{"id":139309,"date":"2021-04-13T13:10:38","date_gmt":"2021-04-13T23:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=139309"},"modified":"2021-04-13T13:11:12","modified_gmt":"2021-04-13T23:11:12","slug":"gonzales-liu-pepsi-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2021\/04\/13\/gonzales-liu-pepsi-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Gonzales, Liu are Hilo Pepsi athletes"},"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_139313\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-139313\" style=\"width: 676px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/hilo-athletics-gonzales.jpg\" alt=\"U H Hilo softball pitcher\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"size-full wp-image-139313\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/hilo-athletics-gonzales.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/hilo-athletics-gonzales-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/hilo-athletics-gonzales-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-139313\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Leah Gonzales<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Leah Gonzales<\/strong>, a softball pitcher who threw 12 innings of shutout ball, and <strong>Joshua Liu,<\/strong> a tennis player who helped clinch a win during a match between two nationally ranked teams are the <a href=\"https:\/\/hiloathletics.com\/index.aspx\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> at Hilo<\/a> Pepsi Athletes of the Week for April 8&#8211;11.<\/p>\n<p>Veteran right-hander Gonzales stepped up big for the Vulcans in the pitching circle during 5-0 and 3-0 wins over Chaminade University of Honolulu over the weekend. Gonzales pitched a complete game shutout in Sunday&#8217;s opener and came on in relief in the second game to also pick up the win. In her start, she tossed a seven-inning shutout, allowing just three hits, no walks and struck out five.<\/p>\n<p>Liu played a huge role in <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> Hilo&#8217;s 4-3 tennis win over <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> Pacific University last week on O\u02bbahu. With the team score tied at 3-3, Liu delivered the deciding point for the Vulcans with a singles victory on court five in a wild 6-7 (8-10), 6-4, 7-6 (7-1) verdict. Additionally, his doubles win on court three (6-1) with Luca Checchia helped the Vulcans secure the doubles point.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hiloathletics.com\/news\/2021\/4\/12\/mens-tennis-liu-and-gonzales-are-uhhs-pepsi-athletes-of-the-week.aspx\">Read more about Liu and Gonzales at the <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> Hilo athletics website.<\/a><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_139314\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-139314\" style=\"width: 676px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/hilo-athletics-liu-j.jpg\" alt=\"U H Hilo tennis player\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"size-full wp-image-139314\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/hilo-athletics-liu-j.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/hilo-athletics-liu-j-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/hilo-athletics-liu-j-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-139314\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joshua Liu<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tennis player Joshua Liu and softball pitcher Leah Gonzales are this week\u2019s <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> Hilo Pepsi Athletes of the Week<\/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":[58,14,151],"class_list":["post-139309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","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\/139309","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=139309"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":139321,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139309\/revisions\/139321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}