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This year’s Hawaiian International Billfish Tournament will run from July 30 to Aug. 6.

UH-Hilo will face Azusa Pacific on Saturday, with the women’s game kicking off the doubleheader at 5 p.m. ESPN Radio will air both men’s and women’s games.

Hilo native Aaron Gold finished in eleventh place.

Kona’s Shane Dorian is one of 28 competitors that have been given the official green light for the Quiksilver In Memory of Eddie Aikau, which starts at 8 a.m. Thursday.

Senior Nate Walker recorded the first triple-double in program history, helping UH-Hilo pick up its fourth straight victory.

Victoria Garcia leads the University of Hawai’i at Hilo women’s softball team in batting average (.429), home runs (2), and runs batted in (18).

Salim Gloyd scored UH-Hilo’s last 11 points on Saturday to energize a comeback win over Hawaii’i Pacific, keeping the Vulcans’ postseason hopes alive.

A seven-run sixth inning pushed Waiakea to a 10-run victory in the championship game of the Stanley Costales Sr. Invitational Baseball Tournament.

Sawada was UH-Hilo’s top golfer at the Lady Rattler Round-up, hosted by St. Mary’s (TX) at the Dominion Country Club in San Antonio, Texas.

BJ Penn’s website issued a statement of its own, saying that it is “unfortunate that someone that BJ considered family is trying to extort him.”

Jordan Kurokawa was selected as the West Region’s Pitcher of the Week, but fell short of earning the national award for his two-hit win over Hawai’i.

Chaminade’s Chelsea Camello kept Saint Martin’s off the scoreboard on Saturday, earning her the PacWest’s Pitcher of the Week award in softball.

For the fourth time in his career, Jordan Kurokawa was named PacWest Pitcher of the Week.

Every Rainbow Warrior position player got a base hit as Hawai’i held off little brother Hawai’i-Hilo on Sunday afternoon.

Kea’au High School graduate Jonathan Segovia knocked in the only run of the game in the seventh inning to help defeat Hawai’i.

Honoka’a will face St. Joseph on Saturday night for the Big Island Interscholastic Federation Division II championship at the Afook-Chinen Civic Auditorium.

Saydee Aganus scored 16 points to lead Kamehameha-Hawai’i to the semifinals of the OC16/HHSAA Division II Girls Basketball Championships.

Damien Packer, a 2012 graduate of Kea’au High, earned a 3.00 GPA during the 2015 fall semester.

Despite poor free throw shooting, the Kohala Cowgirls notched its first win in any girls basketball state tournament since beating Honoka’a in 1991.

Despite complaints from several Oahu parents, this week’s basketball and swimming state tournaments will continue as planned in East Hawai’i.