ISLE FILE
Rain halts Kim's round at Juniors
Advertiser Staff
Heavy rain forced the postponement of the second round of match play at the 2008 U.S. Girls' Junior Championship yesterday at the 6,265-yard, par-71 Hartford Golf Club in West Hartford, Conn.
The second round will start this morning and the third round will be played in the afternoon. The quarterfinal and semifinal matches will be played tomorrow and the 36-hole final will be played Sunday.
Former Big Island resident Kimberly Kim will take on Marina Alex, of Wayne, N.J., in a second-round match today at 1:09 a.m., Hawai'i time.
FINK PLACES SECOND
Kailua's David Fink shot an ever-par-72 and finished one stroke behind winner Kyle Kopsick of Lake Bluff, Ill., yesterday in the Old Second Bank Junior Championship at Aurora, Ill.
Fink shared second with two others at 2-under 214. Kopsick shot a 68 on the final day.
Honolulu's Lorens Chan finished 15th at 78—223.
SURFBOARD POLO
TOURNEY ON SUNDAY
The inaugural Peter Cole Invitational Surfboard Polo Tourney will be held on Sunday at Waimea Bay.
The event will feature several matches of surfboard polo — which is water polo played on surfboards. The matches are scheduled to run from 8 a.m. to around 3 p.m.
The event was created to honor Peter Cole, a pioneer of big-wave surfing in the 1950s and '60s. He was also an avid swimmer and water polo player.
Proceeds from the tournament will be donated to the Surfrider Foundation, a non-profit environmental organization dedicated to the protection of the world's oceans, waves and beaches.
TENNIS
TRIO AT NATIONALS
Sisters Savanna and Rachel Christensen, and Zachary Frampton, all from La'ie, will participate along with 15 other young athletes this weekend at the national finals of the U.S. Junior Olympic Rapid Rally Skills Competition. The tennis players, all between the ages of 8 to 13, are in Chicago.
The USOC program also has competitions in basketball, soccer and track and field.
Savanna Christensen is competing in the 8-9 girls division and Rachel the girls 12-13 division. Frampton is in boys 12-13.
Athletes qualified for Chicago by winning age and gender divisions at one of 150 regional events and 7,500 local qualifiers. Some 1.7 million kids tried out.
UH TO HOST CLINICS
University of Hawai'i men's coach John Nelson and Mark Beede will conduct High Performance Training clinics on July 31 and Aug. 1 at the UH Tennis Complex.
Sessions run from 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. each night and cost $60 per session or $110 for both. The first night will focus on singles and the second on doubles.
Sessions feature work on speed, agility, footwork and include drills and match play. Tactics, video, strategy and mental and physical aspects of the game are also covered.
To register, e-mail beede@hawaiitennis.org or call 677-1334.
