Tobita takes Junior Championship
Alyssa Tobita defeated Ashley Ishimura, 6-4, 6-1, Sunday to win the Girls 18 title at the Hawaii State Junior Championships. The match was a replay of the last state high school championship, which Tobita also won to give her three state titles going into her senior year at Mililani.
Zander Kim won the Boys 18 final, 8-2, over Gregory Zukeran. Kim also won doubles, playing with state high school singles champ Kawika Lam. They defeated Daisuke Nakayama and Grant Zukeran 6-0, 6-4.
The matches were played at sites around Oahu. Due to darkness and court time limits, some finals were reduced to playoff (first to eight) formats.
Players from Oahu, the Big Island, Maui, Guam, California, New York, Maryland and Virginia participated. There were 192 players in four age divisions.
All singles and doubles winners were from Oahu, with the exception of Girls 16 doubles champs Sarah Tsukamoto and Michelle Uyeda, both from Kailua Kona, and Girls 18 doubles champ Sarah Dvorak, from Kurtistown on Hawaii island. She played with Oahu’s Katie Kim.
Waipahu’s run ends at Legion World Series
Waipahu’s bid for the American Legion World Series title ended with an 8-2 loss to Petaluma, Calif., on Tuesday in Shelby, N.C.
After losing its first game of the tournament, Waipahu had survived three elimination games to advance to the final day of the World Series. The team finished one win short of the final as Petaluma went on to face Brooklawn, N.J., for the championship.
Petaluma took a 2-0 lead in the bottom of the first and pulled away with a three-run seventh. Tanner Tokunaga went 2-for-4 with a double and Bryson Yasui drove in a run for Waipahu. Anthony Bender went 3-for-5 with an RBI for Petaluma. Jimmy Flatt struck out four and walked three over seven innings and earned the win. Waipahu starter Dylan Sugimoto took the loss.
Pak beats Young to capture OCC tourney
Jeannie Pak and Jo Ann Chun captured the gross and net championships Tuesday at the Oahu Country Club Women’s Invitational. The tournament uses Stableford scoring, with golfers getting one point for bogey, two for par and three for birdie. An 18-hole score of 36 points is even par.
Pak shot rounds of 29-33 for 62 points, without using her handicap (gross score). She had one birdie and four bogeys in the final round.
Chun is a C-flighter who plays to a 24-handicap. She accumulated 79 net points with rounds of 39-40, or 7 under par. That was three better than the runner-up.
Pak overtook first-round leader Miki Young (27–57) in the final round. Young captured low-gross honors in Championship Flight. Low-net honors in the other flights went to Shirley Grossi (76 points) in A, Janet Helm (72) in B and Hiromi Matsunaga (72) in C.
Tobita takes Junior Championship
Alyssa Tobita defeated Ashley Ishimura, 6-4, 6-1, Sunday to win the Girls 18 title at the Hawaii State Junior Championships. The match was a replay of the last state high school championship, which Tobita also won to give her three state titles going into her senior year at Mililani.
Zander Kim won the Boys 18 final, 8-2, over Gregory Zukeran. Kim also won doubles, playing with state high school singles champ Kawika Lam. They defeated Daisuke Nakayama and Grant Zukeran 6-0, 6-4.
The matches were played at sites around Oahu. Due to darkness and court time limits, some finals were reduced to playoff (first to eight) formats.
Players from Oahu, the Big Island, Maui, Guam, California, New York, Maryland and Virginia participated. There were 192 players in four age divisions.
All singles and doubles winners were from Oahu, with the exception of Girls 16 doubles champs Sarah Tsukamoto and Michelle Uyeda, both from Kailua Kona, and Girls 18 doubles champ Sarah Dvorak, from Kurtistown on Hawaii island. She played with Oahu’s Katie Kim.
Waipahu’s run ends at Legion World Series
Waipahu’s bid for the American Legion World Series title ended with an 8-2 loss to Petaluma, Calif., on Tuesday in Shelby, N.C.
After losing its first game of the tournament, Waipahu had survived three elimination games to advance to the final day of the World Series. The team finished one win short of the final as Petaluma went on to face Brooklawn, N.J., for the championship.
Petaluma took a 2-0 lead in the bottom of the first and pulled away with a three-run seventh. Tanner Tokunaga went 2-for-4 with a double and Bryson Yasui drove in a run for Waipahu. Anthony Bender went 3-for-5 with an RBI for Petaluma. Jimmy Flatt struck out four and walked three over seven innings and earned the win. Waipahu starter Dylan Sugimoto took the loss.
Pak beats Young to capture OCC tourney
Jeannie Pak and Jo Ann Chun captured the gross and net championships Tuesday at the Oahu Country Club Women’s Invitational. The tournament uses Stableford scoring, with golfers getting one point for bogey, two for par and three for birdie. An 18-hole score of 36 points is even par.
Pak shot rounds of 29-33 for 62 points, without using her handicap (gross score). She had one birdie and four bogeys in the final round.
Chun is a C-flighter who plays to a 24-handicap. She accumulated 79 net points with rounds of 39-40, or 7 under par. That was three better than the runner-up.
Pak overtook first-round leader Miki Young (27–57) in the final round. Young captured low-gross honors in Championship Flight. Low-net honors in the other flights went to Shirley Grossi (76 points) in A, Janet Helm (72) in B and Hiromi Matsunaga (72) in C.
