{"id":186601,"date":"2023-11-06T16:29:03","date_gmt":"2023-11-07T02:29:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=186601"},"modified":"2023-11-06T16:32:55","modified_gmt":"2023-11-07T02:32:55","slug":"hilo-vulcans-sixth-in-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2023\/11\/06\/hilo-vulcans-sixth-in-west\/","title":{"rendered":"Vulcans ranked sixth in the west, seek third straight PacWest title"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/hilo-region-ranking-womens.jpeg\" alt=\"Wahine Vulcans region ranking announcement\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-186605\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/hilo-region-ranking-womens.jpeg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/hilo-region-ranking-womens-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/hilo-region-ranking-womens-130x73.jpeg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> at Hilo <a href=\"https:\/\/hiloathletics.com\/sports\/womens-soccer\">women\u2019s soccer<\/a> team placed No. 6 in the west region rankings announced on November 1.<\/p>\n<p>The Vulcans (10-2-2) have one regular season match remaining on their quest for three straight PacWest Conference titles and one of three automatic spots in the <abbr title=\"The National Collegiate Athletic Association\">NCAA<\/abbr> West Regional.<\/p>\n<p><abbr title=\"东精影业\">东精影业<\/abbr> Hilo\u2019s final regular season match is on November 12 against the Chaminade Silverswords at the Saint Louis School Field. The Vulcans are in second place with 19 points, just one point behind league leader Concordia University Irvine.<\/p>\n<p>The champions from the PacWest Conference, California Collegiate Athletic Association and Great Northwest Athletic Conference will automatically earn one of the six postseason bids up for grabs, leaving three at-large spots to be determined by the final <abbr>NCAA<\/abbr> Regional Rankings. One more iteration of the rankings will be released on November 8 before the announcement of teams at the <abbr>NCAA<\/abbr> Selection Show set for November 13.<\/p>\n<p>The <abbr>NCAA<\/abbr> West Regional will take place between November 16 and December 3, with the <abbr>NCAA<\/abbr> National Championship from December 7 to 9.<\/p>\n<p>For more visit <a href=\"https:\/\/hiloathletics.com\/news\/2023\/11\/1\/womens-soccer-vulcans-unveiled-at-no-6-in-ncaa-west-region-rankings.aspx\">HiloAthletics.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The champions from the PacWest Conference, California Collegiate Athletic Association and Great Northwest Athletic Conference will automatically earn one of the six postseason bids up for grabs. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1362],"tags":[58,1556,14,151],"class_list":["post-186601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-soccer","tag-uh-hilo","tag-hilo-athletics","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186601"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":186614,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186601\/revisions\/186614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}