CLEVELAND — Kris Bryant
and Kyle Schwarber provided a
major boost to the Chicago Cubs’
offense on Wednesday night.
Bryant had a grand slam and
Schwarber was 4 for 5, includ-
ing his first major league hit
and RBI, and the Cubs hit four
home runs to rout the Cleveland
Indians 17-0.
The Cubs scored seven times
in the ninth inning, which ended
with Indians position players
Ryan Raburn and David Murphy
pitching.
The offensive outburst was the
most runs scored in a shutout win
by the Cubs since they blanked
San Diego 19-0 on May 13, 1969.
The Indians suffered their
most lopsided defeat since losing
23-2 at Minnesota on June 4,
2002.
Chicago’s rising young stars
stole the show on the offense’s
big night.
“They’re going to keep get-
ting better,” Cubs manager Joe
Maddon said. “I’m telling you,
man, that was a nice night. You
get a glimpse of what it looks like
when everybody’s here.”
Schwarber, the fourth pick in
last year’s draft who was called
up Tuesday, tripled in the second
Back when she played
BIIF basketball, Kira De
Morales had a distinctive
style, not seen in the long
history of the league.
The 2008 Waiakea
graduate shot her free
throws with one hand,
and they went in. When
she used two hands, she
was often off-target.
Even as a youngster,
De Morales always had a
good right hand, and not
just for basketball but for
boxing, too.
Her dad Albert Rosas
taught her boxing early
on, but De Morales didn’t
get serious until her
younger brother Kieran
Rosas started in 2008.
The
5-foot-10
De
Morales has developed
a distinctive boxing style
with her length, and sharp
right hand.
She’s flattened enough
opponents to not only win
the Golden Gloves in the
152-pound weight class
last year, but also position
herself for a spot on the
U.S. Olympic team for the
2016 Games in Rio.
With a 72-inch reach,
De Morales is 7-0 as an
amateur boxer. Last year,
she was also the Ringside
National champion in
the 165-pound weight
class, and won the Adidas
Tournament and Desert
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BY DOUG FERGUSON
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
A long
walk
awaits at
Chambers
Bay
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HAWAII TRIBUNE-HERALD
BY RYAN LEWIS
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
De Morales eying 2016 Rio Games
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The Big Island Sports
Hall of Fame soon will
have a new home at
Prince Kuhio Plaza. The
next step is to find new
members.
The organization is
accepting nominations
for its first class since
2011 as it moves forward
after a period marked
by uncertainty and
underfunding.
“The turning point was
we got enough donations
for professional installers
and guys to put (pictures)
up,” said Jerry Chang,
president of the nonprof-
it BISHOF. “We’re very
happy right now. The big-
gest problem we’ve had is
funding.”
Chang was hopeful
that by October the class
of 2015 could be unveiled
along with a rededicat-
ing ceremony for the rest
of the hall’s members at
a new Wall of Fame to
be located in the area
across from the movie
theater at Prince Kuhio
Plaza. Pictures of the 128
inductees have been in
storage since the past
summer when the Wall
of Fame at the mall was
displaced to make way for
the construction of a Pier
1 Imports store.
Chang said the rent
will be double the $250
monthly fee the organiza-
tion paid at the old loca-
tion, but he said the new
site was preferable in size
and scope.
“We are thankful to
Prince Kuhio Plaza man-
agement for allowing us
to re-install the new wall
in a more visible area,”
said Chang, who cited
KTA Super Stores as a
major contributor.
BISHOF is accepting
nominations
through
Aug. 14, but don’t submit
nationally known names
such Kolten Wong, Max
Unger or BJ Penn just
yet.
Respecting the bylaws
set forth by founder Jack
Matsui, nominees are
required to have at least
20 years of volunteer
involvement in athletics,
either as a coach, teacher
or mentor.
“We were comfort-
able with keeping those
requirements,” Chang
said.
While the hall’s home
is in East Hawaii, Chang
stressed that the orga-
nization’s intent was to
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CUBS CRUSH INDIANS
Storage woes over, Hall of Fame accepting nominations
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HAWAII TRIBUNE-HERALD
Chicago Cubs’ Chris Denorfia is congratulated by David Ross and Starlin Castro after a three-run home run off Cleveland
Indians relief pitcher Ryan Webb on Wednesday
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INDIANS PITCHING DISMANTLED
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Kira De Morales is flanked by her boxing coach
Sergio Mamone, left, and her dad Albert Rosas.
SPECIALTOWESTHAWAIITODAY
UNIVERSITY PLACE,
Wash. — These might
be some of the longest
rounds in the U.S. Open,
and it won’t all be down to
slow play.
Chambers Bay is a long
hike even without clubs.
USGA executive direc-
tor Mike Davis set the
time par at 4 hours, 45
minutes, which is not
close to what anyone is
expecting a threesome to
get around in for 18 holes.
Time par is merely used
as a gauge to determine
if a group that falls out of
position (such as an entire
hole behind) should be
warned for slow play.
Don’t be surprised if
actual time for the later
groups is pushing six
hours.
Davis said the aver-
age
walking
time
between greens and tees
at Chambers Bay is 21
minutes.
“Put that in perspec-
tive,” Davis said. “Last year
at Pinehurst, we had 13½
minutes. Merion the year
before, 11 minutes. So we
had to add some time to
that. And then obvious-
ly, it’s a U.S. Open. It’s a
tough test of golf.”
Davis said the USGA
staff would have plen-
ty of help from the PGA
Tour and European Tour
to help monitor the pace
of play, and that players
might be asked to clear
the green once they all are
on the putting surface to
let the group behind tee
off on par 3s and drivable
par 4s.
The lead groups are
critical to set a good pace,
and the time par mainly
will apply to them. But
with 26 groups of three-
somes going on both
sides, morning and after-
noon, odds are it will slow
down during the course of
the day.
HOME
TEAM:
Washington would rare-
ly be considered a hotbed
state for golf because of
the gray, drizzly condi-
tions for the majority of
the year.
Slowly that perception
has changed with more
PGA Tour players from
the Pacific Northwest
and the rise in profile of
