Star-Bulletin Staff
Hawaii still swimming in second place
The Hawaii men's swimming and diving team trails Southern Methodist by 28 points with one day remaining at yesterday's National Independent Conference championships at Rochester, Mich.Peter Thew broke school records in the 200-meter freestyle and 100-meter backstroke, winning both events. Cheyne Bloch and Andrew Affleck also broke individual school records.
Wahine hanging around: At San Antonio, Yan Chen secured her second individual medal of the WAC championships but the second-place Hawaii women's swimming and diving team lost ground to SMU, trailing by 141 points.
The Rainbow Wahine amassed 484 points with one day of competition remaining and trail No. 5 SMU by 141 points.
UCLA pounds Hilo in Game 2
UCLA left fielder Matt Thayer went 4-for-5 and hit for the cycle to knock out Hilo 14-1 in seven innings at Hilo yesterday.The Vulcans (4-16) scored a run in the bottom of the first inning before being shut down by Bruins pitcher Casey Janssen. After giving up a double to Kaliko Oligo to lead off the game, Janssen only surrendered one more hit the rest of the way.
Rainbow Wahine edge Arizona State
Malia Tarayao and Kristy Bagnall each scored in the fourth quarter to give the Hawaii water polo team a 4-3 win over Arizona State yesterday in Tempe, Ariz.Sophomore goalie Leanna Hahn shut out the Sun Devils in the first half and Darcy Scott-Hosaka broke open the scoring at 4:52 in the second half. No. 10 Hawaii improved to 5-5, 2-3 in the MPSF while No. 16 Arizona State fell to 6-7 and 0-1.
Hawaii way behind in WAC track championships
Freshman Kelly Young finished fifth in the 800-meter preliminaries and helped Hawaii to a sixth-place finish in the distance medley at the Western Athletic Conference Indoor Track Championships at Boise, Idaho, yesterday.The Rainbow Wahine are in last place at the meet with one day to go, scoring only four points. Fresno State is right above Hawaii in eighth place with 10.5 points and Nevada leads with 74.
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