Shaw perfect for Sharks

New York Mets prospect Scott Shaw and four relievers allowed only two hits as the Honolulu Sharks blanked the North Shore Honu 5-0 last night in Hawaii Winter Baseball at Les Murakami Stadium.

Shaw started for Honolulu and threw five perfect innings with seven strikeouts before being taken out. Junior Guerra gave up the first baserunner on a hit in the sixth but kept the Honu scoreless. Blake King, Roy Merritt and David Patton each threw a scoreless inning to complete the shutout for Honolulu.

» Todd Frazier, Yonder Alonso and Damon Sublett each hit home runs as the Waikiki BeachBoys beat the West Oahu CaneFires 13-3 last night at Hans L'Orange Park.

Swanson in top spot

Honolulu's Melinda Swanson has moved up into the top ranking of her weight class in the USA Judo Senior Elite National rankings.

Swanson, who fights out of Hawaii Tenri, is No. 1 in the women's plus-78kg division. She medaled at both the U.S. Open and Rendez-Vouz to move ahead of 2008 Pan Am team member Heidi Moore in the heavyweight division.

Swanson placed fifth at the Pan Am competition and is considered an early favorite for the 2012 Olympics.

Warriors finish fourth

The Hawaii men's volleyball team, finishing fourth in the THUNDERBALL tournament in Vancouver, Canada, yesterday, had two players named to the all-tournament team.

Senior Sean Cranny was named best setter and sophomore hitter Joshua Walker was named best attacker as the Warriors finished 0-4 at the event hosted by the University of British Columbia.

Hawaii beat Mountain Pacific Sports Federation rival Pacific 25-15, 25-17, 13-25, 23-25, 15-13 in the final round-robin match yesterday morning. The Tigers (1-3) came back to defeat the Warriors (1-3) in the bronze-medal match 25-19, 14-25, 25-19, 22-25, 17-15.

Walker led Hawaii in all four matches, including 11 kills in the third-place match.

“;It was a very worthwhile competition for us,”; Warrior coach Mike Wilton said. “;At times we did some really good playing and we were a better team than I expected to be this early.

“;We were up and down in both matches with UOP, either team could have won either. The mistakes we made are ones that can easily be fixed in practice. I liked how hard we played and the fact we had two players recognized says a lot.”;

Hawaii returns home and will continue its fall preseason with a match against the alumni Saturday. The event features alumni-alumni matches at 3 p .m. and 5 p.m. with the featured Warrior-alumni match at 7 p.m.

Admission is free.

Grand Canyon downs UH-Hilo

Grand Canyon avenged Friday's loss with a 25-20, 24-26, 25-21, 25-20 win over UH-Hilo yesterday in Phoenix. Junior Jenna Skadeland led the Antelopes with nine blocks, including the game-winner to give Grand Canyon the match.

The Vulcans fell to 5-4 in conference play.

Pachecano scores 2 in win

Despite being out-shot 19-11, the Vulcans defeated the Seasiders 4-1 yesterday in Laie.

Junior Megan Pachecano scored a pair of goals in the games' first 10 minutes and added an assist for Hawaii-Hilo (8-3, 3-0).

Margaret Sekona scored BYU-Hawaii's lone goal in the 35th minute.

» UH-Hilo and BYU-Hawaii tied 2-2 after two overtimes as the Cougars scored the first two goals of the night and the Vulcans followed with two of their own in a men's PacWest conference soccer match. Adam Maciejewski had both goals for BYU-Hawaii.