• Waimea’s Dizon leads Colorado in tackles • UH’s Owens up for Biletnikoff Award • Shoji-less Rainbow Wahine improve to 19-0 Waimea’s Dizon leads Colorado in tackles By The Garden Island Former Waimea High School standout Jordon Dizon is leading
• Waimea’s Dizon leads Colorado in tackles
• UH’s Owens up for Biletnikoff Award
• Shoji-less Rainbow Wahine improve to 19-0
Waimea’s Dizon leads Colorado in tackles
By The Garden Island
Former Waimea High School standout Jordon Dizon is leading Colorado University in tackles with 51, and is averaging over seven tackles a game. Dizon has 32 unassisted tackles and 19 assisted tackles on the season. Dizon needs just 17 tackles to break the Colorado freshman tackle record, with four games to go this season. Dizon also has his hands on two single-game highs this season for Colorado. He has the single-game high for total tackles (13), which came at the expense of Washington St. Dizon also has the most solo tackles with 9 against Washington St.
Dizon and the ‘Buffs stay home this weekend and play number seven ranked Texas, which will be televised on ABC at 9:30 a.m. (HST) on Saturday.
UH’s Owens up for Biletnikoff Award
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Hawai‘i’s Chad Owens, Oklahoma’s Mark Clayton and three players from the Big Ten topped a list of semifinalists announced Thursday for the Biletnikoff Award, symbolic of college football’s best receiver.
The Big Ten players are Michigan’s Braylon Edwards, Ohio State’s Santonio Holmes and Purdue’s Taylor Stubblefield,
The other candidates for the honor, named after Oakland Raider and Florida State great Fred Biletnikoff, include David Anderson, Colorado State; Derek Hagan, Arizona State; Chris Henry, West Virginia; Earvin Johnson, UNLV; Dante Ridgeway, Ball State and South Carolina’s Troy Williamson.
Ridgeway’s 63 catches for 831 yards are the best numbers among the candidates heading into this weekend’s games, while Stubblefield’s 11 touchdown catches leads in that category.
Three finalists will be named Nov. 15 and the winner will be announced in December at the annual ESPN awards show at Walt Disney World and feted at a February banquet in Tallahassee.
A panel of writers and broadcasters and a handful of former receivers, including Biletnikoff, make up the panel selected by the Tallahassee Quarterback Club Foundation, which sponsors the award.
Pittsburgh’s Larry Fitzgerald, now a rookie with the NFL’s Arizona Cardinals, won the 2003 award.
Shoji-less Rainbow Wahine improve to 19-0
SAN JOSE, Calif. — With Charlie Wade filling in for Dave Shoji as head coach, Hawaii women’s volleyball team defeated San Jose State in four games Wednesday to improve to 19-0.
Shoji missed his first match in 30 years to stay home with his ill father in Honolulu as the Rainbow Wahine, ranked No. 3 in the USA Today/CSTV Top 25 Coaches Poll, defeated the Spartans 33-31, 30-21, 26-30 and 30-20.
Alicia Arnott had 23 kills, 16 digs and five blocks for Hawaii (19-0, 9-0 Western Athletic Conference). Kanoe Kamanao had 64 assists, 12 digs and three blocks.
Hawaii combined for a season-high 19 blocks.
Carrie Nash and Sarah Christensen each had 12 kills to lead the Spartans (14-8, 5-4).
