Farrington graduate Ruel Cachero and University of Northern Colorado senior Christopher Kobayashi have won the 2005-2006 Bill Gee and Monte Ito Scholarship Awards.

Cachero and Kobayashi earned $1,500 college scholarships for portraying "outstanding achievements and/or potential in journalism and a sincere appreciation of golf." The program is administered by the David S. Ishii Foundation. The Star-Bulletin and Advertiser sponsor the scholarships.

Kobayashi, a McKinley graduate from Kane'ohe, is a past winner of the award. He is majoring in both journalism and English at UNC. An avid golfer, he broke 70 for the first time at Makalena Golf Course. Kobayashi was captain of McKinley's golf team his final two years (2002 and '03) and earned all-O'ahu Interscholastic Association second-team honors both seasons. He worked for Shipyard Log, a weekly magazine for Pearl Harbor employees, the summer of 2004.

Cachero, of Kalihi, was a member of Farrington's newswriting program for three years and a member of the golf team for four. He will attend the University of Hawai'i in the fall.

The awards were presented to the winners by Ishii at his annual foundation fundraising golf tournament banquet June 8 at Pearl Country Club.

The awards celebrate the memorable careers of Gee, the late Honolulu Star-Bulletin sportswriter and editor, and Ito, who passed away in 1996 after covering sports for 50 years for The Honolulu Advertiser. Both are in the Hawai'i Golf Hall of Fame.

The program is open to Hawai'i high school seniors and Hawai'i graduates with at least one year of college remaining.