{"id":214751,"date":"2025-04-29T16:15:11","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T02:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=214751"},"modified":"2025-04-29T16:15:11","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T02:15:11","slug":"uh-hilo-mens-golf-pacwest-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2025\/04\/29\/uh-hilo-mens-golf-pacwest-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"<abbr>UH<\/abbr> Hilo men\u2019s golf earns 3rd PacWest Championship"},"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\/2025\/04\/hilo-ahtletics-golf-2025-pacwest-champions.jpg\" alt=\"U H Hilo golf team and coach holding trophy\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-214797\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/hilo-ahtletics-golf-2025-pacwest-champions.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/hilo-ahtletics-golf-2025-pacwest-champions-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/hilo-ahtletics-golf-2025-pacwest-champions-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at Hilo\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/hiloathletics.com\/sports\/mens-golf\">men\u2019s golf team<\/a> captured its third consecutive Pacific West Conference Championship on April 23, at the Aliante Golf Club in Las Vegas, Nevada.<\/p>\n<p>Leading the way was Dylan Bercan, who also captured the individual tournament championship. The redshirt senior from Vancouver, British Columbia carded a seven-under score over the three-day tournament to tie for the lead forcing a playoff. Bercan edged Jessup\u2019s Michael Sorber in the playoff to become the sixth Vulcan to claim an individual win at the PacWest Championships.<\/p>\n<p>Katsuhiro Yamashita and Jacob Torres landed at No. 4 and No. 9 place, respectively, helping <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> Hilo erase a two-shot deficit and overtake <abbr title=\"Hawaii Pacific University\">HPU<\/abbr>in the final round. The Vulcans were the only team under par in round 3, finishing at seven-under overall, good for an eight-shot win.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hiloathletics.com\/news\/2025\/4\/23\/mens-golf-bercan-vulcans-on-top-as-pacwest-conference-champions.aspx\">Read more on HiloAthletics.com.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dylan Bercan\u2019s clutch par on the 18th hole helped secure the title, while Katsuhiro Yamashita and Jacob Torres played pivotal roles in the final round comeback.<\/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":[58,1537,911,14,151],"class_list":["post-214751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-golf","tag-program-recognition","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\/214751","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=214751"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":214799,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214751\/revisions\/214799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}