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Classification details to be discussed

Details of the Hawaii High School Athletic Association's first-ever classified state tournaments will be up for discussion at meetings involving high school athletic administrators tomorrow at the Oahu Interscholastic Association office.

The HHSAA's football committee will meet in the morning to discuss the new Division II tournament. A meeting regarding the softball and girls basketball tournaments is set for the afternoon.

Tomorrow's meetings are expected to cover the logistics of the tournaments -- including the tournament formats, the process of placing teams into the two divisions, the qualification requirements and dates of the events.

Proposals to create two-class state tournaments in football, softball and girls basketball on a one-year trial basis were approved by the HHSAA's executive board last month after first being passed by the Hawaiian Interscholastic Athletic Directors Association. The tournaments are scheduled to be held in the upcoming school year.

The football tournament format passed by HIADA called for the current eight-team tournament, instituted in 1999, to remain intact while adding a four-team Division II tournament.

When it passed the football proposal, HIADA also passed a measure to classify a girls sport. Both softball and girls basketball eventually gained the approval of the HHSAA executive board.

Rainbows finish third at Junior Olympics

PHOENIX >> The Asics Rainbows 17s finished tied for third in the Open Division as the U.S. Junior Olympic Boys Volleyball Championships concluded yesterday at the Phoenix Civic Center.

Asics, seeded 21st out of 36 teams, went undefeated in its first nine matches. The team fell to Vaqueros of Puerto Rico 29-27, 25-19 in the semifinals. Named to the all-tournament team were Ainoa Miyashiro (Kamehameha) and Corey Spence (Seabury Hall).

Other members of the team are Todd Blankenship, Tiff Wells, B.J. Takushi and Mike Contee (Iolani), Casey Walsh (Seabury), Kamu Kawaihalau (Waimea), Nick Fujii (Hawaii Baptist), Kyle Teves (Kealakehe), and Brandon Caban (Mililani).

In other medal results for Hawaii teams: The Hawaii All-Stars finished tied for third in the 18 open division. Named to the all-tournament team were Jonathan Charette and Max DeWolff. Molten Black took second in the 18 club division with Ryan Gonzales and Adam Tuifagu named to the all-tournament team.

The Outrigger 15s and Asics Rainbows 15s finished tied for third in the 15 club division. Named to the all-tournament team from Outrigger were T.J. Zabriskie and Kaohu Berg-Hee, while Charles Bell, Dre Kalakau and Riley Tang were chosen from Asics.

Pyewacket maintains lead in Transpac Race

Pegasuss 77 sailed the fastest and the farthest yesterday in the 42nd Transpacific Yacht Race to Hawaii, but the blistering performance still was not enough to pass Pyewacket for the lead in division one.

Roy E. Disney's Pyewacket logged 329 miles at 13.7 knots and moved into first place for the entire fleet. Pegasus sailed 338 miles at 14.1 knots but dropped to 27 miles behind.

Maatta and Jaross earn All-America honors

Hawaii Pacific tennis players Mikael Maatta and Gabor Jaross were named to the 2003 Intercollegiate Tennis Association All-America team.

Maatta was the No. 1 singles player for the nationally ranked Sea Warriors and had a 14-5 record in singles competition. Maatta also boasted a 17-3 record in doubles play and finished the season as the No. 3 player in the nation. Jaross, the ITA West Region Rookie of the Year, held a spectacular 13-1 record in singles play and was 11-5 in doubles. He finished the year ranked 22nd.

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