The
Milwaukee
Brewers picked Quintin
Torres-Costa in the
35th round of the Major
League Baseball draft,
where player value and
signing bonuses are not
always equal.
The UH-Manoa left-
hander is a draft-eligible
redshirt sophomore with
two more years of college
eligibility, but he’s at the
peak of his bargaining
leverage.
Most 35th-round draft
picks or those in lower
rounds don’t sign or get a
signing bonus of $1,000,
said Dave Matranga, an
agent for PSI Sports.
Last year, just six of the
30 players selected in the
35th round of the draft
signed.
“The normal range
for that round is $1,000
to
$20,000,”
said
Matranga, who’s serving
as an advisor to the 2012
Waiakea graduate. “Most
guys don’t sign or sign for
$1,000.
“It’s Quintin’s best
chance to make any
money this year. I’m
pushing for the top
range, and get the rest of
his school paid.”
WINNIPEG, Manitoba
— Meghan Klingenberg
— not Hope Solo —made
the biggest save of the
night for the United
States.
Klingenberg, a dimin-
utive defender, leaped to
head a shot by Sweden’s
Caroline Seger. The ball
hit the crossbar and car-
omed away from the goal.
Goal-line technology
was used to confirm the
ball never crossed the
line.
The save in the 77th
minute preserved the
0-0 draw with Sweden
on Friday night in one
of the most anticipated
group-stage matches at
the Women’s World Cup.
“Brilliant,”
U.S.
coach Jill Ellis said of
Klingenberg’s heroics.
“Believe it or not, we
actually practice that.”
The match had been
hyped beforehand as the
showdown between the
second-ranked United
States and former coach
Pia Sundhage, now coach
of No. 5 Sweden. It did
not disappoint in the furi-
ous second half.
Abby
Wambach
came off the bench, but
her header in the 72nd
minute was popped up
and over the crossbar
by Swedish goalkeeper
Hedvig Lindahl.
A win would have
assured the United States
a spot in the knockout
round as the Americans
seek their third World
Cup title, but first since
1999. The U.S. women
advanced to the final four
years ago in Germany, but
lost to Japan on penalty
kicks.
The United States
has one more group
stage match, on Tuesday
in Vancouver, British
Columbia,
against
Nigeria. Sweden heads to
Edmonton, Alberta, for
its final group match with
Australia. The month-
long tournament, with
an expanded field of 24
teams, is being played in
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Warriors
vets handled
lineup switch
with grace
BY DIAMOND LEUNG
TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE
CLEVELAND — After
the first 100 games of the
season, Warriors coach
Steve Kerr boldly unveiled
a new lineup in the
NBA Finals that includ-
ed Andre Iguodala and
benched Andrew Bogut.
In reaction, the veteran
players quietly went about
their business.
“He just nodded his
head and said, ‘All right,
let’s go,’ ” Kerr said of
Iguodala.
“All he said is, ‘If we
win, I don’t care,’ ” for-
ward Draymond Green
said of Bogut.
The switcheroo worked
as the Warriors crushed
the Cavaliers in Game 4
of the Finals to even the
series. Now two wins away
from a championship, the
Warriors recalled how
their magical season took
place against the back-
drop of sacrifices made
by players willing to trust
their rookie coach.
“Because
everyone’s
been so selfless, that’s
what’s allowed us to be
successful,” Warriors for-
ward Harrison Barnes
said.
Iguodala conceded his
starting spot to Barnes
this season and didn’t get
back into the lineup until
Thursday’s 103-82 win
put him in the conversa-
tion for Finals MVP.
Kerr reasoned that
Iguodala’s presence in
the lineup would help
improve the Warriors’
pace against the Cavaliers,
and it did. Kerr theorized
in the regular season
that having Barnes start
instead of Iguodala would
allow Barnes to flourish
after a rough second year
in the league, and that
worked as well.
“I thought it set a tone
for our team from the
beginning, a sacrifice,”
Kerr said.
David Lee, after recov-
ering from an injury at the
start of the season, became
the second former All-
Star to accept a reduced
role. Green was having a
breakout year, leaving Lee
at times completely out of
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HHSAA regionals get rest until 2017
Introduced on a trial basis two
years ago, the HHSAA regionals
were at times a hit on the Big
Island. Konawaena scored a rare
Division I girls soccer victory for
the BIIF in February when it
beat Kaiser in Kealakekua, while
Kamehameha recorded a rous-
ing boys volleyball victory against
Kamehameha-Kapalama in 2014.
In at least one instance, the
regionals were a miss. Konawaena
hosted Mililani in girls basketball
in 2014, but the game, a Wildcats’
loss at Kealakehe, didn’t carry the
same luster as if it would have been
at the Wildcats’ gym.
Either way, the regional format
will take a year off.
BIIF executive director Lyle
Crozier said the league didn’t make
a regional pitch at the Hawaii
Interscholastic Athletic Directors
Association meetings at Hilton
Waikoloa Village, though it sup-
ported an ILH measure for a soft-
ball regional in 2016. The state
ADs approved it Wednesday, but
a day later the HHSAA executive
board overturned the decision,
delaying it until 2017.
“The OIA wanted more informa-
tion,” Crozier said. “That was great
for the kids when Konawaena (soc-
cer) won that regional.
“(Softball) will be revisited.”
The regional is far from set in
stone in 2017 since the format
could always get nixed at next
year’s HIADAmeetings. A commit-
tee that includes BIIF ADs Kimo
Weaver (Kamehameha) and Tom
Correa (Waiakea) will study its
implementation, Crozier said.
If there is one sport in which
BIIF teams could use home-field
advantage it’s softball. Division I
teams are on a 20-game losing
streak at states.
In other news:
• The executive board also struck
down an HIADA measure that
would have cut the number of boys
and girls wrestling weight classes
from 14 to 12.
“We were in favor of cutting it
down to 12,” Crozier said. “It comes
down to competition. We don’t
have enough to fill a lot of those
classes, especially on the girls side.”
•
One
proposal
passed
Wednesday calls for the host venue
of the HHSAA bowling champion-
ships to have at least 22 lanes, effec-
tively taking KBXtreme, which has
16 lanes, out of the mix.
Normally a two-day tournament,
Agent hopes to get top
dollar for Torres-Costa
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HAWAII TRIBUNE-HERALD
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WAHINES TIP OFF
Teams from the Big
Island, Maui and Oahu
made the trip to Kailua-
Kona for the open-
ing day the 7th annu-
al Stingrays Wahine
Basketball Tournament
at Kekuaokalani Gym.
The tournament con-
sists of three youth
divisions — 12-under,
14-under and high school.
The tourney was filled
will talent on Day 1, with
teams in the high school
division that comprised
of members of the reign-
ing HHSAA Division I
championship
team
Konawaena, Division I
runner-up Lahainaluna,
and the Division II cham-
pion Honokaa.
The Stingrays, which
opened the tourney with
a big win, are loaded
with Wildcat members
from that championship
squad, including all three
Molina sisters, Chanelle,
Cherilyn and Celena.
Mikayla Tablit and
Mercedes “Ihi” Victor
are also on the team. The
Wildcats defeated the
Lunas in the champion-
ship game last year, and
a rematch could happen
Sunday after pool play.
Honokaa might have
hoped they could avoid
playing the team from
Maui after getting beat-
en handily on Friday by
Lahainaluna. The D-II
champion was no match
for the Lunas, falling
behind 22-0 before the
scoring drought finally
ended with 4:56 to go in
the first half with a free
throw by Taylor Sullivan.
The game was 28-4 at
the half and Lahainaluna
went on to win, 49-17.
“I was a little disap-
pointed with how we
played, especially from
the returnees,” Honokaa
coach Cheyenne Meyers
said. “We were really
casual, laid back, scared,
but they are big. You have
to give them credit. They
are bigger than a lot of
high school boys teams.”
Lahainaluna looked
strong in its first game of
the summer tournament.
The Lunas coach has been
coming to the Big Island
for several years and the
trip itself is something that
the girls enjoy.
“We don’t have too
many tournaments on
Maui so this gives them
something positive to
look forward to instead
of doing drills all the
time,” Lunas coach Todd
Rickard said. “A lot of
teams get involved with
this tournament and it is
a good place to come and
play basketball.”
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TOP: 808’s
Feary Camille
reaches in and
knocks the
ball away from
Honokaa’s
Kaliana
Salazar-Harrell
during a
12-under game
on Friday.
BOTTOM:
Honokaa’s
Taylor Souza
tries to throw
an inbound
pass in a high
school division
game.
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