{"id":215912,"date":"2025-05-13T16:39:52","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T02:39:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=215912"},"modified":"2025-05-13T16:39:52","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T02:39:52","slug":"hilo-cook-all-pacwest-honors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2025\/05\/13\/hilo-cook-all-pacwest-honors\/","title":{"rendered":"<abbr>UH<\/abbr> Hilo baseball catcher earns All-PacWest honors"},"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><figure id=\"attachment_215895\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-215895\" style=\"width: 676px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/hilo-athletics-2025-all-pacwest-team.png\" alt=\"Mason Cook catching ball\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"size-full wp-image-215895\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/hilo-athletics-2025-all-pacwest-team.png 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/hilo-athletics-2025-all-pacwest-team-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/hilo-athletics-2025-all-pacwest-team-130x73.png 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-215895\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mason Cook<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at Hilo <a href=\"https:\/\/hiloathletics.com\/sports\/baseball\">baseball<\/a> catcher Mason Cook was named to the All-Pacific West Conference Third Team.<\/p>\n<p>The native of Farmington, Utah, posted team-high stats of a .317 batting average, .947 <abbr>OPS<\/abbr>, .524 slugging and .423 on-base percentage in the PacWest Conference. For the season, Cook finished hitting .333.<\/p>\n<p>Defensively, Cook committed just one error, had one passed ball behind the plate and threw out five runners attempting to steal.<\/p>\n<p>Cook was the only Vulcan voted as an All-PacWest Team selection. He will graduate this spring with a bachelor&#8217;s in kinesiology and exercise sciences.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/hiloathletics.com\/news\/2025\/5\/6\/baseball-cook-selected-to-all-pacwest-team.aspx\">Hiloathletics.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mason Cook was named to the All-PacWest Conference Third Team.<\/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":[58,1491,714,14,151],"class_list":["post-215912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-baseball","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\/215912","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=215912"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":215921,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215912\/revisions\/215921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}