I was waiting for somebody else to do to all the work, but since
I don't see it yet, here are some quick results from the Pac Rim
Tournament.

The first match was the team from Korea vs. Nike USA.  Nike USA,
as mentioned in the Star Bulletin article, was short of players
and the roster consisted largely of local players who probably
would not have seem too much action with Team USA.  

   http://www.starbulletin.com/97/07/24/sports/story3.html

The P.A. system was less intelligible than a Burger King 
drive-through, and the program lacked the player numbers 
for Nike, but some of the players were Kalei Chun-DelaCruz
(the setter), Matt Dennison, and Trapper Perkins.  The 
mainland players on the roster were Tony Knopp, Tim O'Connell,
and Tom Tegethoff.  And I think I heard Jake Harris and Caleb
Fetui announced during the game.  Jacob Pacarro saw some back
row duty.

The Nike/Hawaii squad tried, but the South Korean team (listed
as In-Ha University) showed a good quick attack and some 
amazing digs.  Most of the Korean team were in the 6'0"
to 6'2" range.  In particular, No. 11 (Kim kun-tai) and No. 14
(Ham kyu-shik) stood out.  In-Ha won in 3 straight sets.

The match took about 1 hour and 10 minutes.  During the game,
the crowd grew to maybe 500 people.  The big thing I noticed
going back to Klum (vs. the Special Events Arena) is that you
can really hear the boom of the ball when it is being whacked
by a hitter.

The second match pitted Team Alberta (Canada) vs. Team Hawaii
which was essentially an all-star squad consisting of recent
graduates and university sophomores-to-be.

Alberta's squad is the tallest in the tournament with most
players 6'5" to 6'7".  Their setter was 6'5" Peter Findlay.

Team Hawaii started Justin Oleole (Pearl City) at setter, 
along with Clay Stanley (Kaiser, U.H.), Adam Black (Mililani,
CSUN), Scott Wong (Punahou, Pepperdine bound), Milo Hanneberg
(Kapaa), and Elijan Neverdon (University High, U.H bound).
Rounding out the bench were Craig Gamble (Punahou), Koa
Ostrem (Punahou, UCLA), and Mike Wilton (University High,
BYU bound).

Most impressive hitter in warmups was Neverdon.

Hawaii got off to an early 7-1 lead and hung on to win the
first game 15-11.  Scott Wong looked unstoppable and Clay 
Stanley seemed to have picked up his game a notch from his
freshman year at U.H.

Hawaii got off to another good start in game two and won
15-5.  They seemed to be going in cruise control and the
prospects looked good for another straight-set match.

Gamble started the third game, and Wilton and Ostrem saw
a lot of action in the middle to latter part of the game.
Canada got and held the lead for most of the match, but 
Hawaii fought back with some impressive jump serving by 
Oleole and Stanley, and had match point at 15-14 (I think).
However Canada held off match point and won 17-15.

The starters were back in for Hawaii in the fourth
game.  But the huge Canadian block showed up and Hawaii
fell apart making numerous unforced errors.  Canada
won going away 15-4.  The Hawaii team seemed
tired.

It was more of the same in the fifth game.  Whereas
Wong and Stanley had been nearly unstoppable in the
first three games, their spikes now found Canadian
blocks in the fourth and fifth games.  Hawaii lost
15-9.

Match time about 2:15.

Though disappointing, it was still an enjoyable evening
watching top-notch junior talent at Klum.

Hmmm... I thought this was going to be short..

- mike

Update:  OK, the "real" story of this event can now be found at

  http://www.starbulletin.com/today/sports/satsports.html

to be moved later to 

  http://www.starbulletin.com/97/07/25/sports/satsports.html