{"id":168242,"date":"2022-10-28T11:21:43","date_gmt":"2022-10-28T21:21:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=168242"},"modified":"2022-10-28T11:21:43","modified_gmt":"2022-10-28T21:21:43","slug":"hilo-womens-soccer-share-of-pacwest-crown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2022\/10\/28\/hilo-womens-soccer-share-of-pacwest-crown\/","title":{"rendered":"UH<\/abbr> Hilo women’s soccer claims share of PacWest<\/abbr> crown, outright championship on the line"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>

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For the second consecutive year, the University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at Hilo women’s soccer<\/a> team will lay claim as Pacific West Conference champion. The Vulcans defeated Concordia University Irvine (CUI<\/abbr>), 3-1, on October 27 in the penultimate game of PacWest<\/abbr> play to clinch at least a share of the conference title.<\/p>\n

Reigning PacWest<\/abbr> Player of the Week Teani Arakawa<\/strong> continued her hot scoring streak with a seventh-minute goal for her sixth score in the last four matches. Filippa Graneld<\/strong> placed a through-ball from midfield as she raced past three CUI<\/abbr> defenders and got the shot to go past the keeper for her eighth goal of the season.<\/p>\n

Just over 10 minutes later, Graneld got in on the scoring action on a shot from the right side of the penalty area to extend the lead in the 19th minute.<\/p>\n

Not to be outdone, Grace VerHage<\/strong> capped the Vulcans’ scoring by bending a direct corner kick into the top corner of the goal in the 31st minute as she moved back into a tie with Arakawa for most goals scored on the season.<\/p>\n

Viviana Poli<\/strong> made her first start in goal this season and played the full 90 minutes with six saves made.<\/p>\n

With this game, UH<\/abbr> Hilo improved to 12-0-3 overall and 7-0-2 PacWest<\/abbr> play.<\/p>\n

UH<\/abbr> Hilo stands atop the PacWest<\/abbr> standings as it heads to the regular-season finale on October 29 against Azusa Pacific University. The Vulcans also currently hold the No. 3 spot in the latest NCAA<\/abbr> Division II<\/abbr> West Region Rankings<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Both Azusa Pacific University and Point Loma Nazarene University have three matches remaining and are the only two teams who could potentially finish tied with the Vulcans at the No. 1 spot. In that scenario, each team would get a share of the PacWest<\/abbr> Championship as co-champions, with tiebreaker rules to determine who gets the automatic qualifier for the NCAA<\/abbr> Division II<\/abbr> Women’s Soccer Championships West Region.<\/p>\n

A win or tie for the Vulcans in the upcoming October 29 match against Azusa Pacific University would seal the claim for outright conference champion.<\/p>\n

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

A win or tie in the Vulcans\u2019 regular-season finale on October 29 would seal the claim for outright conference champion.<\/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":[58,911,1556,714,14,151],"class_list":["post-168242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-program-recognition","tag-soccer","tag-student-athlete","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\/168242","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=168242"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":168258,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168242\/revisions\/168258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}