  {"id":157471,"date":"2022-04-07T13:20:11","date_gmt":"2022-04-07T23:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=157471"},"modified":"2022-04-07T13:20:11","modified_gmt":"2022-04-07T23:20:11","slug":"domingo-soukal-pepsi-players","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2022\/04\/07\/domingo-soukal-pepsi-players\/","title":{"rendered":"Domingo, Soukal named Pepsi Athletes of the Week"},"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\/2022\/04\/hilo-athletics-pepsi-domingo-soukal.jpg\" alt=\"Chloe Domingo, Martin Soukal\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-157469\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/hilo-athletics-pepsi-domingo-soukal.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/hilo-athletics-pepsi-domingo-soukal-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/hilo-athletics-pepsi-domingo-soukal-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This week\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/hiloathletics.com\/index.aspx\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Âé¶¹´«Ã½<\/span> at Hilo<\/a> Pepsi Athletes of the Week are <strong>Chloe Domingo<\/strong> from the <a href=\"https:\/\/hiloathletics.com\/sports\/softball?path=softball\">softball team<\/a> and <strong>Martin Soukal<\/strong> from the <a href=\"https:\/\/hiloathletics.com\/sports\/mens-tennis?path=mten\">men\u2019s tennis team<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Vulcan softball team is back home from a 15-game road trip. Last weekend the Vulcans wrapped up their trip with an annual appearance at the Tournament of Champions hosted by California State University, Stanislaus in Turlock, Calif.<\/p>\n<p>Domingo went 7-17 in the five-game tournament with two extra-base hits, scoring three times and driving in five RBIs. Three of Domingo\u2019s five <abbr title=\"run batted in\">RBIs<\/abbr> were scored in <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> Hilo\u2019s 7-5 win over California State University, San Bernardino. Domingo had the game-tying double (5-5) in the fifth and chipped in the final insurance run in the sixth (7-5).<\/p>\n<p>The <abbr>UH<\/abbr> Hilo men\u2019s tennis team captured a crucial win against No. 4 <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Âé¶¹´«Ã½<\/span> Pacific University (<abbr>HPU<\/abbr>) on April 2. Soukal, the No. 3 ranked player in the nation, set the tone for the Vulcans by winning the first singles match after <abbr>UH<\/abbr> Hilo dropped the doubles point.<\/p>\n<p>Soukal topped <abbr>HPU<\/abbr>\u2019s Jan Pleva 6-1, 6-3 in 49 minutes which tied the match up 1-1 for <abbr>UH<\/abbr> Hilo. Soukal improved to 12-2 from the first court on his senior day.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hiloathletics.com\/news\/2022\/4\/5\/general-pepsi-athletes-of-the-week-domingo-and-soukal.aspx\">For more information, see <abbr>UH<\/abbr> Hilo\u2019s website.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week\u2019s <abbr>UH<\/abbr> Hilo Pepsi Athletes of the Week are softball player Chloe Domingo and tennis player Martin Soukal.<\/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":[58,660,14,151],"class_list":["post-157471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-student-recognition","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\/157471","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=157471"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":157476,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157471\/revisions\/157476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}