanced to today's championship round of the 14-and-under volleyball tournament at the Junior Olympics in Atlanta.

The team features four girls from Punahou School, and three each from Iolani and Kamehameha. Maunalani swept through the early rounds undefeated, winning three matches Wednesday, three more Thursday and two yesterday to make it into the Gold Division.

Maunalani earned a trip to the junior games by winning the Reno Fair Western Qualifier in April.

Punahou alums alive in beach volleyball

Punahou alums Stein Metzger and Kevin Wong finished second in one pool and fellow Punahou grad Sean Scott teamed with Todd Rogers to finish second in another, as both teams advanced yesterday in the Men's German Grand Slam of the Beach Volleyball World Tour.

Metzger-Wong will battle Ricardo Santos and Emanuel Rego of Brazil in today's round of 16. Scott and Rogers will face the tournament's top seed, Brazil's Benjamin Insfran and Marcio Araujo.

Hawaii Pacific softball signs a pair of players

Hawaii Pacific University has signed softball players Anuhea Young and Kara Wedemeyer.

Young was a Star-Bulletin second team All-State selection for Castle this spring. Wedemeyer, a grandniece of noted Punahou football star and mainland coach Charlie Wedemeyer, earned All-City and All-State honors at Prairie High in Washington.

"Anuhea and Kara are very good athletes and because of their athleticism they will vie for starting positions right away," said HPU co-coach Howard Okita.

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