{"id":158670,"date":"2022-05-06T09:36:59","date_gmt":"2022-05-06T19:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=158670"},"modified":"2022-05-06T10:39:13","modified_gmt":"2022-05-06T20:39:13","slug":"vulcans-softball-all-pacwest-recognition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2022\/05\/06\/vulcans-softball-all-pacwest-recognition\/","title":{"rendered":"Vulcans softball receives All-PacWest recognition"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>

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The University of Hawaiʻi<\/span> at Hilo softball team<\/a> received two PacWest Player of the Year honors and three All-PacWest selections for the 2021–22 season.<\/p>\n

Jayda Favela<\/strong> led the squad as the PacWest’s Freshman of the Year and a First Team All-PacWest selection. Favela started every game at shortstop for the Vulcans. She ended the season with a .983 fielding percentage, making only three errors out of 178 chances. She was also a part of 12 doubles plays (fifth-most in the conference) and had 117 assists (second-most in the conference). She also had the second-most stolen bases in the PacWest with 20.<\/p>\n

Senior Skylar Thomas<\/strong> received a special award as PacWest Defender of the Year. Thomas had the third-highest fielding percentage (.997) and third-most putouts (298) in the PacWest. She had one error the entire season out of 313 chances. She was also a part of nine double plays as the Vulcans first base starter.<\/p>\n

Brandee Chinen<\/strong> received her first All-PacWest recognition as a Second Team selection. Chinen has the fifth-best batting average in the PacWest, leading her team with a .370 batting average, .859 OPS<\/abbr>, .467 slugging percentage, and a .392 on-base percentage.<\/p>\n

Angel Prewitt<\/strong> was named Third Team All-PacWest, starting every game for the Vulcans at center field. She batted .327 with 33 hits and five doubles. She also had a season high of three hits against Academy of Art University\u2014two of those hits were doubles.<\/p>\n

For more go hiloathletics.com.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jayda Favela was awarded Freshman of the Year, Skylar Thomas named PacWest Defender of the Year and Brandee Chinen and Angel Prewitt named to second and third teams, respectively.<\/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":[58,1527,660,14,151],"class_list":["post-158670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-softball","tag-student-recognition","tag-uh-hilo","tag-hilo-athletics","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t