{"id":173893,"date":"2023-03-10T11:23:34","date_gmt":"2023-03-10T21:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=173893"},"modified":"2023-03-10T11:23:34","modified_gmt":"2023-03-10T21:23:34","slug":"osaki-velarde-kta-superstars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2023\/03\/10\/osaki-velarde-kta-superstars\/","title":{"rendered":"Osaki, Velarde 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 women\u2019s tennis<\/a> player Hikari Osaki<\/strong> and baseball<\/a> player Eamon Velarde<\/strong> earned KTA<\/abbr> Super Stores Superstars of the Week awards for February 22–March 7.<\/p>\n

In the Vulcans’ trip to northern California at the end of February, Osaki continued her dominant singles play out of the four-spot with a 6-0, 6-0 win to help UH<\/abbr> Hilo to a narrow 4-3 victory over Dominican University on February 27, followed by a 6-0, 6-2 singles win against Academy of Art University on February 28.<\/p>\n

Velarde nabbed three wins in three consecutive pitching appearances for victories over Concordia University Irvine (CUI<\/abbr>), Biola University and No. 11 Point Loma Nazarene University (PLNU<\/abbr>). He got the start against CUI<\/abbr> and PLNU<\/abbr>, and entered in the fifth inning against Biola.<\/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

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

UH<\/abbr> Hilo women\u2019s tennis player Hikari Osaki and baseball player Eamon Velarde were named KTA<\/abbr> Super Stores Superstars of the Week, February 22–March 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":[58,1491,660,714,1365,14,151],"class_list":["post-173893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-baseball","tag-student-recognition","tag-student-athlete","tag-tennis","tag-uh-hilo","tag-hilo-athletics","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t