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WAC adds 3 championships

The Western Athletic Conference will add baseball, softball and women's gymnastics championships for the 2005-06 school year.

Gymnastics will debut as a WAC sport while the league is reinstating postseason tournaments for baseball and softball. The last time those tournaments were held was in 1999.

The additions come less than three months before conference realignment with Idaho, New Mexico State and Utah State joining the league on July 1.

Boise State, San Jose State, Utah State and affiliate members Cal State Fullerton, Sacramento State and Southern Utah will participate in gymnastics. Earlier this year, Utah State won the Western Gymnastics Conference title while Sacramento State won its fourth Mountain Pacific Sports Federation title in five years.

Fresno State, Hawaii, Louisiana Tech, Nevada, New Mexico State, San Jose State and affiliate member Sacramento State will participate in baseball. Softball teams are Fresno State, Hawaii, Louisiana Tech, Nevada, New Mexico State, San Jose State and Utah State.

Monroe, Reeve, Weaver win at UCLA meet

Tasha Monroe, Sabrina Reeve and Meghan Weaver won top honors at day two of UCLA's Rafer Johnson/Jackie Joyner-Kersee Invitational in Los Angeles.

Monroe captured the 200-meter event with a time of 24.72 seconds and Reeve won the 3,000 with a time of 9:42.34. Weaver won the shot put with a toss of 13.92 meters.

Golfers struggle at Thunderbird

The University of Hawaii men's golf team stands in last place after two rounds of the Thunderbird Invitational in Tempe, Ariz.

Hawaii is tied for 14th at 596 with the Arizona State Maroon team. UNLV leads the 15-team field with a score of 563.

Arizona's Nathan Laskley and Kipp Riehle leads the field with a 4-under-par, 138. The Rainbow Warriors are led by Ryan Perez's 146. He is tied for 33rd with Oregon's Matt Ma, an Iolani graduate.

UH's Nelson loses at homecoming

San Diego State swept the Hawaii men's tennis team 7-0 yesterday in UH coach John Nelson's homecoming at San Diego, Calif.

Prior to joining UH in 2003, Nelson was SDSU's coach for 10 seasons, guiding the Aztecs to five NCAA Tournament appearances.

UH (6-11) managed to win one doubles match with Bryon Weinberg and Chad Faulk defeating Eugenio Romero and Markus Dickhardt 9-8 (8). But the No. 41 Aztecs won two of the three doubles matches to take the doubles point and then won all six singles matches.

Vulcans rained out in California

Yesterday's Hawaii-Hilo at Sacramento State baseball game was rained out in Sacramento, Calif.

The teams will play a doubleheader today starting at 8 a.m. Hawaii time.

HPU three-peats in cheerleading

The Hawaii Pacific co-ed cheerleading team won a title at the National Cheerleaders Association Collegiate Championship for the third straight year in Daytona Beach, Fla., yesterday.

HPU took the small co-ed cheer division and also won the all-girl stunt team and mascot event with Sharkey the Sea Warrior. The HPU dance team finished third.