State volleyball tournament begins

Three girls volleyball teams went through their leagues with perfect records this year, but only one can go through the next stage spotless.

The New City Nissan Girls Volleyball State Championships begin Wednesday at various sites around Oahu. The tournament concludes with the championship match on Saturday at the Stan Sheriff Center.

Kahuku swept through the Oahu Interscholastic Association with a 16-0 record to grab the No. 2 seed, Waiakea won all 16 of its Big Island Interscholastic Federation games for the No. 3 spot and Kamehameha-Maui went 13-0 in the Maui Interscholastic League to take the last seeded berth. Kamehameha is the No. 1 seed after going through the ILH with a 17-2 record.

Hawaii Baptist (16-2) is the top seed in the Division II tournament, followed by Molokai (11-2), Kapolei (16-0) and Hilo (16-2).

Brackets: Full schedule.

BeachBoys come from behind

Marquez Smith hit a solo home run and Yonder Alonso singled in Buster Posey in the ninth inning to lead the Waikiki BeachBoys to a 6-5 come-from-behind victory over the West Oahu CaneFires in Hawaii Winter Baseball yesterday at Hans L'Orange Park.

Kazunori Yamamoto improved to 3-0 with the win for Waikiki (15-2). Cliff Flagello blew the save and took the loss for West Oahu (13-14).

» The North Shore Honu broke a 15-inning scoreless streak to beat the Honolulu Sharks 3-1 yesterday at Les Murakami Stadium.

The Honu improved to 12-15, and the Sharks dropped to 14-13. The league takes today off.

Own goal gives Wahine road win

The Hawaii soccer team received a gift to end the regular season yesterday, beating Idaho 2-1 on the road.

Colleen Burns scored her first career goal to tie it for UH, and 3 minutes later the Vandals booted the ball into their own goal for the winning margin.

The Rainbow Wahine finish the regular season at 8-6-4 with three straight wins. They will be the third seed when the WAC tournament begins on Thursday in Reno, Nev.

Patacchia makes Hang Loose semis

Hawaii's Fred Patacchia beat Heitor Alves of Brazil 11.83 to 9.40 in the Hang Loose Santa Catarina Pro surf contest yesterday in Brazil.

Patacchia advanced to the semifinals, where he lost to Bede Durbidge of Australia, 12.33 to 8.50.

Durbidge went on to beat Jeremy Flores of France in the final of the Association of Surfing Professionals World Championship Tour event, 17.76 to 9.86.

Durbidge won $30,000 for the victory.

PACWEST PLACE

Seben earns conference honor

Hawaii-Hilo's Fabiane Seben was named Pacific West Conference volleyball player of the week yesterday.

Seben led the Vulcans to three wins last week, averaging 4.67 points per game. For the week, she hit .349 and had 44 kills, six service aces and 12 block assists for 56 points.

Bukoski is soccer player of week

Hawaii Pacific's Chance Bukoski was picked as the conference's soccer player of the week yesterday.

Bukoski scored two game-winning goals last week to lead the Sea Warriors into first place.

Bukoski finished the week with eight points on three goals and two assists. He had the deciding goals in wins over Chaminade and Brigham Young-Hawaii.