  {"id":233477,"date":"2026-05-04T15:13:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T01:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=233477"},"modified":"2026-05-04T15:23:48","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T01:23:48","slug":"softballs-mcgaughey-big-west-honor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2026\/05\/04\/softballs-mcgaughey-big-west-honor\/","title":{"rendered":"Rainbow Wahine softball\u2019s McGaughey earns Big West honor after standout series"},"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\/05\/manoa-softball-mcgaughey-weekly-honor.jpg\" alt=\"Jamie McGaughey\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-233533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/manoa-softball-mcgaughey-weekly-honor.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/manoa-softball-mcgaughey-weekly-honor-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/manoa-softball-mcgaughey-weekly-honor-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> third baseman Jamie McGaughey was named Big West Field Player of the Week after leading the Rainbow Wahine to a series sweep at <abbr title=\"University of California\">UC<\/abbr> Riverside to close the regular season, May 1&#8211;2.<\/p>\n<p>McGaughey batted .600 with three home runs, a double, six runs scored and four <abbr title=\"runs batted in\">RBI<\/abbr> over the weekend. She delivered a standout performance, hitting 4-for-4 with two home runs in the second game of the series.<\/p>\n<p>She finished the series with a 1.600 slugging percentage and .667 on-base percentage while also playing error-free defense at third base.<\/p>\n<p>The Rainbow Wahine (29-18 overall, 21-6 Big West) earned the <abbr title=\"Number\">No.<\/abbr> 2 seed in the double-elimination Big West Softball Championship at Anderson Family Field in Fullerton, California. <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">ÌÇÐÄVlog¹Ù·½<\/abbr> will play the winner of <abbr title=\"Number\">No.<\/abbr> 3 seed <abbr>UC<\/abbr> Santa Barbara <abbr title=\"versus\">vs.<\/abbr> <abbr title=\"Number\">No.<\/abbr> 6 seed <abbr>UC<\/abbr> San Diego on May 7.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/news\/2026\/5\/4\/softball-macgaugheys-power-surge-earns-her-big-west-field-player-of-the-week-honors.aspx\">Hawaiiathletics.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jamie McGaughey earned the honor after a dominant performance to close out the regular season. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":233533,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1362],"tags":[58,1527,9,550],"class_list":["post-233477","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\/05\/manoa-softball-mcgaughey-weekly-honor.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233477","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=233477"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":233545,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233477\/revisions\/233545"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}