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U.S. women fend off Japan in volleyball
Advertiser Staff
Without starters Robyn Ah Mow-Santos and Logan Tom, the U.S. women's national team held off Japan, 27-29, 25-18, 18-25, 25-16, 15-13, Sunday to conclude the opening preliminary weekend of the FIVB World Grand Prix at Kobe, Japan. Both teams are 2-1.
Tayyiba Haneef-Park scored eight of her match-high 21 points in the fifth set.
"Tayyiba is a big part of the offense," said Team USA captain Lindsey Berg, a Punahou graduate. "We really need her and it is great when she can step up and win a game for us."
Team USA, ranked fourth in the world, begins the second weekend of preliminary matches against Thailand on Friday at Wroclaw, Poland. Teams have the option of adjusting rosters for each World Grand Prix preliminary round.
The U.S. team includes Berg and former Rainbow Wahine All-Americans Ah Mow, Heather Bown and Kim Willoughby. Berg, Bown and Willoughby started against Japan, with Willoughby scoring nine points, Bown seven and Berg two, with 26 assists. Willoughby was also a primary passer.
The World Grand Prix Finals, a round-robin format of the top five teams from the preliminary round plus host Japan, will be played July 9 to 13 at Yokohama.
The Americans will face only one team — Italy — ranked among the top seven teams during the preliminary rounds.
ROOSEVELT ALUM OGOSHI TO COACH AT HOFSTRA
Hofstra head volleyball coach Kristina Hernandez announced yesterday that Roosevelt graduate Shellane Ogoshi will be the Pride's new assistant coach. Ogoshi ended a decorated Hofstra career in 2007 and graduated in May with degrees in international business and finance.
She was a four-year starter for Hofstra and finished as the school's career leader in assists and digs, In 2006, she led the Pride to the NCAA second round for the first time in history. The year before she was Colonial Athletic Association Player of the Year and an AVCA All-America honorable mention.
Ogoshi was also a two-time ESPN The Magazine/CoSIDA Academic All-District selection and three-time recipient of the CAA's Commissioner's Academic Award. She has worked with Pakela Volleyball Club here and Club Asics Long Island, in New York, since 2004.
HALL OF FAME
AH YAT TO BE HONORED AT LINFIELD CEREMONY
Honolulu's Tony Ah Yat is one of six former Linfield College athletes who will be inducted into the school's athletics Hall of Fame.
Ah Yat, a Kamehameha Schools alum, played defensive end and graduated from Linfield in 1965. He was a first team All-American in 1963 and a second team pick in 1964, while playing for former University of Hawai'i athletic director Paul Durham.
Others who will be inducted are Dan Beeson '70 of Lake Oswego, Ore.; Floyd Halvorsen '86 of Beaverton, Ore.; Toby Robillard '76 of Virginia Beach, Va.; The late Kyle Tarpenning '83, formerly of Eugene, Ore.; and Bill Wallin '63 of Portland, Ore.
The group will be inducted Nov. 8, at the annual AT&T Wireless Hall of Fame banquet, which follows the Linfield-Western Oregon football game.
BOXING
CHAZZETTE, MANUTULILA CAPTURE NATIONAL TITLES
Hawai'i's boxers dominated their finals to win Junior Olympic National Championships Friday at the Superior Dome in Marquette, Mich. Kihei's Sau Chazzette captured the 119-pound women's division and Honolulu's Faleauto Manutulila won at 176 pounds.
Chazzette's bantamweight bout with San Jose's Serina Aguilar was stopped at 1:15 of the second round. Chazzette jumped to a 10-3 lead in the first round and added another 10 points in the second to move to a 15-point lead when it was stopped.
Manutulila won a 13-1 decision over Otis Brown, of St. Louis, in light heavyweight action.
GOLF
ISAGAWA, SAWADA LEAD PGA JUNIORS AT KAHILI
Wailuku's Cassy Isagawa shot a career-best 6-under-par 66 yesterday and takes a five-shot advantage into today's final round of the PGA Junior Series at Kahili Golf Course. Isagawa has a two-day total of 141. Mililani's Jared Sawada leads the boys division at 73—142.
Isagawa, who said her putting "was on fire," eagled the par-5 ninth and 12th holes. State high school champion Kristina Merkle (73—146) is second thanks to a chip-in eagle at the par-4 10th. Anna Jang (73) and Marissa Chow (72) share third at 149.
Sawada birdied three out of four around the turn to take a three-shot advantage over Wailuku's Taeksoo Kim (70—145), who holds the course record at Kahili (65). Alika Bell (75—148) is third.
The final round begins at 7:30 a.m. today.
