Tynanes wins MMA bout in Manila

Ewa Beach’s Lowen Tynanes remained undefeated as a professional with a first-round TKO of Felipe Enomoto on the undercard of the ONE Fighting Championship: Rise to Power event at the Mall of Asia Arena early Friday morning in the Philippines.

Tynanes (5-0) needed 2 minutes, 41 seconds to stop Enomoto (6-6) with a series of elbows on the ground. Tynanes had Enomoto’s arm pinned behind his leg, leaving him unable to defend a series of strikes that forced the referee to stop the fight.

The 22-year-old King of the Cage light welterweight champion has won four of his five pro fights by either submission or TKO.

He has never fought professionally in Hawaii, competing four times in Asia.

He’s 2-0 in ONE FC.

HPU, BYUH tennis players All-Americans

Petr Michnev, who played singles and doubles for the Hawaii Pacific men’s tennis team, was named Intercollegiate Tennis Association Division II All-American for the second consecutive year.

He is one of four Sea Warriors’ athletes (three men and one woman) to earn All-American honors. Also named were four Brigham Young-Hawaii women.

Michnev, who was the HPU male athlete of the year, also won the ITA’s Arthur Ashe Leadership & Sportsmanship Award for his outstanding 2013. Michnev, whose GPA is 3.7, is working on his master’s degree in business administration.

He was joined by singles player Jaume Martinez-Vich and doubles player Gérald Moretti and women’s singles player Ielysaveta Rybakova on the All-American team.

Sherry Liu and Annie Hwang, who both played singles and doubles, along with doubles players Marietta Tuionetoa and Marika Kobayashi were the Seasiders’ players named All-American.

To earn All-American, athletes must finish in top 20 in singles and top 10 in doubles in the ITA final rankings.