ISLE FILE
Ching chosen MLS Player of the Week
Advertiser Staff
Brian Ching, a Houston Dynamo forward from Hale'iwa, was named the Major League Soccer Player of the Week for the first week of the season.
Ching, a 1996 Kamehameha graduate, scored four goals in a 5-2 win over the Colorado Rapids Sunday. It was the ninth time in MLS history that a player scored at least four goals in one game.
The MLS Player of the Week is selected every week throughout the regular season by a panel of journalists from the Professional Soccer Reporters Association (PSRA).
BASEBALL
SPARTANS SPANK HILO
Ryan Angel and Sam Hall each had three hits as San Jose State routed host Hawai'i-Hilo, 9-1, yesterday in a non-conference game at Wong Stadium.
Angel added three RBIs and Hall had two for the Spartans (21-12). Greg Shannon allowed seven hits over seven innings with 10 strikeouts.
Chris Campbell and Kyler Wartman had two hits apiece for the Vulcans (10-24).
WRESTLING
FIFTH AT NATIONALS
Keiko Akamine of Iolani and Kara Takasaki of Punahou placed fifth in their weight divisions at the USGWA National Tournament last weekend in Michigan.
Akamine competed at 100 pounds and Takasaki at 138 in a tournament that drew more than 650 female wrestlers from across the country.
Also competing from Hawai'i were: Iolani's Olivia Fatongia (6th, 165-pounds plus), Kailua's Kiele Lehel (7th, 165), Kalaheo's Stephanie Geltmacher (9th, 134), Iolani's Carla Watase (10th, 105), Kailua's Monique Dilliner (10th, 144) and Iolani's Megan Morisada (11th, 105).
