{"id":172778,"date":"2023-02-14T14:06:36","date_gmt":"2023-02-15T00:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=172778"},"modified":"2023-02-14T14:06:36","modified_gmt":"2023-02-15T00:06:36","slug":"favela-yamauchi-kta-superstars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2023\/02\/14\/favela-yamauchi-kta-superstars\/","title":{"rendered":"Favela, Yamauchi named KTA<\/abbr> Superstars of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>

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University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at Hilo softball<\/a> player Trinity Favela<\/strong> and baseball<\/a> player Casey Yamauchi<\/strong> were named KTA<\/abbr> Super Stores Superstars of the Week, January 25–February 7.<\/p>\n

Favela batted .400 (6-for-15) with three RBI<\/abbr>, a double, a triple and three runs scored over the Vulcans\u2019 first five games as they opened the season at the Concordia Kickoff Classic. She collected 14 putouts, 12 assists and one double play.<\/p>\n

Yamauchi had a strong start to his final season, helping the Vulcans take down Augustana College, four games to one. The Hilo-native batted 7-for-12 (.412) and launched his first career home run on opening night. The shortstop also collected 11 putouts and 18 assists (.967) with three double plays.<\/p>\n

The KTA<\/abbr> Superstars award<\/a> names one male and one female Vulcans student-athlete each week, highlighting their accomplishments from the prior week.<\/p>\n

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

UH<\/abbr> Hilo softball player Trinity Favela and baseball player Casey Yamauchi were named KTA<\/abbr> Super Stores Superstars of the Week, January 25–February 7.<\/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":[58,1491,1527,660,714,14,151],"class_list":["post-172778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-baseball","tag-softball","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\/172778","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=172778"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":172822,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172778\/revisions\/172822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}