{"id":230632,"date":"2026-03-10T15:40:31","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T01:40:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=230632"},"modified":"2026-03-10T15:40:31","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T01:40:31","slug":"manoa-softball-pitcher-honor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2026\/03\/10\/manoa-softball-pitcher-honor\/","title":{"rendered":"Rainbow Wahine softball player pitches shutout, earns Big West honor"},"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\/2026\/03\/manoa-softball-pitts-award.jpg\" alt=\"Big West Pitcher of the Week Hannah Pitts sports graphic\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-230629\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/manoa-softball-pitts-award.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/manoa-softball-pitts-award-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/manoa-softball-pitts-award-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>University of <span lang=\"haw\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M\u0101noa softball pitcher Hannah Pitts earned her first Big West Pitcher of the Week award on March 9 following a pair of road wins at <abbr title=\"University of California\">UC<\/abbr> Davis.<\/p>\n<p>The senior posted a 0.54 <abbr>ERA<\/abbr>, allowing just one run in 13 innings, while holding the Aggies to a .149 batting average.<\/p>\n<p>In the series opener, Pitts recorded her first shutout as a Rainbow Wahine. In the series finale, Pitts earned her second win of the series, allowing just one run in six innings as the Rainbow Wahine defeated <abbr>UC<\/abbr> Davis 9\u20131.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, Pitts has a team-low 2.66 <abbr>ERA<\/abbr> in 12 appearances and seven starts. She has thrown a team-high 52.2 innings with five walks and 28 strikeouts.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/news\/2026\/3\/9\/softball-pitts-named-big-west-pitcher-of-the-week.aspx\">Hawaiiathletics.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><abbr>UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa\u2019s Hannah Pitts earned her first Big West Pitcher of the Week award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":230629,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1362],"tags":[58,1527,9,550],"class_list":["post-230632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-softball","tag-uh-manoa","tag-manoa-athletics","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/manoa-softball-pitts-award.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230632","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=230632"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":230656,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230632\/revisions\/230656"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}