{"id":233821,"date":"2026-05-07T13:07:39","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T23:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=233821"},"modified":"2026-05-07T13:07:39","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T23:07:39","slug":"hilo-saucedo-regional-honors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2026\/05\/07\/hilo-saucedo-regional-honors\/","title":{"rendered":"Â鶹´«Ã½Hilo\u2019s Saucedo earns pitcher of the week regional honors"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>

\"Blake<\/p>\n

University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at Hilo pitcher Blake Saucedo has been named the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association Division II<\/abbr> West Region Pitcher of the Week following his nine-inning complete-game shutout performance in a 3\u20130 victory over Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Pacific University (HPU<\/abbr>), May 1.<\/p>\n

Saucedo made his second start of the season in the series-opening game against HPU<\/abbr>, tossing all nine innings with six hits, two walks and four hit batsmen surrendered while striking out seven batters.<\/p>\n

“It’s just the best outing I’ve had in my career for sure,” Saucedo said. “I finished the sixth inning and was like, ‘Okay, let me get seven for a quality start,’ and then I was like, ‘Okay, let me go to eight.’ I struck out the side in the eighth. I was like, ‘Why not one more?’ The coaches asked me how I was feeling—I was like, ‘Coach, you don’t even gotta ask me. I’m ready to go.’”<\/p>\n

Saucedo was also selected as the Pacific West Conference Pitcher of the Week for the final week of the regular season.<\/p>\n

Read more at Hiloathletics.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Blake Saucedo was recognized for leading the Vulcans to a victory over HPU<\/abbr> with a complete-game shutout.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":233819,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1362],"tags":[58,1491,14,151],"class_list":["post-233821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-baseball","tag-uh-hilo","tag-hilo-athletics","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/hilo-bsb-saucedo-regional-honors.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233821","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=233821"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":233846,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233821\/revisions\/233846"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}