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UPDATE Baseball braces for Friday the 1 3th D-2 3 D-2 'Round and 'round he goes El Hershiser isn't a perfect pitcher Jordan has hot tip for teammate D-3 Section Friday, May 13, 1988 Star-Bulletin son contest for the Cougars. That loss probably knocked BYU out of title contention. If Colorado State sweeps four games from Wyoming this weekend, an unlikely event, then CSU will make up a two-game series with BYU that was snowed out. But CSU won't play BYU unless it sweeps Wyoming, which would give CSU a shot at a WAC playoff berth. So, the WAC race will probably boil down to this: The Rainbows needs two victories and the Aztecs need three victories to win the title and gain the No.l seed in the conference playoffs next week.

The showdown begins tonight at 7 at Rainbow Stadium. The game is a sellout. Standing room only tickets will go on sale at 6:30 p.m. for $3. The Aztecs will start right-hander Rob Brown (8-3, 2.47) while the Rain The regular-season WAC title is at stake in their four-game series By Al Chase Star-Bulletin "If there is any year we'll get beat, this is the year," said Hawaii Coach Les Murakami.

"We're a much better team than we were last year," said San Diego State Coach Jim Dietz. The Western Athletic Conference regular-season championship apppears to be up for grabs this weekend in the four-game series that features the Rainbows and Aztecs, two of the top teams in the league. The other upper-echleon team, Brieham Young, was upset yesterday by Utah, 18-17, in the final regular-sea bows will go with left-hander Danny Kapea (8-3, 3.19). San Diego State has been on a roll the past six weeks, winning 20 of its last 22 games. Dietz says the conference-opening series against BYU was the point at which his team started to put everything together.

"This was one of those teams that wasn't supposed to do too much because we lost a lot of quality people (last year, including five pitchers) at one time," Dietz said. "We recruited five quality freshmen but didn't play that well early in the season. We knew we had good young players but we didn't know what to expect. We had to scramble to rebuild the pitching staff. "In the BYU series, I cost us one of the games with some moves I made, and we kicked the other one away.

However, I think the players realized See SHOWDOWN, Page D-5 It's an SR0 affair The Hawaii Rainbows already have their 14th sellout of the season. officials announced yesterday that tonight's game at Rainbow Stadium between the 'Bows and San Diego State Aztecs was sold out. Standing room only tickets will go on sale at the Rainbow Stadium Box Ofice at 6:30 p.m. The cost is $3. Tickets are still available for the doubleheader tomorrow and Sunday's single game at Aloha Stadium.

Tomorrow, the Aloha Stadium parking lot will open at 3 p.m. and the gates will open at 4 p.m. for the 5 p.m. twinbill. On Sunday, the parking lot opens at 2.

i SPORTS WATCH By Bill Ktvon 1 1 if 7 tf i v' VlY X7 Associated Press Dodgers third baseman Pedro Guerrero watches Barry Bonds of the Pirates circle the bases after belting his second home run last night in a 7-4 Pittsburgh victory. Baseball on Page D-2. Kentucky's Chapman to join NBA LEXINGTON, Ky. University of Kentucky standout Rex Chapman announced today that he would forego his final two years of college and make himself eligible for this spring's National Basketball Association draft. "It was a very difficult decision," Chapman said in a telephone interview from his home in Owens-boro, Ky.

"My heart was telling me one thing, my head another. "It's strictly a business decision." The NBA's deadline for underclassmen declaring for the June 23 draft is midnight Saturday. Chapman must mail a letter to league commissioner David Stern that is postmarked by that time. He said his change of heart had nothing to do with the ongoing in-house and NCAA investigations of the Kentucky basketball program. Jordan top defensive player NEW YORK Michael Jordan, the Chicago Bulls guard who led the NBA in steals as well as scoring, today was named the 1988 NBA Defensive Player of the Year.

Jordan received 37 of 80 votes from a nationwide panel of media members, three from each league city and 11 representatives of the national media. Center Mark Eaton of Utah was second with nine votes, followed by center Akeem Olajuwon of Houston with seven. Jordan, who averaged 35 points per game to top the league in scoring for the second straight year, had 259 steals for a 3.16 average to become the first player to lead the league in both categories. Jordan blocked 131 shots, the most by any guard in the NBA. "I've been taught defense.

I like to play defense," he said. Lendl wins; Noah, Agassi, Gomez fail ROME Fifth-seeded Kent Carlsson of Sweden surprised Yannick Noah, 4-6, 6-1, 6-4, in a two-hour battle, and Haiti's Ronald Agenor upset American sensation Andre Agassi, 6-3, 6-1, in just 53 minutes to reach the semifinals of the Italian Open tennis championships. Top-seeded Ivan Lendl struggled again, but won a prolonged quarterfinal match over unseeded Jaime Yzaga of Peru, 6-2, 4-6, 6-2. Also gaining the semifinals was 14th-seeded Guillermo Perez-Rol-dan of Argentina, who upset No. 6 Andres Gomez of Ecuador, 6-2, 6-3.

From Star-Bulletin news services v1 SJf it Kazvm awes 1 fjf fww 3E, wsr nflE is still Mike Chun to those who know him. I'm glad. I knew him as Mike Chun when he was a star end on the 1960 Kamehameha Warriors' championship football team. Now at age 45 he is the president of the richest private school in the nation. "It's always been Mike, not Michael," said Chun, who will take over June 15 as the 10th president and first Hawaiian president in the 100-year history of the Kamehameha Schools, founded by Princess Bernice Pauahi Bishop.

"I'm honored but I feel uncomfortable ith Mr. Chun or Michael." Even when he was the city's public works chief under former Mayor Eileen Anderson, Chun liked to stay in the background. "With the city, I was the stage hand. Eileen was center stage." Still, Chun Mike or Michael has come a long way from the time he was No. 45 playing end on offense and defense for Calvin Chai's Warriors.

"It was Sam Harris' number," Chun answered when asked the other day what his old high school jersey number was. "He was one of the best ends I've ever had, with Sam and Rocky (Frei-tas)," Chai said about Chun. The three former Warrior ends have remained best of friends even though Chun was two classes ahead of them. Chun's wife, the former Bina Mossman, was a classmate of Freitas and Harris. Frei-tas is now associate athletic director at the University of Hawaii and Harris lives in Santa Barbara, Calif.

Bina, an executive with Kaiser Development wound up graduating from Lawrence (Kan.) High School, moving there when Chun went to the University of Kansas. Chun lettered three years for the Jayhawks, although a shoulder injury requiring major surgery limited his playing time. "My claim to fame is that I was Gale Sayers' teammate," Chun said about his Kansas experience. He played with Sayers for three years. "Til this day I've never seen anybody work harder than he did.

He certainly as not a prima donna. I was always impressed with him. He was one hell of a hard worker." That gives you a clue about Chun's work ethic. After graduating from Kansas, Chun came back to get his master's degree in political science at the University of Hawaii. He was on the UH faculty from 1970-81 and then Mike Chun: Kamehameha president Stressful, yes, but very well handled.

I'm overwhelmed by the support I've received from friends and colleagues." Chun bleeds Kamehameha blue. He attended the school from kindergarten through the 12th grade. He and his wife are parents of a Kamehameha graduate, former swimming star Kaili Chun, who later got her degree from Princeton. "I've been a student, an alumnus, a parent and have been on the board of advisors to the president," said Chun. "I never really left Kamehameha in the sense that I lost touch." And Chun has attended all of the school's different campuses.

The kindergarteners, and first and second graders during his time attended classes at the McNeil campus makai of Kalakaua Intermediate School in Kali-hi. From grades three to six, the class rooms were by the Bishop Museum. As a seventh-grader he moved to the new ly built prep school up on Kapala-ma Heights. During his days as a ninth grader, the girls went to girls' school and the boys to boys' school. Kamehameha is now co-educational.

Chun's fondest memories came in football, especially during his senior year hen the Warriors won the Inter scholastic League of Honolulu championship. He was also named a national high school All-American. In those days, football was football. Guys had to play both ways. No specialty stuff.

Kala Kukea, before he got hurt, and Ken Stern were the quarterbacks. Sargent Napuunoa, Rodney Morris and Charley Arnold rounded out the backfield. Up front, Chun and Sam Hookano were the ends: Tony Ah Yat, the center; Bernard Shigaki and Leroy Kua-moo, the guards, and Agenhart Ellis and Jan Dill, the tackles. See CHUN, Page D-3 HAWAII BEAT 'V- file photo- Mike Chun was a high school Ail-American for Kamehameha's Warriors in 1960. Ishii advances to semifinals TOKYO David Ishii of Honolulu advanced to the semifinals of the Japan PGA Matchplay Golf Championship today with a pair of victories at the Green Academy Country Club in Fukushima.

Ishii, the JPGA's leading money-winner last season, defeated Toru Nakamura, 3 and 1, in the second round and Koichi Suzuki, 7 and 6, in the quarterfinals of the $400,000 event. He will face Namio Takasu in tomorrow's 36-hole semifinals while Noboru Sugai meets Yoshitaka Yamamoto. Four-time champion Isao Aoki was defeated by Naomichi Ozaki in the second round of the tournament, which carries a winner's purse of $112,000. Atisanoe improves record to 3-3 TOKYO Salevaa Atisanoe of Hawaii, known in Japan as Konishiki, easily shoved Hananoumi out of the ring today to even his record at 3-3 in the 15-iay Grand Sumo Tournament at the Ryogoku Kokugikan arena. one applies for nor is one asked to submit letters of recommendation.

The five Bishop Estate trustees ask you and ask others about you. "Many people were surprised, but probably because the whole thing was confidential," Chun said. "The whole procedure was a positive experience. joined the Anderson cabinet for the next four years. He was vice president with Fark Engineering until he was tapped for the Kamehameha presidency.

It wasn't until February that Chun learned he was being considered for the position. It's not the kind of job ft fl I nan soccer teems in cup match Top uloiity of sumo Hawaii Pacific College and Chaminade University will play for the Gentleman's Cup tomorrow in the Hawaii College Soccer League's spring season-ending Goodwill Match. The kickoff is scheduled for 10 a.m. at Waialae Iki Field. Spring season awards will be presented after the match.

Rejwrtcd by Star-Bulletin staff ON THE AIR Today's TV highlights 1:30 p.m. ESPN NHL Playoffs 2.C5 pm. VVTBS NBA Playoffs Joanne Ninomiya's subtitles help local viewers understand a foreign sport By Paul Ccrvc'fio Sta Buiiet-n "I don't like sports." said Joanne Ninomiya, as she sat, surrounded by pictures of some of the world's biggest athletes, in her Paa Street office yesterday. "I don't care for basketball, football or baseball. But I really love sumo." Joanne Ninomiya isn't alone.

Two months ao, KHNL (Channel 13 held a contest for sumo fans predict the winner of the March tournament 3nd his record. In less than 10 days, entries were sent in. "Even the mailman must have been a fan." said Ninomiya, "because on the last he sorted the entries for us." "Sumo is amazing, said KHNL Fro-rrarn Director Dan Schmidt, whose station shows a half hour highlight film each night at 10 05 during the six 15-dy tournaments a year. "We don't look at our sumo audience as a sports audience. It's a different group," said Schmidt.

"And they're not all Japanese anymore, either. Sumo has managed to cross ethnic boundaries. We can tell it's doing that because of the number of requests we receive to put more subtitling on the program. "People want to know everything the announcers are saying now. At this point, however, that's a bridge too far for us." For the past two years, Ninomiya's company, JN Productions, has been making the ancient Japanese sport more understandable to local viewers by providing subtitles for the highlight show.

Before that, sumo highlights had been shown here for more than a decade ith no subtitles. At first, the subtitles offered only sparse information: the names of the winners and losers, and the technique used to win the match. Since then, however, the viewers have asked for more. Gradually, they are getting it. Wrestlers' weights, records and rankings were added.

And in March. JN Productions started to See SUMO CM TV, Pcce D-4 4 30 pm. WTBS NBA Playoffs Today's radio highlights 4:35 p.m. KGU Baseball: Mets-Giants 6 50 p.m. KHVH Baseball: Hawaii-San Diego St.

Tomorrow's radio highlights I .1 10.05 a m. KGU Baseball: Mets-Giants 1:50 p.m. KGJ Baseball: Braves-Cardinals 4.C5p.m. KDEO Baseball: Weekend sports viewing guide on Page D-4 Joanna Ninomiya works w.t.1 BcS FunAcwa (left) end Grcnt Murota cs tKcy ci. a tape of Sc'ovaa Atisanoe's sumo match yesterday for a TV screo.ng lest gf.

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