  {"id":138070,"date":"2021-03-29T16:33:25","date_gmt":"2021-03-30T02:33:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=138070"},"modified":"2021-03-29T16:33:25","modified_gmt":"2021-03-30T02:33:25","slug":"alcorn-scudder-pepsi-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2021\/03\/29\/alcorn-scudder-pepsi-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Vulcan lefties earn Pepsi Players of the Week recognitions"},"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_138069\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-138069\" style=\"width: 676px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/hilo-athletics-scudder-c.png\" alt=\"U H Hilo pitcher\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"size-full wp-image-138069\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/hilo-athletics-scudder-c.png 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/hilo-athletics-scudder-c-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/hilo-athletics-scudder-c-130x73.png 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-138069\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cameron Scudder<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A pair of left-handed pitchers&#8212;<strong>Cameron Scudder<\/strong> and <strong>Kyle Alcorn<\/strong>&#8212;are winners of this week\u2019s University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> at Hilo Pepsi Athlete of the Week awards for their work on the mound against <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> Pacific University (<abbr>HPU<\/abbr>) in Hilo.<\/p>\n<p>Scudder was electric in his <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> Island debut on Sunday against the Sharks. He settled in to fan 11 <abbr>HPU<\/abbr> batters in just 5.2 innings of work. He gave up one unearned run in the first inning but struck out the side in the second and third innings. He didn\u2019t get the win or the loss, but posted the most strikeouts by a Vulcan pitcher since Travis Burleson in 2018 and Jordan Kurokawa in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Senior pitcher Alcorn was more than gritty during a series-opening 8-1 win over <abbr>HPU<\/abbr> on Saturday. He pitched seven innings (102 pitches), allowed only four hits and no earned runs, walked two and struck out three. He earned the win to improve to 1-1 on the season. Alcorn\u2019s 1.86 ERA is tops among Vulcan starters.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hiloathletics.com\/news\/2021\/3\/29\/mens-baseball-vulcan-lefties-earn-pepsi-players-of-the-week.aspx\">Read more at <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">ÌÇÐÄVlog¹Ù·½<\/abbr> Hilo&#8217;s athletics website.<\/a><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_138068\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-138068\" style=\"width: 676px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/hilo-athletics-alcorn-k.jpg\" alt=\"U H Hilo pitcher\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"size-full wp-image-138068\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/hilo-athletics-alcorn-k.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/hilo-athletics-alcorn-k-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/hilo-athletics-alcorn-k-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-138068\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kyle Alcorn<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cameron Scudder and Kyle Alcorn are this week\u2019s <abbr>ÌÇÐÄVlog¹Ù·½<\/abbr> Hilo Pepsi Athletes of the Week for their work on the mound against <abbr>HPU<\/abbr>.<\/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":[58,660,14,151],"class_list":["post-138070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-student-recognition","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\/138070","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=138070"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":138073,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138070\/revisions\/138073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}