Cross Country

UH sends 5 to regional

Freshman Montana Martinez leads a group of five runners representing UH at the NCAA West Regional on Friday at the Stanford Golf Course on the California university’s campus.

Martinez was UH’s top finisher in every meet this season and established a personal best at the Big West championships on Nov. 1 with a time of 22 minutes, 35 seconds while finishing 41st in the 6-kilometer race.

Also entered in the regional are freshman Alexa Foster and seniors Louise Mulvey, Hayley Musashi and Tiare Nakashima. UH is making its first appearance in the regional since 2010.

Softball

Alumnae game returns

After a one-year hiatus, the Rainbow Wahine softball program’s alumnae game returns on Saturday with this year’s team facing some of UH’s most prolific players of the past.

Pitchers Stephanie Ricketts and Kate Robinson, both second-team NFCA All-Americans in their playing days, are listed on the alumnae roster along with shortstop Jessica Iwata, UH’s all-time leader in RBIs, and Kelly Elms, the program’s home run record holder. Infielders Jazmine Zamora and Kaile Nakao, seniors last spring, also return to take on their former teammates in their alumnae debuts.

"They have some young guns that want to come out and beat us," UH coach Bob Coolen said after the current Wahine went 3-0 in the Kama‘aina Tournament last weekend.

Some of the 39 alums who signed up as of Wednesday are scheduled to play a slow pitch game at 4 p.m. leading up to the 6 p.m. game between the alumnae and the current Wahine team.

The alumnae game caps UH’s fall practice schedule. The Wahine will resume their offseason conditioning program next week.