{"id":177069,"date":"2023-05-05T11:54:53","date_gmt":"2023-05-05T21:54:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=177069"},"modified":"2023-05-05T11:54:53","modified_gmt":"2023-05-05T21:54:53","slug":"favela-pacwest-defender-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2023\/05\/05\/favela-pacwest-defender-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Favela named <abbr>PacWest<\/abbr> softball Defender of the Year"},"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\/2023\/05\/hilo-athletics-favela-defender-of-the-year.jpg\" alt=\"Trinity Favela playing softball\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-177068\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/hilo-athletics-favela-defender-of-the-year.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/hilo-athletics-favela-defender-of-the-year-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/hilo-athletics-favela-defender-of-the-year-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> at Hilo <a href=\"https:\/\/hiloathletics.com\/sports\/softball\">softball<\/a> player Trinity Favela snagged the 2023 Pacific West Conference Softball Defender of the Year award. The fifth-year senior second baseman is the only Vulcan to receive All-<abbr>PacWest<\/abbr> distinction.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/hilo-athletics-favela-defender-of-the-year-vertical-242x300.jpg\" alt=\"Favela defender of the year graphic\" width=\"242\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-177066\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/hilo-athletics-favela-defender-of-the-year-vertical-242x300.jpg 242w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/hilo-athletics-favela-defender-of-the-year-vertical-105x130.jpg 105w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/hilo-athletics-favela-defender-of-the-year-vertical.jpg 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 242px) 100vw, 242px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In the Vulcans&#8217; 27 <abbr>PacWest<\/abbr> conference contests, Favela held a 1.000 fielding percentage on 69 putouts and 60 assists. The <span aria-label=\"Ewa\">&#699;Ewa<\/span> Beach native was also involved in 13 of the team&#8217;s 19 total double plays during the conference season.<\/p>\n<p>During conference play, Favela had the 17th-most chances (129) with the seventh-most assists (60) and 17th-most putouts (69), and was the only non-catcher or non-first baseman within those top seven or top 17 without a defensive error.<\/p>\n<p>Favela finished the final 33 games of her career without a single error in 153 chances.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/hiloathletics.com\/news\/2023\/5\/2\/softball-trinity-favela-snags-top-pacwest-conference-award.aspx\">hiloathletics.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Vulcans&#8217; 27 <abbr>PacWest<\/abbr> conference contests, Favela held a 1.000 fielding percentage on 69 putouts and 60 assists.<\/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":[58,1527,660,14,151],"class_list":["post-177069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-softball","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\/177069","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=177069"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":177085,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177069\/revisions\/177085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}