BYUH women place second at nationals

Armstrong Atlantic overcame Brigham Young-Hawaii a second straight year to win the NCAA Division II tennis championship Saturday at Surprise, Ariz.

This one was just as painful as the last for the third-ranked Seasiders (28-2), whose women’s team owns nine national titles (NCAA and NAIA). They have now gone six years without, falling to Armstrong in three of the last four finals.

The second-ranked Pirates (31-1) won by the same 5-2 score as last year. Also like last year, they captured two of the three doubles points, then lost the first set of all but one singles match.

Armstrong rallied, clinching a record eighth D-II title by winning a second-set tiebreaker at No. 3 singles, then capturing the third set on the Nos. 4 and 6 courts.

The other two matches were early in the third set when it ended.

The Seasiders’ only victories came on the No. 1 courts. Top-ranked Annie Hwang and Sherry Liu won 8-6 in doubles, and Hwang blitzed third-ranked Aleksandra Filipovski 6-1, 6-1 in singles.

Hwang ended her career with a record of 83-1 in singles. She was ranked second this season and named ITA Senior Player of the Year earlier in the week.

Alvarez wins triple jump as UH takes fourth

Amanda Alvarez, a junior from Vancouver, Wash., went 42 feet, 31⁄4 inches Saturday to win the triple jump and lead the Rainbow Wahine to a fourth-place finish in the nine-team Big West Conference women’s track and field championships at Northridge, Calif.

Hawaii totaled 76.5 points in the two-day event, trailing UC Davis (172.5), UC Santa Barbara (128.5) and Cal State Northridge (127).

Other top Wahine marks included a second place by junior Joanna Frank-Kuhn in the hammer at 189-2 and a third place by sophomore Alex Porlier-Langlois in the shot put at 49-11⁄2.

UH had two fifth-place finishes — freshman Charlinda Ioane in the discus (157-9) and junior Shayna Dockery in the javelin (127-3).

Hawaii Hilo eliminated in softball regional

Third-seeded Sonoma State needed only five innings Saturday to eliminate seventh-seeded Hawaii Hilo 8-0 in the NCAA Division II West Region 2 softball tournament at Saint George, Utah.

The Vulcans finished their season 39-19.