Orange County Roundup

Six members of the Japan Karate Federation in Costa Mesa--including three from one Costa Mesa family--earned gold medals in the juniors division of the 1985 AAU Junior National championships in New Orleans last week.

Kaiana Oliver and his sisters, Kekai and Kahelena, each won their respective divisions in kata, style and form. Kaiana won the boys’ 11-year-old division, Kekai the girls’ 13s, and Kahelena the girls’ 6s. Kekai also finished third in kumite, which is standard sparring.

Another Oliver sister, Lahaina, won a bronze medal in kata in the girls’ 10s.

Other gold medalists were Nanette Taylor in the kata and weapons kata events of the girls’ 14s, and Colin Morris in the boys’ 10s kata.

Team members Erin Long, Kristie Koch, and David White also won medals. Long won a silver in girls’ 12s kata, Koch took a bronze in girls’ 14s weapons kata, and White earned a bronze in kata in the boys’ 9-year-olds.

In the adult division, the instructor of the Japan Karate Federation, Jackie Long, won gold medals in all three events--the kumite, kata and weapons kata.

Speedway motorcyclist Sam Ermolenko, who finished third in the world championship last Saturday, returns to the Orange County Fairgrounds tonight for the weekly races.

Ermolenko, 25, from Cypress, tied with Danes Erik Gundersen and Hans Nielsen at the conclusion of the 20-heat program in Bradford, England, but lost the title in a runoff and finished third.