ISLE FILE
Hawai'i-Hilo topples Air Force
Advertiser Staff
Emil DeAndreis pitched 3 2/3 scoreless innings of relief and Karl Maas added two more scoreless inning for the save as Hawai'i-Hilo beat Air Force, 6-3, yesterday at Wong Stadium.
Dayne Ogawa and Jon Vitale each drove in two runs for Hilo (8-23).
Air Force (5-23) led 2-0 after the top of the first inning.
HPU SWEPT ON ROAD
Taylor Lewis allowed one run in 4 2/3 innings as Sonoma State beat Hawai'i Pacific, 3-1, to sweep a doubleheader yesterday at Rohnert, Calif.
Lewis allowed two hits, walked one and struck out three for Sonoma State (29-5). Nick O'Brien and Paige Dumont pitched the final 2 2/3 innings.
Kaimi Mead pitched six innings and allowed three runs (one earned) for HPU (17-16).
In the nine-inning first game, Leonardo Avila and B.J. Collom each drove in two runs as Sonoma State won, 10-1.
Johnny Gentry and Mark Veneri each had two hits for HPU.
SOFTBALL
HPU TAKES PAIR
Sherise Musquiz pitched a five-hitter with no walks and five strikeouts as Hawai'i Pacific beat Cal State Dominguez Hills, 1-0, yesterday in the Mizuno Tournament of Champions at Turlock, Calif.
Jessica Adolph singled in Laine Sakuma in the fourth inning for the game's only run.
Dominguez Hills dropped to 16-16.
The Sea Warriors defeated Cal State Bakersfield (18-5-1) later in the day, 7-1, behind a four-hitter by Courtney Kessell.
Kessell walked none and struck out four, and Nicole Kalakau had three RBIs for HPU (20-6).
UH-HILO WINS 2 OF 3
The Hawai'i-Hilo softball team won 2 of 3 games yesterday at the Mizuno Tournament of Champions at Turlock, Calif.
In the first game, Tracy Ryan pitched a four-hitter in the Vulcans' 6-1 victory over Notre Dame de Namur (10-27).
Charity Senas, Kanani Numata and Miki Asamura each drove in two runs for Hilo.
In the second game, Leo Sing Chow pitched three-hit ball over five shutout innings as Hilo beat Cal State Monterey Bay (10-28), 6-3.
Numata and Asamura each drove in two runs for the Vulcans.
In the finale, Jessica Gaumnitz allowed one earned run over seven innings as Cal State Stanislaus (30-8) beat Hilo, 4-2.
The Vulcans are 26-5.
HIGHLAND GAMES
EVENT STARTS TODAY
The time has come again for serious and not-so-serious Highland athletes to press their kilts, scrub their rolling pins and ... do whatever they do to prepare a caber.
The Hawaiian Scottish Festival and Highland Games return today and tomorrow from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., at Kapi'olani Park (across from Queen's Surf). Athletic competitions include the kilted mile, housewives' events including a rolling pin toss, and the always-popular caber (think telephone pole) toss.
The festival is free; cost to enter athletic events is $25.
TRACK & FIELD
WICHMANN QUALIFIES
University of Hawai'i junior Annett Wichmann qualified for the NCAA Regionals with a javelin throw of 145.5 feet yesterday at the Stanford Invitational.
Wichmann, a native of Jena, Germany, set a modern day UH record and is the fourth Rainbow Wahine to set a qualifying mark for the NCAA Regionals.
