Mexico in good shape at Junior America’s Cup

Hawaii is in sixth place after the opening round of the 41st Junior America’s Cup, held Tuesday at Wailea’s Gold Course on Maui. The team shot 1-under-par 215 and trails Mexico by six. Mexico’s No. 2 team is second, three shots back.

Shawn Lu led the Hawaii team — but not by much. He opened with a 71, while PJ Samiere, Spencer Dunaway and Keegan Loo all fired even-par 72s. The top three scores count.

Mexico’s Alvaro Ortiz is the individual leader after firing six birdies in his 68. Lu is tied for 10th.

Defending champion Hawaii is eighth after the first round of the Girls’ Junior America’s Cup, at the University of New Mexico Championship Course in Albuquerque. Hawaii shot 12-over-par 228 and trails leader Mexico by 14 shots.

Hawaii was led by Kaci Masuda’s 74, which has her in a tie for 13th. She was followed by Zoey Akagi-Bustin (76), Kristin Le (78) and Keilyn Ing (86). The average score Tuesday was 78.

In other golf:

» Cyd Okino shot a 2-under-par 70 in the opening round of the Hawaii State Women’s Stroke Play at Mid-Pacific Country Club. Okino, about to start her junior year at Washington, has a two-shot lead over Notre Dame junior Kelli Oride from Kauai.

Kailua’s Monique Ishikawa, a sophomore at Columbia, is tied for third with defending champion Nicole Sakamoto at 74.

Sakamoto is going for her fourth consecutive stroke play title. Oride was third last year and Okino second in 2011. Okino won the State Match Play championship in 2005 and 2008.

Today’s second round and Thursday’s final round begin at 9 a.m., with the leaders going out at approximately 9:30.

» Maui’s Reese Guzman and Oahu’s Allysha Mae Mateo were the only Americans in the top six of the Girls 10-12 division at the Optimist International Junior Championship. The younger age groups finished Monday at PGA National in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.

Guzman took third, closing with a 72 for a three-day total of 219. She finished two back of the winner, Ela Anacona from Buenos Aires. Mateo (77—226) tied for fifth and Lana Calibuso-Kwee (85—250) was 21st.

In other age divisions: Kyle Suppa (73—227) was 13th in Boys 14-15, with Desmond Mello (83—238) 44th; Danielle Ujimori (79—236) tied for 16th in Girls 13-14; Kolbe Irei (82—247) took 10th in Boys 10-11, and; Acey Yanagishita (77—232) tied for 21st in Boys 12-13, followed by Pono Yanagi (76—237).

» In the opening round of the 38th Junior PGA Championship Tuesday at Trump National in Sterling, Va., Honolulu’s Allisen Corpuz and Pearl City’s Brittany Fan shot even-par 71 and are four shots out of first. Mariel Galdiano, Corpuz’s Punahou classmate, is another shot back.

Moanalua senior John Oda also fired 70 and is five back in the Boys Flight.

The tournament features 156 juniors who qualified from 40 states and five countries. There is a cut after the third round to the low 30 girls and boys.

De Lima finishes fourth at high dive championships

Former Rainbow Wahine Stephanie De Lima placed fourth in the inaugural women’s high dive event at the 15th FINA World Championships, Tuesday in Barcelona.

De Lima, a Canadian who graduated from Hawaii two years ago, accumulated 182.55 points in the third and final round. She finished behind Americans Cesilie Carlton (211.6) and Ginger Huber (206.7), and German Anna Bader (203.9).

De Lima was also fourth, among six divers, in the qualifying rounds. She is a five-time WAC champion and the only UH diver to sweep all three diving events at the conference championships.

In men’s high dive, nine-time world cliff diving champion Orlando Duque is the top qualifier heading into today’s final round. Duque, originally from Colombia, now lives in Laie.

The women’s high dive was on a 20-meter (65.6 feet) platform while the men dive from 27 meters (88.6).