All night games for UH at Classic

The Hawaii men's basketball team is guaranteed three evening games in this year's 45th Annual Outrigger Hotels Rainbow Classic, no matter what the outcome of those contests.

Last year, the Rainbow Warriors lost their Classic opener to Louisiana-Lafayette and were relegated to daytime games - with minimal attendance - against St. John's and Georgia.

This year, Hawaii is paired up with Colorado State of the Mountain West on Dec. 27. Should the Rainbows lose, they'll still play in the 7:30 p.m. prime-time slot against either Vermont or George Washington on Dec. 29. And if Hawaii is not in the championship game on Dec. 30, the 'Bows will still play their consolation match at 5 p.m.

The other first-round pairings are Buffalo vs. Pepperdine, and Colorado vs. Coppin State.

3 Hawaii surfers eliminated in France

Roy Powers, Pancho Sullivan and Fred Patacchia, all of Hawaii, lost their third-round heats yesterday and were eliminated from the Quiksilver Pro France at Les Estagnots.

Kieren Parrow stopped Powers, Luke Stedman beat Sullivan, and Damien Hobgood defeated Patacchia to advance to the fourth round of the Association of Surfing Professionals World Championship Tour event.

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BYUH women win soccer match

Sarah Welty scored two goals to lead Brigham Young-Hawaii to a 4-1 victory over Grand Canyon in the Seasiders' PacWest women's soccer season opener at Phoenix, Ariz.

Margaret Sekona and Natalie Cude also scored for BYUH, which improved to 5-1 overall.

Grand Canyon got a goal from Angela Russell and fell to 1-5-1.

» Andrew Bailey scored two goals to lead Grand Canyon past Brigham Young-Hawaii 3-0 in a men's soccer match in Phoenix, Ariz., yesterday. Nick Sykes also scored for Grand Canyon, which improved to 1-3-2.

BYUH fell to 2-5 overall after losing its PacWest conference opener.

» Arturo Gomez scored two goals to lead Notre Dame de Namur to a 5-0 victory over Chaminade in men's soccer at Belmont, Calif., yesterday.

The Silverswords dropped to 1-6-1, and the Argonauts improved to 4-2-1.

» Notre Dame de Namur topped Chaminade 3-0 in women's soccer at Belmont, Calif., yesterday.

Sally Olsson and Victoria Colon got the Argonauts (3-5) rolling with a goal each within the first 15 minutes.

Runners Whitford, Malley take honors

Senior Amanda Whitford of Brigham Young-Hawaii and freshman Kevin Malley of Hawaii Pacific won the PacWest cross country runners of the week awards.

Whitford took the honor for the third consecutive time. She was sixth out of 62 runners at the University of Hawaii Big Wave meet with a 4-kilometer time of 14 minutes, 55.34 seconds.

Malley was 12th overall in the men's race at the Hawaii Big Wave, running the 5K course in 15:57.56.