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Okino, Sakamoto advance to today's match-play final
Advertiser Staff
Cyd Okino will go after her second Hawai'i State Women's Match Play Championship in four years this morning at Oahu Country Club against recent Kalani graduate Nicole Sakamoto.
Both won twice yesterday. In the afternoon semifinals, Okino defeated Katie Sisler, 7 and 6. Sisler, who reached the match play final last year, was coming off a victory at State Stroke Play.
Sakamoto also dominated her semifinal, beating 2006 State Stroke Play champion Jaclyn Hilea, 5 and 4.
In the morning quarterfinals, Sisler defeated Alina Ching and Okino beat Traci Kashiwabara-Ayabe by 3 and 2 scores. Sakamoto ousted Sara Koizumi, 6 and 5, and Hilea defeated Xyra Suyetsugu, 2 and 1.
The final begins at 7 a.m. this morning. It is scheduled for 18 holes.
MIXED MARTIAL ARTS
VITALE-TRIGG IN OCTOBER
Hawai'i's Falaniko Vitale will take on New York's Frank Trigg in a feature bout of the Strikeforce organization's "Payback" mixed martial arts card on Oct. 3 at Denver.
The bout was announced yesterday by Strikeforce officials.
Vitale and Trigg are both former middleweight champions in the Hawai'i-based Icon Sport organization, but this will be the first time they fight each other.
Vitale, a Waipahu High graduate who now lives in 'Ewa, has a professional record of 26-8. Trigg is 16-6.
Phil Baroni of New York is also scheduled to fight on the card. Baroni has been fighting in Hawai'i recently, with a 1-1 record in the Icon Sport organization.
SUGANUMA TO FIGHT ON SHOWTIME BROADCAST
Po'ai Suganuma of Hilo will face Jared Hamman of California in the main event of the ShoXC: Elite Challenger Series today at Friant, Calif.
It is a rematch of a bout won in controversial fashion by Suganuma in April. Suganuma won by TKO in the first round, but Hamman claimed the bout was stopped early by the referee.
Suganuma is 9-1; Hamman is 10-1. The bout will be televised nationally on the Showtime cable network. It will be shown on a delayed basis in Hawai'i at 8 p.m.
