Grant Dressler scored 34 points, including going 14-for-14 from the free-throw line, as the Chaminade men’s basketball team defeated Holy Names 108-97 in the quarterfinals of the PacWest tournament on Thursday in San Rafael, Calif.
Erik Scheive added 19 points and Tyler Cartaino and Andre Arissol each added 17 for the third-seeded Silverswords (23-6).
Chaminade will play second-seeded Concordia today at 10:30 a.m.
Alonzo Taylor finished with 28 points for the sixth-seeded Hawks (12-16).
HPU women win PacWest quarterfinal
Breanna Mackenzie scored 23 points as the Hawaii Pacific women’s basketball team beat Concordia 65-58 in the quarterfinals of the PacWest tournament on Thursday in San Rafael, Calif.
Amy Baum had 12 points, five rebounds and four steals and Alysha Marcucci added 10 points and seven rebounds for the third-seeded Sharks (21-8).
HPU, the defending conference champion, will face second-seeded Dominican today at 3 p.m.
Michaela Vanderklugt scored 19 points for the sixth-seeded Eagles (10-18).
Cal overwhelms UH softball team
California pounded out 16 hits in support of Kamehameha graduate Kamalani Dung in a 14-0 win over the University of Hawaii softball team on Thursday in the Outrigger Resorts Spring Fling Tournament at Rainbow Wahine Softball Stadium.
Dung (6-3) held UH (13-5) to three singles and struck out eight in Cal’s five-inning victory. The Golden Bears (14-7) got home runs by Lindsay Rood and Mikayla Coelho in an eight-run second inning. UH freshman Izzy Dino (4-2) gave up Cal’s first six runs and took the loss.
Gillette wins WSL qualifying event
Hawaii’s Gavin Gillette beat France’s Marco Mignot in the final of the Air Tahiti Rangiroa Pro on Thursday in Rangiroa, Tuamotus, French Polynesia.
Gillette won 16.10 to 12.67 in the WSL men’s qualifying series 1,000 event.
Gillette also defeated fellow Hawaii surfers Eli Hanneman (semifinals) and Kainehe Hunt (quarterfinals) on Thursday.
