SPU will name Hironaka men's basketball coach

Longtime assistant Jeff Hironaka is the only person under consideration for the vacant men's basketball coaching job at Seattle Pacific, and an announcement is expected today, according to the university's sports information office.

Hironaka, 44, would replace Ken Bone, who resigned April 16 to become an assistant coach at Washington under newly hired Lorenzo Romar.

If hired, it is believed that Hironaka would be only the second Asian-American men's basketball coach at a four-year school. Dave Yanai is the coach at Cal State L.A.

Hironaka has been an assistant under Bone for 11 years at Division II SPU and was given the title associate head coach in 1996. He also was a high-school coach in Idaho at Ririe and Blackfoot. The native of Weiser, Idaho, played college basketball at Eastern Oregon.

Notes

• Walt Williams, Washington State men's golf coach, was selected Pac-10 Coach of the Year. The Cougars finished in the top five in 11 of 13 tournaments. Washington sophomore Brock Mackenzie of Eisenhower High in Yakima and WSU junior Dustin White were picked to the first team. WSU senior Jon Reehoorn of Burlington Edison and UW junior John Robertson of Tumwater were selected to the second team. UW junior Conner Robbins of Central Kitsap was given honorable mention.

• The 16th-ranked Washington women's golf team is seeded fifth in the 21-team field at the NCAA West Regional championship May 9-11 at the Stanford Golf Course. Washington State earned its second berth in three years.

• Seattle University's Jennifer Hewitt was selected the Great Northwest Athletic Conference Pitcher of the Week after throwing the first no-hitter in school history and recording all three of Seattle's victories last week.

• Western Washington's women's golf team did not receive a berth to the NCAA Division II North Regional despite being ranked No. 1 in the region and No. 6 nationally.