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The Hawaii cross country team finished fifth at Saturday’s Big West championship at Kahuku Golf Course, the Rainbow Wahine’s highest finish since 2004.

Sophomore Camille Campos was seventh in 21 minutes and 50.6 seconds on the 6-kilometer course, the best conference finish for a Wahine since Victoria Chang was fifth in 2003. Cal Poly’s Peyton Bilo won the individual title in 21:04.1 and the Mustangs, with all five scoring runners in the top nine, easily took the nine-team event with 27 points.

UC Davis was second with 72 points, followed by UC Santa Barbara (96), Cal State Fullerton (97), Hawaii (124), UC Riverside (129). In 2004, Hawaii finished fifth at the WAC meet.

Wahine junior Montana Martinez, who led for the first half of the race, dropped back to 13th (22.26.6). Also scoring for Hawaii were senior Alii Cross (28th, 23:12.7), sophomore Tristan Setzer (38th. 23:33.9), senior Caitlyn Foss (43rd, 23:46.6) and freshman Maddie Fuhrman (46th, 24:14.7).

Chaminade battles to tie with Azusa Pacific

Yoshinori Tamukai scored at 25:21, and the Chaminade men’s soccer team settled for a 1-1 tie against Azusa Pacific on Saturday at Saint Louis field.

Kaleb Armbrust scored on a free kick at 88:15 for the Cougars (6-6-4, 6-4-2 PacWest).

The Silverswords moved to 5-7-1, 5-5-1.

>> In the women’s match, Victoria Kovatch scored at 74:12 as the Azusa Pacific women’s soccer team beat Chaminade 1-0 on Saturday at Saint Louis field.

The Cougars improved to 11-3-3, 9-1-2 PacWest, while the Silverswords dropped to 3-10-1, 3-7-1.

>>Anthony Novella scored at 5:28 and Omar Machado added a goal at 26:01, but Hawaii Hilo lost to Point Loma 3-2 at Paiea Stadium.

Eduardo Gallardo (31:27), Nico Tagaloa (34:32) and Mitch Wheelon (62:49) scored for the Sea Lions (8-5, 7-4-1 PacWest).

The Vulcans fell to 1-13-1, 0-10-1.

HPU swept by Cal Baptist

In a battle of the PacWest’s second-place teams, California Baptist swept Hawaii Pacific 25-21, 25-20, 25-16 on Saturday at St. Andrew’s Priory.

The Sharks (14-8, 10-3) were led by Pomai Recca’s 11 digs and game-high 15 kills. Lauren Hackett led the Lancers (16-5, 11-2) with 13 kills and digs each.