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Pono Tokioka
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Pono Tokioka closed the fall schedule on Sunday with the Rainbow Warrior golf team’s first top-10 finish of the season.
Tokioka had five birdies and two bogeys to post UH career-best rounds of 3 under par 68 in the first and third rounds of the Ka‘anapali Classic Collegiate Invitational on Maui and finished in a tie for fifth at 5 under par. His total of 208 left him five strokes off the lead and matched Georgia’s Lee McCoy, the nation’s third ranked player according to Golf Week.
Tokioka was part of the U.S. team in the World Deaf Golf Championship in 2012 where he finished eighth, and has three rounds in the 60s over the last two tournaments. He shot his previous low of 69 back home on Kauai last week in the first round of the Warrior Princeville Makai Invitational.
Class: Sophomore
Major: Undecided (considering business management or marketing)
Hometown: Lihue
High school: Kauai
Statistically speaking: Played in two tournaments as a freshman with a scoring average of 77.6. … Placed fourth in the U.S. Deaf Golf Association Championship in 2011 and ’13.