Hawaii Beat

By Star-Bulletin Staff

Tuesday, July 22, 1997

Ljungquist wins
Bates Award

DENVER -- Hawaii volleyball star Angelica Ljungquist and Texas-El Paso sprinter Obadele Thompson were named winners of the 1996-97 Stan Bates Awards, the Western Athletic Conference announced Monday.

The annual awards, given to the WAC's top female and male senior scholar athletes, are presented in honor of former WAC commissioner Stan Bates.

Ljungquist, the National Volleyball Player of the Year who now plays on the California beach circuit, guided the Rainbow Wahine to a second-place finish at the NCAA Championships last year.

In her only WAC season, Ljungquist, a 1997 graduate with a 3.51 GPA and a bachelor's degree in political science, set the conference single-season mark with 108 blocks and an average of 2.20 blocks per game.

Her performance earned her WAC Player of the Year honors in the Pacific Division.

Thompson, a native of Bridgetown, Barbados, broke the collegiate indoor track record in the 55-meter dash with a 5.99 time last season. He won the NCAA championship in the indoor 200-meter dash, posting a collegiate record 20.36 time. He also earned national crowns in the outdoor 100- and 200-meter dashes last year and was named the NCAA Male Indoor Athlete of the Year.

During his four-year collegiate career, Thompson, who represented Barbados in the 1996 Summer Olympics, won four NCAA titles and 14 WAC championships.

With a major in economics and a minor in marketing, Thompson has a cumulative grade-point average of 3.90.

TOMORI LEADS BY TWO: Christel Tomori shot a 76 to take a two-stroke lead for low-gross honors in the Waialae Women's Invitational golf tournament at the Waialae Country Club.

Tied for second with 78s going into today's final round were Makoto Kamio, last year's low-gross winner, and Marie Miyashiro.

Faith Inoshita, a WCC member playing in C-Flight, was the overall low-net winner with a 63. Penny Wells, also of Waialae and playing in B-Flight, had a net 65.

The low-gross and low-net winners will be declared co-champions in the 42nd annual event.

MOVERS POUND SHUTO: Scooter Martines and Kazutoya Abe each had three hits and drove in three runs and scored two apiece to lead the Hawaii Island Movers to a 13-4 baseball win over the Shuto League All-Stars of Japan last night at Rainbow Stadium.

All of Abe's hits were doubles, while Martines had a triple among his.

SOCCER TOURNAMENT STARTS: The Hawaii International Cup, a 48-team soccer tournament for 48 boys' and girls' teams from under-8 to under-19, starts tomorrow at Kapiolani Park at 1 p.m.

Teams from Taiwan and the mainland will join the 38 Hawaii teams in the competition, which ends Sunday morning.