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Fujino helps Linfield win NCAA III title desert delights | The Honolulu Advertiser | Hawaii's Newspaper
Posted on: Wednesday, May 23, 2007

HOMEGROWN REPORT
 Fujino helps Linfield win NCAA III title desert delights

By Leila Wai
Advertiser Staff Writer

Eastern Arizona's softball team was bolstered by four players from Hawai'i. They were, from left, Marina Gusman-Brown (Pearl City), Jackie Tema (Kaimuki), Noe Esperas (Kamehameha) and Cheynah Farley (Castle). Gusman-Brown was named NJCAA Region I Player of the Year. She was a first-team all-Arizona Community College Athletic Conference and all-Region I pick along with Tema. Esperas (22-5, 150 strikeouts) was selected second-team all-conference.

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Linfield (McMinnville, Ore.), with freshman Candice Fujino (Konawaena 2006) starting at designated player, defeated Washington-St. Louis, 10-2, yesterday to capture its first NCAA Division III national softball title.

Fujino, who is from Kealakekua on the Big Island, batted 5 for 16 with two RBIs in six tournament games.

BASEBALL

  • Kansas freshman left-hander Wally Marciel ('Iolani '06) pitched 6 1/3 innings, his longest outing of the season, in a 4-2 loss to Nebraska Saturday in the Jayhawks' season finale.

    Marciel walked the first batter he faced and then retired 12 of his next 13. He did not give up a base hit until the sixth inning. Marciel allowed three earned runs on three hits, with five strikeouts.

  • Shoreline Community College (Seattle) sophomore first/third baseman Cheynne Hirota (Waiakea '04) was named to the Northwest Athletic Association of Community Colleges North first team as a utility player.

    Hirota, the team's clean-up hitter, batted .318.

    Also on Shoreline's roster are freshman catcher Paul Domingo (Pearl City '05), sophomore outfielder Justin Goo (Roosevelt '04), sophomore left-hander Justin Kekaualua (Waiakea '05), freshman shortstop Markus Miyashiro (Moanalua '06), freshman first baseman Aaron Nakasone (Pearl City '06) and sophomore right-hander Kurt Silva (Kahuku '05).

    Shoreline coach Steve Seki is a Saint Louis graduate. His father, Mel Seki, is the coach of the Pearl City baseball team that reached this year's state tournament championship game.

  • Lewis-Clark State senior infielder Ikaika Lester (Moloka'i '01) was 2-for-5 with six RBIs in a 15-11 win over Azusa Pacific Friday as Lewis-Clark State won the three-game NAIA West Coast Super Regional series.

    Lester hit a two-out, three-run home run in the first inning.

    Both teams received berths for the Avista-NAIA Baseball World Series, a 10-team, double-elimination tournament hosted by Lewis-Clark State.

    Azusa Pacific received a top seed and Lewis-Clark State a No. 3. By contractual agreement with the NAIA, the host cannot receive higher than the No. 3 seed.

  • Whittier senior Matt Morgado (Kamehameha '03 of Wahiawa) was selected to the SCIAC second team as an outfielder.

    Morgado led the team with a .395 batting average, with 12 doubles, four home runs and 24 RBIs.

    WOMEN'S GOLF

  • Arizona sophomore Amanda Wilson (Waiakea '05) shot a 1-over-par 73, good for a tie for ninth after yesterday's first round of the NCAA Division I NCAA Championships at the par-72, 6,351-yard Legends Course at LPGA International.

    The tournament concludes Friday.

    Stanford sophomore Mari Chun (Kamehameha '05) is tied for 39th after a 76.

    Chun was earlier named to the Pac-10 Conference second team.

    Idaho junior Kelly Nakashima (Baldwin '04) became the first Vandal to qualify for the NCAA Tournament. She is tied for 95th at 80.

    WOMEN'S TENNIS

  • Brown senior Michelle Pautler (Hawai'i Prep '03) received all-Ivy Spring Academic honors for earning a 3.0 cumulative GPA or higher. Pautler is a business economics major.

    COMMITMENTS

  • Kaiser goalkeeper Carianne Makino will play for the Saint Mary's (Calif.) women's soccer team, according to her father Carl. Makino was an O'ahu Interscholastic Association Eastern Division first-team pick.

  • Kamehameha-Hawai'i guard Mea Wong signed with Warner Pacific College (Ore.) to play basketball. Wong was named to The Advertiser's All-State second team.

  • 'Iolani utility volleyball player Miyoko Pettit is headed to Harvard, according to her mother Catherine Pettit.

  • Some of the announced college women's volleyball commitments from RichKern.com: Kapa'a setter Joliann Arzadon and Kapa'a outside hitter Poerava Gantt to Humboldt State; Kamehameha right-side hitter Logan Keala to Colgate; Kalani setter Melia Iwamoto to South Dakota State; Waimea outside hitter Nue Wong to UNLV.

    Reach Leila Wai at lwai@honoluluadvertiser.com.
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