  {"id":232204,"date":"2026-04-14T14:53:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T00:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=232204"},"modified":"2026-04-14T14:53:48","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T00:53:48","slug":"wahine-softball-sweep-weekly-honors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2026\/04\/14\/wahine-softball-sweep-weekly-honors\/","title":{"rendered":"Wahine softball\u2019s McGaughey, Irimata sweep Big West weekly honors"},"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\/2026\/04\/manoa-softball-conference-awards.jpg\" alt=\"Jamie McGaughey and Taryn Irimata \" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-232209\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/manoa-softball-conference-awards.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/manoa-softball-conference-awards-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/manoa-softball-conference-awards-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>University of <span lang=\"haw\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> at M\u0101noa <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/sports\/softball\">softball<\/a> standouts Jamie McGaughey and Taryn Irimata swept Big West Conference weekly honors, earning Field Player and Pitcher of the Week, respectively, after a dominant series against Cal State Bakersfield Roadrunners, April 10&#8211;11.<\/p>\n<p>McGaughey powered the Rainbow Wahine\u2019s offense, batting .667 with two home runs, two doubles and nine <abbr title=\"runs batted in\">RBI<\/abbr> across the three-game sweep. She opened the weekend with a two-run home run and later delivered a three-run double in a 10\u20138 game one win.<\/p>\n<p>Irimata was equally dominant, throwing back-to-back complete-game shutouts. She posted a 0.00 <abbr title=\"earned run average\">ERA<\/abbr> over 10 innings, allowing just four hits while holding opponents to a .118 batting average.<\/p>\n<p>The weekly honor marks the first of McGaughey\u2019s career and the third this season for Irimata, who continues to anchor a <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">ÌÇÐÄVlog¹Ù·½<\/abbr> pitching staff that has claimed half of the conference\u2019s weekly awards so far this year.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/news\/2026\/4\/13\/softball-mcgaughey-irimata-earn-big-west-weekly-awards.aspx\"> Hawaiiathletics.com.<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a dominant series sweep of the Cal State Bakersfield Roadrunners, Jamie McGaughey and Taryn Irimata earned Field Player and Pitcher of the Week recognition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":232209,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1362],"tags":[58,1527,9,550],"class_list":["post-232204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-softball","tag-uh-manoa","tag-manoa-athletics","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/manoa-softball-conference-awards.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232204","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=232204"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":232281,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232204\/revisions\/232281"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}