Moynahan leads by 3 in Aloha PGA tourney
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Brendan Moynahan of Hualalai Golf Club on the Big Island, shot a 4-under-par 68 to take the first-round lead at the Aloha Section PGA Professional championship at Makena Resorts South Course on Maui.
Moynahan, the head professional at Hualalai, was three strokes ahead of David Braxton of Elleair Maui Golf Club and Brian Sasada of Makena.
Rick Castillo of King Kamehameha Golf Club, Kevin Hayashi of Mauna Kea and Jerry King of Kapalua Golf Academy were tied at 73.
Thirty-five pros are playing for a purse of $12,000. The winner takes home $2,500 and earns points toward Governor's Cup selection and Section PGA Player of the Year.
The top three finishers also are eligible to represent Hawai'i at the PGA Professional National Championship, June 21 to 24, 2007 at Sunriver Resort in Oregon.
Casey Watabu of Kapa'a, Kaua'i, and Sean Maekawa of Pa'auilo, Hawai'i, each shot an even-par 72 and were tied for 18th after the first round of stroke play at the U.S. Amateur Public Links Championship at Gold Mountain Golf Club in Bremerton, Wash.
Mitch Cohlmia, of Tulsa, Okla., shot a 67 to take the first-round lead. J.C. Home of Daytona Beach, Fla., and Ben Fox of Studio City, Calif., were tied for second at 68.
Other Hawai'i golfers include Kevin Shimomura of Lahaina, Maui, (80, tied for 123rd) Chan Kim of Honolulu (81, tied for 129th) and Lee Sakugawa of Wailuku (82, tied for 136th).
The top 64 of 155 golfers after today's second round of stroke play advance to match play starting Wednesday.
The tournament concludes with a 36-hole match play final Saturday.
Mari Chun shot a 3-under 68 yesterday to take the top spot in qualifying for the Hawai'i State Women's Golf Association Match Play Championship at Oahu Country Club.
Chun, Cyd Okino (75) and Erin Matsuoka (76) received byes into the quarterfinals.
Desiree Ting, Jaclyn Hilea, Traci Kashiwabara-Abe, Lesly Ann Komoda and Kira-Ann Murashige won round of 16 matches to advance to today's quarterfinals.
Lightning of the San Francisco Yacht Club yesterday was in the overall lead as yachts neared the halfway point of the 14th Biennial West Marine Pacific Cup from San Francisco to Kane'ohe.
Lightning, Thomas Akin's Santa Cruz 52, also leads Division E, which features the fastest boats.
Other division leaders are Plus Sixteen (doublehanded); California Girl (Division A); Tutto Bene (Division B); ET (Division C) and Synge (Division D).
The first finishers are projecting to reach Kane'ohe Bay as early as Saturday.
Hawai'i's Asics Rainbows 18s and 13s boys teams tied for third in their respective divisions at the USA Volleyball Junior Olympic Tournament last weekend at Minneapolis.
Asics Rainbows 18s, who were the top seeds in the Gold Division, went 11-1, losing in the semifinals to Riptides Orange of California, 29-27, 25-21.
Asics Rainbows 13s (8-3) lost to Borinquen Coqui of Puerto Rico, 25-13, 25-9, in the semifinals.
Outrigger Canoe Club 18s lost to Seaside Black of California, 18-25, 25-19, 15-10, in the open division and finished fifth. Outrigger's Kawika Shoji and Spencer McLachlin were named to the all-tournament team.
Aleia Monden of Mililani finished sixth in the 1-meter at USA Diving's West Championships last weekend in Pasadena, Calif., to qualify for the Junior Nationals, July 26 to 30 at Indianapolis.
Monden, 17, was one of 12 to earn berths. She also will compete in the platform at the nationals.
Boxer Van Oscar Penovaroff of Kailua, Kona, will make his pro debut when he faces Beboy Cudeldiego in Manila on July 15, according to his chief trainer Bruce Kawano.
Cudeldiego also will be making his pro debut. Kawano said Penovaroff will fight at between 130 and 135 pounds.
Penovaroff, 24, has been training at the U.S. Olympic Education Center in Marquette, Mich., the past three years.
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