  {"id":206058,"date":"2024-11-04T13:52:49","date_gmt":"2024-11-04T23:52:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=206058"},"modified":"2024-11-04T16:14:52","modified_gmt":"2024-11-05T02:14:52","slug":"vulcans-spot-conference-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2024\/11\/04\/vulcans-spot-conference-championships\/","title":{"rendered":"Vulcans clinch spot in inaugural women\u2019s soccer conference championships"},"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\/2024\/11\/hilo-soccer-pacwest-champ.jpg\" alt=\"u h hilo soccer team\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-206074\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/hilo-soccer-pacwest-champ.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/hilo-soccer-pacwest-champ-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/hilo-soccer-pacwest-champ-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The No. 21 University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Âé¶¹´«Ã½<\/span> at Hilo <a href=\"https:\/\/hiloathletics.com\/sports\/womens-soccer\">women\u2019s soccer team<\/a> clinched a spot in the inaugural Pacific West Conference Championships with a shutout of Fresno Pacific, 3-0, on November 2 at the Vulcan Soccer Field.<\/p>\n<p>Players Teani Arakawa, Jazlynn Ellis and Shea Christiansen scored for the Vulcans in the victory to secure <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> Hilo one of the four qualifying spots for the conference postseason tournament.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We&#8217;ve been putting in the work to put ourselves in the position we want to be to battle for another championship,&rdquo; head coach Gene Okamura said. &ldquo;The team bounced back well from our last game and now we know we&#8217;ll have much more to go, but we&#8217;ll get back to work next week and focus on preparing for Chaminade to finish the regular season.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><abbr>UH<\/abbr> Hilo moved to an 8-1-1 record in the PacWest and 11-1-3 overall. Currently, the Vulcans hold the top position in the standings with 25 points and just one match to go.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hiloathletics.com\/news\/2024\/11\/2\/womens-soccer-no-21-vulcans-blank-sunbirds-to-clinch-conference-tournament-berth.aspx\">Read more on HiloAthletics.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Vulcans occupy two of the four qualifying spots for the conference postseason tournament.<\/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":[58,911,1556,14,151],"class_list":["post-206058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-program-recognition","tag-soccer","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\/206058","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=206058"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":206091,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206058\/revisions\/206091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}