Slaats, Grimes earn WAC honors

Hawaii baseball pitcher Josh Slaats and softball catcher Katie Grimes were announced as winners for Western Athletic Conference weekly honors yesterday.

Slaats got his third WAC pitcher of the week award, and Grimes was named WAC hitter of the week in softball.

Slaats allowed one hit and one walk with a career-high 10 strikeouts in seven innings in a victory over Gonzaga last Friday. He is now 3-1 with a 1.03 ERA.

Grimes drove in eight runs with three home runs and batted .556 with a 1.667 slugging percentage as UH swept a three-game series at New Mexico State.

UH drops 1 spot in volleyball poll

Despite two wins last week and picking up a first-place vote for the first time this season, Hawaii dropped a spot to No. 5 in today's AVCA Coaches Division I-II Men's Volleyball Top 15 yesterday.

The Warriors, who clinched their first league playoff berth since 2007, defeated UC San Diego twice last week.

Stanford remained at No. 1, although the Cardinal went from being a unanimous choice to receiving 11 votes. Brigham Young, which moved into a tie with Stanford for the lead in the MPSF, jumped from third to second. The Cougars received three first-place votes.

PacWest honors 3 Vulcans

Hawaii-Hilo's Bryanna Hardy, Keoni Manago and Chris Pascual earned Pacific West Conference honors yesterday.

Hardy led the Vulcans to two softball wins last week by going 5-for-6 with four RBIs, a double and a homer.

Manago led UHH to a four-game baseball sweep of Academy of Art. He went 13-for-19 with 15 RBIs.

Pascual pitched a complete-game win, allowing three hits and one unearned run and striking out six in a baseball win over the Urban Knights.