{"id":168456,"date":"2022-11-01T16:11:06","date_gmt":"2022-11-02T02:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=168456"},"modified":"2022-11-01T16:21:53","modified_gmt":"2022-11-02T02:21:53","slug":"hilo-womens-soccer-repeats-pacwest-champ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2022\/11\/01\/hilo-womens-soccer-repeats-pacwest-champ\/","title":{"rendered":"UH<\/abbr> Hilo women\u2019s soccer repeats as PacWest<\/abbr> champ"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>

\"U<\/p>\n

The University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at Hilo women’s soccer<\/a> team claimed the 2022 Pacific West Conference Championship following a 3-1 win against Azusa Pacific University on October 29.<\/p>\n

\"Grace<\/p>\n

Grace VerHage<\/strong> netted all three scores in the first half for the second hat-trick (three goals in one match) of her career and just the sixth in program history—the last one was 10 years ago by Adele Letro<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Following the match, VerHage was named PacWest<\/abbr> Player of the Week<\/a> for October 24–30. Not only is VerHage the only player in the conference this year to notch a hat trick, she also tops the PacWest<\/abbr> with 11 goals on the season and 25 points.<\/p>\n

UH<\/abbr> Hilo repeats as back-to-back conference champions, but this time alone at the top, as last year they tied as co-champions<\/a> with Point Loma Nazarene University.<\/p>\n

The team improved to 13-0-3 overall and 8-0-2 PacWest<\/abbr> play.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s next<\/h2>\n

The Vulcans will find out their placement in the NCAA<\/abbr> Women’s Soccer Championships West Regional bracket on November 7; the NCAA Selection Show will be broadcast online on ncaa.com<\/a> starting at 4:30 p.m. HST<\/abbr>.<\/p>\n

The six-team regional will feature the champions from the PacWest<\/abbr>, Great Northwest Athletic Conference and California Collegiate Athletic Association, along with three at-large bids.<\/p>\n

The Vulcans currently sit at No. 3 in the latest NCAA Division II<\/abbr> West Region Rankings. The top two teams will earn hosting rights to the first and second rounds of the NCAA postseason.<\/p>\n

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

Grace VerHage netted three scores in the championship game and earned PacWest<\/abbr> Player of the Week recognition. <\/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":[58,1556,660,714,14,151],"class_list":["post-168456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-soccer","tag-student-recognition","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\/168456","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=168456"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":168470,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168456\/revisions\/168470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}