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Jones, Vili highlight QB Club meeting

Hawaii football coach June Jones headlines the guest speakers at tomorrow's meeting of the Honolulu Quarterback Club. Jones will talk about the opening of spring practice. Former UH athletics director Paul Durham, Na Koa vice president Ben Yee and Warrior mascot Vili Fehoko will also speak.

The Quarterback Club will also name its sportsperson of the month after the program. The luncheon starts at 11:30 a.m. with the program following at noon.

Cal Poly SLO pounds Hawaii-Hilo twice

The Cal Poly San Luis Obispo baseball team swept a baseball doubleheader from Hawaii-Hilo in convincing fashion yesterday, 19-0 and 8-0 at Simmons Field in Kailua-Kona.

Six players had three hits each for the Mustangs in the five-inning first game, including Sam Herbert who had two doubles and a triple. The Vulcans managed two hits against Nolan Moser, a double by Jeremy Loque and single by Kahe Santos. Cal Poly-SLO scored 15 runs in the fifth inning.

Hilo (7-31) was two-hit again in the nine-inning second game, with Sean Tamura and Daniel Rhodes managing singles. Tony Saipe and Bud Norris did the pitching for the Mustangs (27-12-1), and Herbert had three more hits, including a double.

Ervin gets pair of wins for HPU: Josh Ervin pitched five innings of relief in the first game and then all seven innings of the second game as he got both pitching wins in Hawaii Pacific's 4-3, 8-4 doubleheader sweep at Cal State San Bernardino yesterday.

Geoffrey Say and Brandon Sato paired hits in the first game. Tyler Ward had three hits in the second game; he and Ikaika DuPont both homered.

HPU improved to 20-19 and CSU San Bernardino fell to 23-15.

Hawaii men's tennis routs Sonoma State

Hawaii beat Sonoma State 6-1 in men's tennis yesterday at Central Oahu Tennis complex.

The Warriors improved to 7-12 after singles victories by Ryan Sceats, Dalibor Ptak, Derrick Lajola, Jamie Migia and Burke Marold.

"We took all three doubles matches and the guys are getting better," coach John Nelson said. "I definitely see improvement with this team."

Seasiders sweep another: Top-ranked Brigham Young-Hawaii women's tennis team swept No. 11 Valdosta State 9-0 at Pensacola, Fla. yesterday, running the Seasiders winning streak to 90 and their record this season to 24-0.

Adrienn Hedgedus, Jing Jing Liu, Anna Lewis, Judy Weng, Amy Sun and Gurianna Korinihona all won singles and doubles matches.

BYUH men reeling: The No. 3 ranked Seasider men lost to No. 8 Valdosta State 5-3, also in Pensacola.

Jan Krejci and leon So 'onalole won their matches for BYUH (17-5). The Seasiders have lost three of their last four matches.

Monroe qualifies for NCAA track regionals

Hawaii long jumper Tasha Monroe qualified for NCAA regionals yesterday with a leap of 19-7.5 at the Texas Relays. She placed fourth in the meet's University/College division.

Novelle Murray was seventh overall in the discus with a toss of 149 feet.

HPU softball shuts out tournament opponents

Hawaii Pacific blanked both UC-San Diego 9-0 and tournament host Cal State Stanislaus 5-0 at the Easton Tournament of Champions at Rainbow Fields in Modesto, Calif., yesterday.

Jessica Parra threw a three-hitter in the first game and helped herself by going 2-for-2 with a walk and a stolen base and scoring two runs.

Malia Sullivan pitched her third shutout in the second game. Parra went 2-for-3 with an RBI and scored a run. Brandy Choy Foo went 1-for-2 with two walks and scored a run. Garcia went 1-for-3 with an RBI double.

Hawaii Pacific, ranked third in the West region, improved to 15-7.

Vulcans fall: Hawaii-Hilo dropped both of its games in the tournament yesterday, losing 9-0 to Seattle before falling 4-3 in 12 innings to Cal State Bakersfield.

Chaminade splits: The Silverswords were blitzed 17-2 by Cal State Bakersfield in the tournament, but rebounded with an 8-7 in over Sonoma State to earn a Gold bracket game against San Francisco State today.

Metzger advances to play Ring today at AVP

Punahou alumnus Stein Metzger and teammate Dax Holdren won all three of their matches yesterday and were set to meet George Roumain and Hawaii alumnus Jason Ring today in the fourth round of the AVP Nissan Series beach volleyball season opener at Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.

Other players with Hawaii ties didn't fare as well:

» Mike Lambert (Punahou) paired with Karch Kiraly. That team lost one match yesterday and was slated to play in the consolation bracket this morning.

» Kevin Wong (Punahou) and Eric Fonoimoana won their first two matches, but were knocked out of the tournament later in the day.

» Alika Williams (Hilo resident) and Aaron Boss went 0-2.

» Albert Hanneman (UH) and Scott Lane went 1-2.

» Scott Wong (Punahou) and Paul Baxter won their first match, but lost their next two.

» Tanya Fuamatu (University High/Hawaii-Hilo) and Heidi Ilustre (UH) won three matches, but were eliminated.


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