{"id":191006,"date":"2024-01-30T12:58:10","date_gmt":"2024-01-30T22:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=191006"},"modified":"2024-01-30T12:58:10","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T22:58:10","slug":"vulcans-softball-baseball-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2024\/01\/30\/vulcans-softball-baseball-poll\/","title":{"rendered":"Vulcans softball, baseball preseason poll announced"},"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\/2024\/01\/hilo-softball-baseball-main-1.jpg\" alt=\"Softball and baseball \" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-191008\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/hilo-softball-baseball-main-1.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/hilo-softball-baseball-main-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/hilo-softball-baseball-main-1-130x73.jpg 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\/softball\">women\u2019s softball<\/a> team placed No. 6, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/hiloathletics.com\/sports\/baseball\">men\u2019s baseball<\/a> team placed No. 7 in the PacWest Preseason Coaches Poll.<\/p>\n<p>The Vulcan softball team is led by slick-fielding shortstop Jayda Favela, who hit .346 and had 20 stolen bases last season as a sophomore. The Vulcans head coach Aisha Sueda has five starters returning along with transfers Kiani Nakamura and Megan Yorba.<\/p>\n<p>The Vulcan baseball team secures the No. 7 spot, beating out rival <abbr title=\"Hawaii Pacific University\">HPU<\/abbr> by just one voting point. Alec Yamauchi is selected as the Third Team pick, however, the team faces the challenge of finding a replacement for five-year star Casey Yamauchi. The team is led by head coach Kallen Miyataki and boasted a 25-19 record in the previous season.<\/p>\n<p>For more visit <a href=\"https:\/\/hiloathletics.com\/news\/2024\/1\/26\/softball-voted-no-6-in-preseason-coaches-poll.aspx\">women\u2019s softball<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/hiloathletics.com\/news\/2024\/1\/27\/baseball-picked-to-finish-no-7-in-preseason-coaches-poll.aspx\">men\u2019s baseball<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The softball team returns with five starters and outfielder Alec Yamauchi makes Third Team pick. <\/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":[58,1491,1527,14,151],"class_list":["post-191006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-baseball","tag-softball","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\/191006","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=191006"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":191014,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191006\/revisions\/191014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}