{"id":159202,"date":"2022-05-16T16:05:01","date_gmt":"2022-05-17T02:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=159202"},"modified":"2022-05-16T16:05:01","modified_gmt":"2022-05-17T02:05:01","slug":"vulcans-all-pacwest-baseball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2022\/05\/16\/vulcans-all-pacwest-baseball\/","title":{"rendered":"2 Vulcans snag All-PacWest baseball honors"},"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\/05\/joey_gallagher_baseball.jpg\" alt=\"Joey Gallagher\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-159201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/joey_gallagher_baseball.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/joey_gallagher_baseball-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/joey_gallagher_baseball-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Two of the <a href=\"https:\/\/hiloathletics.com\/sports\/baseball?path=baseball\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at Hilo baseball team<\/a>\u2019s top players earned All-PacWest team honors.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/casey_Yamauchi_baseball-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Casey Yamauchi\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-159200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/casey_Yamauchi_baseball-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/casey_Yamauchi_baseball-130x73.jpg 130w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/casey_Yamauchi_baseball.jpg 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Joseph Gallagher<\/strong> was voted to the first team as designated hitter and shortstop <strong>Casey Yamauchi<\/strong> was voted to the third team.<\/p>\n<p>Gallagher batted cleanup for the Vulcans with a .348 batting average, 57 hits, 13 doubles, one triple, six home runs and 39 RBIs.<\/p>\n<p>Yamauchi was <abbr>UH<\/abbr>  starting shortstop and lead off batter. He had the highest batting average in the PacWest (.403) and the fewest strikeouts (7). He racked up 75 hits, a PacWest leading 21 doubles, and one triple. The Big Island native was busy on defense, being part of 21 double plays and ending the season with a .941 fielding percentage.<\/p>\n<p>The Vulcans finished 27-19 overall and 15-17 in the Pacific West Conference, leaving them at sixth place in league standings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The suberb play by two of <abbr>UH<\/abbr> Hilo&#8217;s top Vulcan baseball players earn all-conference honors.<\/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":[58,1491,14,151],"class_list":["post-159202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-baseball","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\/159202","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=159202"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":159240,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159202\/revisions\/159240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}