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PacWest adds four championships

The Pacific West Conference announced yesterday it will add four championships in men's and women's cross country and men's and women's golf for the 2004-05 year.

The move will give the PacWest nine championships, one short of new NCAA bylaws that a Division II conference must sponsor 10 championships to be recognized by the NCAA. The conference received a waiver to add the 10th sport by fall 2005.

Five of the six PacWest schools, including all four local schools, currently sponsor cross country. The sport had a conference championship until 2001, when 10 schools defected from the league.

Only Montana State-Billings and Western New Mexico sponsor men's and women's golf. UH-Hilo fields a men's team, while HawaiiPacific started a men's and women's club program this season.

In 2004, Western New Mexico will add men's and women's cross country, with BYU-Hawaii and Chaminade adding men's and women's golf and UH-Hilo sponsoring women's golf.

Degen, Judd highlight alumnae game

Dana Degen, Dee Wisneski, Kate Judd and Trisha Ramos are among the former standout players scheduled to compete for the alumnae team in today's exhibition game against Hawaii at the Rainbow Wahine Softball Stadium.

Also on the alumnae roster for the 5 p.m. game are Joyce and Rose Antonio, Alison Rapanot, Aiko Okamura, Kehau Cofran Aina and Dawn Hirayama. Chris Viernes, Richlyn Tada, Natalie Gonzales, Tyree Woodruff, Stacie Hirano and Kelley Hupp are also on the playing roster.

Admission is free. Parking is $3.

Bob Coolen, the 2003 Western Athletic Conference Coach of the Year, returns six starters and his entire pitching staff from the team that went 40-20, won the school's first WAC title and qualified for the NCAA Tournament.

The Wahine have a noon exhibition against Hawaii Pacific next Saturday. Hawaii opens the season with the Paradise Classic, Feb. 4-8, featuring BYU, Oregon State, Tennessee, Alabama-Birmingham and St. Mary's.

Former UH player hosting girls camp

Former Hawaii basketball player Fabio Ribeiro will be conduction a basketball camp for girls in first through eighth grades over spring break.

The cost is $125 for the March 22-27 camp to be held at Sacred Hearts Academy. The sessions run 8 a.m.- noon and will stress skills, fundamentals and nutrition.

The camp is open to players of all levels of experience and ability. For more information, contact Ribeiro at 258-2982.

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