Rainbow Wahine volleyball tickets on sale

Season tickets for the Rainbow Wahine volleyball season are on sale at the Stan Sheriff Center box office and online (HawaiiAthletics.com). Prices range from $75 for upper-level student tickets to $165 for lower-level seats, which also require an Ahahui Koa Anuenue premium seat contribution of $100 or $120 depending on seat location.

Upper-level adult season tickets are $120 and senior citizens (65-older) are $110. The box office is open 9 a.m to 5 p.m. weekdays and also takes calls at 944-2697.

Koa Anuenue is still offering preferred seating packages that include VIP parking and prime seating.For more information, call 956-6500 or purchase online KoaAnuenue.org.

Kansas’ Weis makes offer to Tabuyo

Norm Chow and his staff at the University of Hawaii are pounding the pavement statewide, but there’s still plenty of competition for local talent.

In fact, former Notre Dame coach Charlie Weis is reaching out to the islands for some of this year’s elite talent. Weis, hired by Kansas in December, offered Saint Louis wide receiver Jeremy Tabuyo, a senior-to-be, a scholarship Monday. Tabuyo, who suffered an ACL injury last fall, was electronically timed at 4.43 seconds in the 40-yard dash last week at the PIAA football combine.

Tabuyo isn’t the first to get an offer from Weis. Kansas has already offered to two other seniors-to-be, offensive lineman Reeve Koehler and defensive end Kamalei Correa, according to PIAA executive director Doris Sullivan. Defensive end Ualesi Sale of Aiea, also class of 2013, has also received an offer from the Jayhawks.

Ching falls short in U.S. Open qualifier

Honolulu’s Alex Ching came up two shots short at the U.S. Open sectional qualifier in Daly City, Calif., on Monday. It was one of 10 sectionals conducted across the country. The final qualifier, in Memphis, Tenn., was postponed because of rain and is scheduled today.

Ching opened with a 1-under-par 71 at TPC Harding Park in the morning. The 2009 Hawaii high school champion came back with a 3-under 69 in the afternoon at Lake Merced. That left him tied for 11th, with the top seven advancing at 138 or better.

He was the last Hawaii golfer who had a shot at playing in this year’s U.S. Open, next week at Olympic Club in San Francisco.

Parker McLachlin (70-71), the 1996 state high school champion, finished 12th at the sectional in Summit, N.J., where four players advanced. Nick Mason (76-71), a Leilehua graduate, tied for 19th at Rockville, Md., where 78 played for seven spots. Makawao’s Sam Cyr (75-74) was 36th at the same site.

Ching had the best finish of five Hawaii golfers in Daly City. Wailuku pro Garrett Okamura (74-71) finished 52nd. Isaac Jaffurs shot 80-74 and Justin Keiley 80-77, while Kihei pro Kirk Nelson had rounds of 79-79.

In Creswell, Ore., 2007 state high school champion Sean Maekawa (79-74) failed to advance. Chan Kim, the 2006 state high school champion, opened with an 80 and withdrew.

Casey Martin was medalist in Creswell, earning him a return to the U.S. Open 14 years after he famously played in the major while riding in a cart. Martin, now the University of Oregon men’s golf coach, has a birth defect that limits blood flow to his right leg, making it painful to walk.

Feldmann, Stubblefield win Pro-Pro title

Andrew Feldmann and Larry Stubblefield shot a 5-under-par 67 in the final round of the Aloha Section PGA’s Kaanapali Pro-Pro Championship for a two-day total of 132. They won by a shot over David Braxton and Kyle Hayashi, who opened with a 9-under 61 on Sunday at the Kaanapali Kai Course but shot even-par 72 on Monday at Royal Kaanapali.