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Hayashi, Iyoki are victors at Turtle Bay

Kevin Hayashi earned a 2-and-1 win over Beau Yokomoto yesterday to capture the Match Play Championship held on the Palmer Course at the Turtle Bay Resort.

Hayashi was 3 up after the first six holes thanks to a trio of bogeys by Yokomoto. Yokomoto rallied to win the next two holes, but Hayashi birdied the ninth to take a 2-up lead to the back nine.

By the time the first 18 holes of the 36-hole match were done, Hayashi had a 1-up advantage. The Big Island native held that lead through the next nine holes, winning three and losing three.

The par 3s proved to be the difference over the final nine, with Hayashi winning both -- one by par and the other by birdie to go 3 up. Yokomoto won the 16th, but his birdie putt on 17 came up short.

In the Senior Match Play, Mike Iyoki defeated Rich Fite 4 and 3 to secure the title. He and Fite were even after the first 18 holes, but Iyoki won four holes in a row (Nos. 8 through 11) to build an advantage Fite couldn't overcome.

Transpac's unlikely foreign entry races today

The 42nd Transpacific Yacht Race to Hawaii has a record number of foreign entries with nine, but none quite as unlikely as Francisco Guzman's J/145, Jeito, from Acapulco, Mexico.

"This was a crazy idea," said Guzman, who will start with the Division 3 and 4 boats today. He will follow the Cal 40s, Aloha classes and four Division 5 racers that began Tuesday and precede the final, fastest dozen yachts on Sunday.

At yesterday's morning roll call, Aloha-A boats were setting the pace, led by Lady Bleu II, and Roger and Brenda Kuske's Dynamique 62 from San Diego that averaged 7.6 knots to sail 211 miles over the previous 24 hours.

First-day leader Beautiful Day was 3 miles back, but still first in class on the projected corrected handicap time. Stan and Sally Honey's Cal 40 named Illusion, remained first overall and first in class, 33 miles behind Lady Bleu II.

Guzman, a 44-year-old Mexico City architect, bought his boat only a month ago, a few days after he and some friends had raced his J/120 at Acapulco.

"We were coming [back] to Mexico City when I started thinking about buying the boat, and suddenly a friend of mine said, 'Why don't you buy the boat and do the Transpac?'

"I said, 'That would be my golden dream. When is Transpac?' Suddenly, everything happened. It was a miracle to do a whole Transpac organization in 35 days. It's a record."

Oahu Country Club Invitational is next week

The 40th annual Oahu Country Club Invitational begins Thursday and runs through July 12. A story yesterday erroneously said the Invitational was this weekend.

The tournament will feature 90 golfers vying for the 54-hole championship. The final round begins at 11 a.m. on July 12.

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