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Former Rainbow Hee wins gold glove
Advertiser Staff and News Services
Former University of Hawai'i shortstop Jonathan Hee was named the American Baseball Coaches Association/Rawlings NCAA Division I Gold Glove shortstop, while also picking up first-team West Region honors.
Hee started all 60 games for the Rainbows in 2008, committing only five errors in 324 chances for a .985 fielding percentage. He also played second base.
Hee, a Mid-Pacific Institute graduate, batted .368 with 49 runs, 32 RBIs, 15 doubles and three home runs this season.
He earned first-team all-Western Athletic Conference honors at shortstop and was taken by the Boston Red Sox in the 21st round of the Major League Baseball Draft, and signed.
Hee was the only player from the WAC to earn first-team West Region honors.
Former San Diego State player Troy Hanzawa, a Mid-Pacific alum and former Rainbow, was the second-team gold glover at shortstop.
GOLF
3 FROM HAWAI'I MISS CUT AT GEORGIA EVENT
Hawai'i pros Kevin Hayashi, Ron Castillo and Kirk Nelson missed the cut yesterday at the 41st PGA Professional Championship in Lake Oconee, Ga.
Hayashi, a pro at Mauna Kea on the Big Island, shot a 4-over-par 76 for a two-day 3-over 147, tying for 92nd and missing the cut by a stroke. Castillo, of Princeville (Kaua'i), shot a 73 and tied for 211th at 152. Nelson, a Makena (Maui) pro, shot an 87 and finished tied for 298th at 162.
Scott Hebert shot a 71 on the Great Waters course to take a one-stroke lead.
The 39-year-old Hebert, a former Ferris State player based at Grand Traverse Resort & Spa in Michigan, had a 6-under 138.
MIXED MARTIAL ARTS
MAUI'S GROVE IN ULTIMATE FIGHTER FINAL
Kendall Grove of Maui will face Evan Tanner of Texas in the main event of The Ultimate Fighter 7 Finale mixed martial arts card today at Las Vegas.
Grove, winner of The Ultimate Fighter 3 reality television show, has a professional record of 10-5, but is coming off two knockout losses.
Tanner is 34-8, and is a former UFC middleweight world champion. He has lost three of his last four bouts, including a knockout loss to Japan's Yushin Okami in March.
Today's event will be televised nationally on the Spike TV cable station. Preliminary bouts will start at 6 p.m. (Hawai'i time).
AKEBONO TO PROMOTE K-1 EVENT IN HAWAI'I
After failing to impress in the K-1 ring, Akebono will look to make his mark as a promoter of the mixed martial arts sport.
The former sumo grand champion will serve as a promoter of the K-1 World Grand Prix in his native Hawai'i on Aug. 9, according to the Nikkan Sports newspaper.
Akebono, whose real name is Chad Rowan, became the first foreign wrestler to reach sumo's highest rank of grand champion before retiring in 2001 and briefly serving as a sumo trainer.
He took up a career in K-1 in 2003, but managed only one win in 13 bouts.
K-1 combines elements of kickboxing, karate, taekwondo and other martial arts.
