Chaminade wins at Notre Dame de Namur
Kim Spring pounded 14 kills to lead the Chaminade women’s volleyball team to a 25-14, 21-25, 25-20, 25-16 win over Notre Dame de Namur in PacWest play on Tuesday in Belmont, Calif.
Whitney Viveiros and Matia Spencer added 11 kills apiece in the win for the Silverswords (6-9, 3-4 PWC). The Argonauts dropped to 1-14 and 0-6.
Chaminade hit .296 for the match.
BYUH volleyball moves up to 11th
The Brigham Young-Hawaii women’s volleyball team moved up to 11th from 12th in this week’s AVCA Division II rankings released on Monday.
BYUH (9-2 overall) received the bump after sweeping No. 13 Grand Canyon last week.
Local squad takes second in USTA event
A Waipahu team took second at the U.S. Tennis Association League 2.5 Adult National Championships, last weekend at the Mission Hills Country Club in Rancho Mirage, Calif.
Waipahu lost to Alamo (Calif.), 2-1, in the championship. The Hawaii team beat Memphis, Tenn., by the same score in a semifinal after winning its flight.
Team captains are Winieann Nishimiya and Sounthavy Minders. Others are Kaiewa Masuda, Maria Agamao and Susan Locquiao.
Five Hawaii teams advanced to national championships by winning USTA League Super Senior section championships last weekend at Patsy T. Mink CORP Tennis Complex.
KRC.com, captained by Susan Ashford, and Hi Life, captained by Rodney Takakawa, won the 8.0 women’s and men’s divisions. OK Hardware & Construction Supply (Vicky Chee) and Hana Hou (Clyde Miyasato) were victorious in 7.0. NaKolohe (Gerri Yoshida) won the lone 6.0 women’s division.
The teams will represent the section at USTA League National Championships in April.
Young wins national vote for tennis photo
Honolulu’s Curt Young captured a nationwide online vote conducted by the U.S. Tennis Association to win the “Create Your Own Tennis Court” Photo Contest. Young gets a trip for four to New York City to attend the 2013 U.S. Open.
Young’s winning photo was set up in Kapiolani Park with Diamond Head in the background. He used coconuts, palm fronds and flowers to create the “most unique” court utilizing the USTA’s 10 and Under Tennis Initiative.
“In Hawaii, we have lots of beautiful locales for ‘home-made’ tennis courts,” said Young. “We used coconuts to mark the boundaries, palm fronds and netting to form the Hawaiian-style net, warm sunshine to maximize our athletic prowess, and fragrant flowers to soothe our souls when we get crushed by our opponents.”
Young’s photo can be seen at createyourowntenniscourt.com.
In another online vote, Kamehameha graduate Angela Leong was named America’s Hottest (Female) Coach in the Tennis Channel’s inaugural contest. Leong runs the Leong Tennis Academy with husband Chris Leong, just outside of Portland.
Fujii excels in Croatia seniors event
Honolulu’s Lurline Fujii reached the doubles championship at the 32nd ITF Super Seniors World Individual Championships last month on the clay courts in Croatia.
Fujii and her partner, Charleen Hillebrand, were seeded second. They swept their first two matches, dropping just six games. Fujii and Hillebrand lost the opening set of their semifinal, then rallied to win the second, 6-1, and take the super-tiebreaker, 10-7.
They lost in the final to third-seeded Australians Judy Hancy and Margaret Wayte, 6-4, 6-4.
Earlier in the month, Fujii was part of the winning U.S. team in the Althea Gibson Cup (70-older women) division of the ITF Super Seniors World Team Championships, also in Croatia.
Bourne, Montgomery take silver on sand
Aiea’s Tri Bourne and partner Will Montgomery captured the silver medal Sunday at the NORCECA Beach Volleyball Circuit stop in Chula Vista, Calif.
Bourne and Montgomery lost the gold-medal match against Canada’s Chaim Schalk and Benjamin Saxton, 21-16, 21-15. The winners never trailed.
Bourne and Montgomery won their first four matches to get to the final.
