{"id":231155,"date":"2026-03-23T16:40:57","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T02:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=231155"},"modified":"2026-03-23T16:40:57","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T02:40:57","slug":"manoa-softball-irimata-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2026\/03\/23\/manoa-softball-irimata-award\/","title":{"rendered":"<abbr>UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa softball\u2019s Irimata dominates Long Beach, earns 2nd Pitcher of the Week award"},"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\/03\/manoa-softball-irimata-award.jpg\" alt=\"Big West Pitcher of the Week Taryn Irimata graphic\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-231153\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/manoa-softball-irimata-award.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/manoa-softball-irimata-award-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/manoa-softball-irimata-award-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 softball player Taryn Irimata was selected as the Big West Pitcher of the Week after earning two wins and posting a perfect 0.00 <abbr>ERA<\/abbr> against Long Beach State March 20\u201321.<\/p>\n<p>This marks the second weekly conference honor of Irimata&#8217;s career, after earning the accolade for the first time in the first week of the 2026 season.<\/p>\n<p>In both games, Irimata held Long Beach State scoreless across 10 innings, allowing just two hits, while issuing six walks and striking out four.<\/p>\n<p><abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa will face California State University, Northridge in a three-game series beginning on March 27 at the Rainbow Wahine Softball Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/news\/2026\/3\/23\/softball-irimata-selected-as-big-west-pitcher-of-the-week.aspx\">Hawaiiathletics.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taryn Irimata led the Rainbow Wahine softball team to back-to-back road victories over Long Beach State.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":231153,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1362],"tags":[58,1527,9,550],"class_list":["post-231155","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\/03\/manoa-softball-irimata-award.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231155","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=231155"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":231167,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231155\/revisions\/231167"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}