Samoan Girl Named to US Women's Junior National Team
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SECTION B VISIT SAMOA NEWS ONLINE @ SAMOANEWS.COM MONDAY, JULY 17, 2017 CLASSIFIEDS • CARTOONS • ALOHA BRIEFS & MORE ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ Samoan girl named to US Women’s C M Y K Junior National Team by Blue Chen-Fruean four varsity letters in the sport, winner of the 2016 Andi Col- Papua New Guinea. Tula and Olosega, Manu’a who Samoa News Correspondent and helped lead the Sea Hawks lins Award, which is presented Iosia has two sisters and reside in Patterson, CA First it was Hector Petri to four league titles and a pair to the best senior setter in the three brothers, and is the Iosia, who has played for the with his javelin and then it was of state championships in 2014 nation. Most notably, daughter of Moe and Marlene Mizuno Long Beach club vol- Kau’ilani Misipeka with the shot and 2015. Those same years, Iosia was part of the Amer- Iosia of Torrance, CA, and leyball team for 11 years, plans put and discus. Now another she was named the Daily ican Samoa National Vol- granddaughter of the late Taufi to pursue a degree in family Samoan athlete is making head- Breeze’s Player of the Year and leyball Team that came home Moeaveave Iosia of Aunu’u and resources. lines. This time, in the world of earned all-state DI Player of the with the gold medal during the Saitaua Peapea Iosia of Leone; Malo lava Noreen! Alo i ou volleyball. Norene Iosia, a setter Year honors. She was also the 2015 Pacific Games held in and Maua and Ailini Teofilo of faiva! for the University of Hawaii’s women’s Rainbow Wahine volleyball team, was last week named to the U.S. Women’s Junior National Team (WJNT), a 12-player squad competing at the 2017 FIVB Volleyball Women’s U20 World Champi- onship in Boca del Rio and Cor- doba, Mexico - July 14-23. (The US qualified for the World Championship after win- ning gold at the 2017 Women’s U20 Pan American Cup in San Jose, Costa Rica). Iosia is a freshman at UH and she was one of two setters that was selected to the squad, out of a 16-player group that trained July 2-11 at the US Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, CO. The five-foot- eleven graduate of Redondo Union High School from Tor- rance, CA finished off her first season at UH with 971 total assists while averaging 10.33 assists per set, and finished the season second on the team with 31 service aces. According to hawaiiathletics.com, Iosia led UH with 13 double-doubles for the year, earned three Big West Freshman of the Week awards, and was named to both the All- Big West First Team and to the C M All-Freshman Team, while also Y K earning UH Manoa Scholar Ath- lete Honors in the classroom. Samoa News understands that Iosia is the only Samoan on the team representing the U.S. in the 2017 FIVB Volleyball Wom- en’s U20 World Championship. Samoans in Colorado and Cali- fornia have shared Iosia’s story with Samoa News, saying she is one of those naturally gifted athletes that is on her way to big things. “She is an Olympic athlete in the making,” said one Samoa News reader. “One of the best Samoan volleyball players — man or woman — that I have seen,” said another. Collectively, they all agree that if she remains injury-free, there is no telling how far Iosia can go. In high school, Iosia always thrived in volleyball. and earned Page B2 samoa news, Monday, July 17, 2017 Bauer gets just 2 outs; A’s top Indians 7-3 for 3-game sweep OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) shortest start of his big league — Cleveland Indians manager career as the Oakland Athletics Terry Francona expected more beat Cleveland 7-3 on Sunday to out of his ballclub coming out complete the surprising sweep. of the All-Star break — a lot “It’s discouraging for a more. number of reasons,” Francona What Francona saw instead said. “You’re trying to salvage was a frustrating three games a game out of the series and in Oakland that ended with the you’re down four before you Indians being swept for only can even look up. That’s a hard the third time this season while way to play, and then you go seeing their lead in the AL Cen- through your whole bullpen. tral trimmed to 1 ½ games over That wasn’t our goal for today.” A group shot of the beautiful women from the Tina Drabble Jr. Golf Foundation – who Minnesota. Bauer (7-8) allowed four were working hard, catering to the tournament competitors last Saturday morning at the Iliili Golf Cleveland starter Trevor runs, three hits and two walks Course. Bauer got just two outs in a four- while throwing just 24 of 43 [Photo: TG] run first inning and matched the pitches for strikes in facing seven batters. Cleveland has lost four straight for the first time since 2015. “I had no feel for anything I was throwing, no feel for how my body was moving, where the ball was going,” Bauer said. “When things started going south I couldn’t figure out how to get out of it.” Ryon Healy and Jaycob Brugman hit two-run singles in the first. Jed Lowrie homered against Dan Otero for a 5-0 lead in the third, and Matt Joyce had three hits and two RBIs. Sean Manaea (8-5) struck out eight in seven innings, allowing two runs and five hits. Before the game, veteran-shed- ding Oakland dealt relievers Ryan Madson and Sean Doo- little to Washington for right- hander Blake Treinen and a pair of prospects, left-hander Jesus Luzardo and infielder Sheldon Neuse. “Maybe the break was good for everyone,” Manaea said. “A well-needed rest. Hearing the (trade) news put a fire under everybody.” Francisco Lindor matched his career high with four hits, including three doubles. Michael Brantley hit a two- run single in the fourth, and Abraham Almonte homered with two outs in the ninth against Simon Castro. Cleveland had leadoff dou- bles in the sixth, seventh and eighth but failed to score. STREAK ENDS The Indians last lost four in a row July 23-28, 2015 when they lost six straight. Cleve- land had gone 312 games since then without a four-game losing streak — the third-longest stretch in major league history behind the 1931-33 New York Yankees (346) and the 1917-19 Indians (316). TRAINER’S ROOM Athletics: RHP Jharel Cotton will join teammate RHP Kendall Graveman on Wednesday at Triple-A Nash- (Continued on page 3) samoa news, Monday, July 17, 2017 Page B3 Choo loses fly in sun EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY FINANCE MANAGER with 2 out in 9th, KC American Samoa Overview We are a multi-national group involved in manufacturing, sourcing and distributing consumer goods across the Pacific shades Texas 4-3 Region. We distribute our own products as well as 3rd party branded products in American Samoa. KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) first allowed Merrifield to score. As we expand our global footprint we require a new finance role based in Pago Pago to support the CFO and local — On a bright afternoon in Mike Moustakas’ two-out business unit head. The role will encompass financial control, business analysis, forecasting, as well as day to day Kansas City, the Royals shaded double in the third scored Eric financial operations. 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