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Three players with Utah ties have signed to play basketball for the BYU-Hawaii Seasiders next season. Coach Ken Wagner recently announced that Brady Hurst, Pablo Quitral and Zach Ngawaka have signed with BYU-H. Hurst, a 6-foot-8 forward, prepped at Davis High and averaged 12.8 points and 7.3 rebounds per game last year for the College of Eastern Utah. He served a church mission in Chicago prior to playing for CEU. Quitral gradauted from Juan Diego Catholic High School in Draper and was the first native of Chile to sign a Division I letter of intent. He signed with Weber State, but redshirted in 2009-10 and sat out most of last season with an injury. Ngawaka, a 6-5 wing from Australia, began his collegiate career at Snow College before a church mission to Riverside, Calif. He played at Mt. SAC junior college last season, averaging 7.8 points and 4.6 rebounds per game before a season-ending injury. BYU-H played in the NCAA Division II national championship game last season.