The No. 15 Hawaii Hilo men’s tennis team advanced to the NCAA Division II Championships after defeating Point Loma 5-3 on Monday in the West Regional at the Holua Tennis Center.
The Vulcans’ Alessandro Giuliato, Chun En Wu, Alex Fillat Perez and Arturo Dell’eva won singles matches. Vaclav Slezak and Giuliato won in doubles.
Hilo will be making its second appearance at the NCAA tournament, which will be May 9-12 in Surprise, Ariz.
The Vulcans will find out Wednesday who their first-round opponent will be in the 16-team field.
HPU women’s tennis earns No. 2 seed
The Hawaii Pacific women’s tennis team on Monday was awarded the No. 2 seed for the NCAA Division II Championships to be held May 8-11 in Surprise, Ariz.
The Sharks (19-2) will face Midwestern State (Texas) (19-5) in the round of 16 on May 8.
The winner will face either Missouri-St. Louis or Queens (N.Y.) the following day.
Barry (Fla.), the defending national champion, is the top seed. Columbus State (Ga.) is No. 3 and West Florida is No. 4.
Hawaii Pacific has reached the D-II semifinals in four of the past five seasons.
UH’s Arcano tied for 16th at Big West
Hawaii’s Justin Arcano is tied for 16th and the Rainbow Warriors are ninth and last after Monday’s second round of the Big West Men’s Golf Championship in Industry Hills, Calif.
Arcano, of Wailuku, Maui, shot a 1-over-par 73 and sits at 1-over 145 for the tournament at “Ike” Eisenhower Course. The co-leaders are Cal State Fullerton’s Martin Manalo and UC Santa Barbara’s Brandon Bauman at 139.
Hawaii is at 33-over 609. Cal State Fullerton leads at 569.
