Chaminade’s Stewart earns softball award

Chaminade third baseman and catcher Coco Stewart was named the PacWest Conference Softball Player of the Week.

The sophomore from Irvine, Calif., batted .667 (12-for-18) last week in six games against Faulkner and Holy Names, raising her season batting average 129 points to .313. In the team’s first road series of the season, Stewart went 8-for-12 with 10 RBIs, three runs and a home run. The long ball helped the Silverswords sweep a four-game road series for the first time in nearly two seasons.

Comstock picks up All-America honor

Morganne Comstock became Hawaii Pacific’s first-ever women’s basketball All-American, being named to the Daktronics/Division II CCA Women’s Basketball All-America second team on Monday.

Comstock averaged 19.8 points and 10.9 rebounds per game, and the Kentlake High School (Wash.) grad added 2.5 assists, 1.5 blocks and 1.2 steals per contest.

HPU’s senior center became the first player in program history to win the PacWest Player of the Year and West Region Player of the Year and earn All-America honors.

Comstock has made quite a mark in the HPU record book. She holds the single-season records for points (555), field goals made (227), rebounds (306), offensive rebounds (83), and defensive rebounds (244). The Seattle native also holds the career records for rebounds (607) and defensive rebounds (462), despite playing just two seasons.

Vulcans sweep Holy Names in softball

The UH Hilo softball team swept a doubleheader on the road against Holy Names, 8-0 and 11-9, Monday in San Leandro, Calif.

Vanessa Salinas tossed a two-hit shutout to earn a win in the first game. Vulcans Melanie Morelos and Brandi Wilson did the damage at the plate, driving in two runs apiece in the mercy-rule-shortened victory.

» Edison Sakata’s seventh-inning RBI double was the difference as the UH Hilo baseball team took the final game of a PacWest series with Azusa Pacific 4-3 in Azusa, Calif., on Monday.

The Vulcans, who lost the first game of the doubleheader 5-1, entrusted reliever Michael Slifer, who got the win in relief with three shutout innings during which he struck out four.

UH Hilo men 14 strokes off lead

In advance of Tuesday’s final round, the UH Hilo men’s golf team stands in fourth place in the 65th Annual SoCal Intercollegiate at the Carlton Oaks Golf Club in Santee, Calif.

The Vulcans turned in a pair of 305 rounds to enter the final round 14 strokes behind tournament leader Cal State Monterey Bay’s 596. UC Colorado Springs is in second place at 598, followed by Cal State East Bay (609) and the Vulcans (610).

UH Hilo’s Dalen Yamauchi is tied for third place at 3 over (147), while teammate Kyeton Littel is five strokes back (152) and tied for 13th place.

» The BYU-Hawaii men’s golf team is slotted in ninth place after posting a 27-over-par 603 after two rounds of the Cal Baptist Lancers Invitational at Eagle Glen Golf Club in Riverside, Calif. Hawaii Pacific (610) is in 10th place, with the final round to be played on Tuesday.

Hawaii Pacific swept in double dip

The HPU baseball team dropped a pair of games to California Baptist, 12-3 and 2-1, in a PacWest doubleheader Monday in Riverside, Calif.

Sharks designated hitter Nolan Barraza collected five hits between the two contests as the visiting squad fell to to 12-9 overall and 9-7 in conference play.

Chaminade softball team drops pair

The Chaminade softball team could not continue its momentum from a four-game road winning streak and dropped two games, 3-2 and 6-4, to Notre Dame de Namur in Belmont, Calif., on Monday evening.

The Silverswords (7-21, 6-12) were led by reigning PacWest Player of the Week Coco Stewart, who went 3-for-7 in the twinbill and connected on her second home run of the season.