ISLE FILE
Two teams tied for lead in 4-Ball championship
Advertiser Staff
Teams of Brian Sasada and Eliot Gouveia, and Kevin Hayashi and Lance Taketa shot 4-under-par 68s to take the first-round lead of the Big Island Candies Scotch 4-Ball Championship at the Club at Hokuli'a.
The tournament is the first major championship of the Aloha Section PGA season.
Andrew Feldmann and Larry Stubblefield, Scott Bridges and Jay Taise, and Ben Hongo and Mark Seki were a stroke back.
Today's final round uses a foursome stroke play format. Tee times begin at 8 a.m.
Twenty-one teams are vying for a purse of $12,000, including $3,500 for the winning team.
Points count toward Governor's Cup selection and Section PGA Player of the Year honors.
TRIATHLON
MILILANI'S MARR 21ST IN CALIFORNIA TRIATHLON
Tim Marr of Mililani finished 21st out of more than 2,000 athletes at the Ford Ironman 70.3 California Triathlon at Oceanside, Calif., on Saturday.
Marr, who turned pro last year, finished the 1.2-mile swim, 56-mile bike and 13.1-mile run in 4 hours, 21 minutes, 3 seconds. Luke Bell of Australia won the event in 40-degree, rainy conditions, in 3:58:24. A total of 2,033 started the race.
The 70.3-mile series — half the distance of the regular Ironman — is in its first year. The championship will be Nov. 11 at Clearwater, Fla.
The Hawai'i stop in the series is the Ford Ironman 70.3 Honu on the Big Island on June 3.
Bell and women's winner Michelle Jones, also of Australia, won $5,000 each.
HAWAI'I COUNTY FIRE DEPT. GETS DONATION
World Triathlon Corporation, owners and organizers of the Ford Ironman World Championship, announced that it will donate more than $50,000 for the purchase of rescue and emergency equipment for the Hawai'i County Fire Department.
Ironman will make the donation through its support of the Daniel Robert Sayre Memorial Foundation.
The Daniel Robert Sayre Memorial Foundation was founded in 1998 to honor the life of Daniel Sayre who died after suffering a fall while hiking in the Kapoloa Falls in Pololu Valley on the Big Island.
The Daniel Robert Sayre Memorial Foundation is a foundation and all donations are tax deductible. All donations go directly to the fire department and not to administrative costs.
For more information on the Daniel Robert Sayre Memorial Foundation, call (808) 329-8067.
GYMNASTICS
VERCRUYSSEN PART OF USA TRAMPOLINE SQUAD
Honolulu resident Nani Vercruyssen will lead the eight-person trampoline squad at the 2006 Pacific Alliance Championships.
The competition will be April 13 to 15 at the Hawai'i Convention Center. Artistic gymnastics will be at the Neal Blaisdell Center.
Also representing the United States in trampoline at the Pacific Alliance Championships are: Michael Devine and Philip Devine of Winnebago, Ill., Chris Estrada and Shanelle Landry of Lafayette, La., Alaina Hebert of Broussard, La., Steven Gluckstein of Atlantic Highlands, N.J., and Erin Blanchard of Youngsville, La.
Vercruyssen won the junior trampoline title at the Winter Classic earlier this year. In 2005, she was the U.S. junior trampoline champion and also won at the Scandinavian Open, as well as finishing second at the Frivolten Cup, Aalsmeer Flower Cup and Canadian National Championships.
For more information, visit www.usa-gymnastics.org.
SOFTBALL
RAINBOW WAHINE WILL TRY TO PLAY AGAIN TODAY
The University of Hawai'i softball team will play Northwestern today after rain canceled yesterday's games in the Bank of Hawai'i Invitational at Rainb ow Wahine Softball Stadium.
Hawai'i plays Northwestern — weather permitting — at 5 p.m. The Wildcats play Kansas at 3 p.m.
LACROSSE
JOHNS HOPKINS ROLLS PAST OREGON, 15-7
Mary Key scored four goals to lift Johns Hopkins to a 15-7 victory over Oregon at Kapi'olani Park on Saturday in the first NCAA women's lacrosse game played in Hawai'i.
Johns Hopkins is 5-0. Oregon is 3-4.
Alex Nolan scored her first career hat trick and goalie Lauren Riddick made 11 saves for Hopkins.
Seven different players scored for the Ducks.
