  {"id":89784,"date":"2019-01-24T11:02:07","date_gmt":"2019-01-24T21:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=89784"},"modified":"2019-01-24T15:17:00","modified_gmt":"2019-01-25T01:17:00","slug":"hilo-student-athlete-recognition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2019\/01\/24\/hilo-student-athlete-recognition\/","title":{"rendered":"Top <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> Hilo athletes score big numbers"},"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_89788\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-89788\" style=\"width: 676px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/hilo-james-griffin-student-athelete.jpg\" alt=\"students playing basketball\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"size-full wp-image-89788\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/hilo-james-griffin-student-athelete.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/hilo-james-griffin-student-athelete-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-89788\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">James Griffin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Big scoring numbers in basketball were a common thread for the <a href=\"https:\/\/hilo.hawaii.edu\/\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Âé¶¹´«Ã½<\/span> at Hilo<\/a>\u2019s Pepsi Athletes of the Week, <strong>James Griffin<\/strong> and <strong>Allie Navarette<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h2>James Griffin<\/h2>\n<p>Griffin helped lead a comeback in a near upset against Point Loma on Saturday. He had a season-high of 25 points, hitting six three-pointers with four in the final three minutes as the <abbr>UH<\/abbr> Hilo Vulcans rallied from a 31-point deficit cutting the margin down to three.<\/p>\n<p>Griffin scored 18 points and pulled down seven rebounds against Concordia and added 22 points and seven boards in a win over <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Âé¶¹´«Ã½<\/span> Pacific. For the week, he scored 65 points, averaging 21.7 per game.<\/p>\n<h2>Allie Navarette<\/h2>\n<p>Scoring, rebounding and bullseye marksmanship at the free throw line paved the way for Navarette. The sophomore inside player had 26 points against Point Loma, 25 against Concordia and 18 against <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Âé¶¹´«Ã½<\/span> Pacific, racking up 69 points for the week. She had double-doubles against the Eagles (14 rebounds) and Sea Lions (13 boards) for a total of 31 rebounds in three games.<\/p>\n<p>Most impressive was her ability to take advantage of opportunities at the free throw line. Navarette hit 14 of 15 against <abbr title=\"Point Loma Nazarene University\">PLNU<\/abbr>, 10 of 10 against Concordia and was 7 of 9 against the Sharks for 91 percent accuracy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hiloathletics.com\/news\/2019\/1\/21\/mens-basketball-pepsi-athletes-of-the-week-are-griffin-navarette.aspx\">For more go to <abbr>UH<\/abbr> Hilo athletics<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_89820\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-89820\" style=\"width: 676px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/hilo-athlete-allie-naverette.jpg\" alt=\"student playing basketball\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"size-full wp-image-89820\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/hilo-athlete-allie-naverette.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/hilo-athlete-allie-naverette-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-89820\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Allie Navarette<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Big scoring numbers in basketball were a common thread for the University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Âé¶¹´«Ã½<\/span> at Hilo\u2019s Pepsi Athletes of the Week, James Griffin and Allie Navarette.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1362],"tags":[82,660,714,14,151],"class_list":["post-89784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-basketball","tag-student-recognition","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\/89784","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=89784"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89821,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89784\/revisions\/89821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}