{"id":216439,"date":"2025-05-21T13:37:41","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T23:37:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=216439"},"modified":"2025-05-21T13:59:24","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T23:59:24","slug":"warrior-baseball-players-earn-all-big-west-honors-walls-named-freshman-pitcher-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2025\/05\/21\/warrior-baseball-players-earn-all-big-west-honors-walls-named-freshman-pitcher-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Warrior baseball players earn All-Big West honors, Walls named Freshman Pitcher of the Year"},"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><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/manoa-athletics-baseball-all-bw.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/manoa-athletics-baseball-all-bw.jpg\" alt=\"U H baseball players, All-Big West graphic\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-216470\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/manoa-athletics-baseball-all-bw.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/manoa-athletics-baseball-all-bw-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/manoa-athletics-baseball-all-bw-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Five <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/sports\/baseball\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M\u0101noa baseball<\/a> players earned All-Big West postseason honors, including Cooper Walls, who was named Big West Freshman Pitcher of the Year &#8212; only the second Rainbow Warrior Baseball player ever to receive the award.<\/p>\n<p>First Team All-Big West:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Isaiah Magdaleno: 4-1, 2.68 <abbr title=\"Earned Run Average\">ERA<\/abbr>, 71 strikeouts<\/li>\n<li>Itsuki Takemoto: .267 batting average, 66.1 innings pitched, 21 <abbr title=\"Runs batted in\">RBIs<\/abbr><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Second Team All-Big West:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Matthew Miura: .327 <abbr title=\"Average\">avg<\/abbr>, 47 runs, Big West leader with 44 walks<\/li>\n<li>Ben Zeigler-Namoa: Team-best .333 <abbr>avg<\/abbr>, 46 <abbr>RBIs<\/abbr>, 16 doubles<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Honorable Mention:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cooper Walls: 3.67 <abbr>ERA<\/abbr>, 3-3 record, 44 strikeouts. Threw shutout performances against <abbr title=\"University of California\">UC<\/abbr> Santa Barbara and Oregon State<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This is the first time since 2018 that <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> has had four players earn first or second-team honors.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/news\/2025\/5\/20\/baseball-five-rainbow-warriors-earn-big-west-postseason-honors.aspx\">Hawaiiathletics.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is only the second time a Rainbow Warrior has earned the Freshman Pitcher of the Year award.<\/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":[58,1491,9,550],"class_list":["post-216439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-baseball","tag-uh-manoa","tag-manoa-athletics","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216439","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=216439"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":216487,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216439\/revisions\/216487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}