Oda fires 63 in State Amateur stroke play
Moanalua High’s John Oda shot a 9-under 63 and leads by four after the first round of the Hawaii State Amateur Stroke Play Championship at Pearl Country Club.
Shawn Lu had six birdies on the back nine for a 30 and finished at 5-under 67.
Haskins named to All-West region team
Chaminade senior guard De’Andre Haskins was named to the Daktronics NCAA II All-West Region second team on Thursday.
Haskins, the PacWest Player of the Year, was second in the conference in scoring (18.7 ppg) and fifth in rebounding (7.4). Haskins and the eighth-seeded Silverswords take on top seed and defending national champion Western Washington in today’s D-II West Region quarterfinal game in Bellingham, Wash.
Vandemoer named to U.S. sailing team
Olympian and former Hawaii All-American Molly (O’Bryan) Vandemoer was named to the 2013 U.S. Sailing Team Sperry Top-Sider Thursday. Vandemoer and Anna Tunnicliffe, her teammate at last year’s Olympics, are campaigning for the 2016 Games in the 49er FX, a new women’s skiff entry.
They are among 34 athletes on the team. The national team is selected annually and made up of the top sailors competing in the events selected for the 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Tunnicliffe, 30, won a gold medal at the 2008 Olympics in Laser Radial. She teamed with Vandemoer, 33, in Women’s Match Racing for the 2012 Games and finished fifth. They were second overall at the World Cup.
HPU women successful on road in tennis
Hawaii Pacific’s fifth-ranked women’s tennis team lost just one match on its recent two-week road trip, while its fifth-ranked men’s team went 3-2 while facing four top-15 teams.
The women (9-1) beat 10th-ranked West Florida, 14th-ranked Cal State Los Angeles and 27th-ranked UC San Diego. In Las Vegas, they upset third-ranked Abilene Christian and beat 28th-ranked Fresno Pacific before falling to defending NCAA Division II champion Armstrong Atlantic State on Wednesday. HPU’s Ielyzaveta Rybakova won at No. 1 against Armstrong, upsetting second-ranked Barbora Krtichova, 7-5, 4-6, 7-5.
The men (7-2) also ended their trip Wednesday with a 9-0 loss to Armstrong, which also won last year’s D-II title.