HILO — UH-Hilo Vulcans softball will have a 49-game slate for the upcoming 2025 season, including 18 home contests at the on-campus Vulcan Softball Field.
HILO — UH-Hilo Vulcans softball will have a 49-game slate for the upcoming 2025 season, including 18 home contests at the on-campus Vulcan Softball Field.
The addition of three new members to the PacWest Conference (Jessup, Menlo and Vanguard) at the beginning of the 2024-25 school year has dawned an altered conference lineup with all PacWest series now three games instead of four for the three Hawai’i schools. UH-Hilo, Chaminade and HPU will play one another six teams during conference play.
After opening the season with the annual Alumni Game on Jan. 25 (of which fourth-year head coach Aisha Sueda ‘13 is a regular participant), the Vulcans will take a trip up to Irvine, California for the Concordia Kickoff Classic (Jan. 31 – Feb. 2).
The first home game is set for Feb. 26-27 against HPU, but UH-Hilo will have 11 contests on O’ahu through most of the month of February taking part of the Ulili Softball Invitational (Feb. 6-7) with other non-conference matchups set against Cal Poly Humboldt (Feb. 8) and Western Washington (Feb. 15). Eight of the Vulcans’ non-conference foes enter the season having a wealth of postseason experience in 2024, highlighted by Western Washington’s NCAA National Championship Runner-Up finish along with deep runs by Cal State Dominguez Hills, Lewis University (Illinois) and Cal State San Marcos. Newcomer Jessup is also coming off a NAIA World Series Runner-Up finish.
The Vulcans will host three-game PacWest Conference series against HPU, defending PacWest Champion Concordia (March 1-2), Azusa Pacific (March 7-8), Vanguard (April 4-5), Biola (April 11-12) and Chaminade (April 18-19). UH-Hilo will travel to Northern California to take on Academy of Art (March 14-15), Jessup (March 17-18), Dominican (March 21-22) and Menlo (March 24-25) before closing out the regular season on O’ahu against HPU (April 25-26).
The four-team PacWest Championships postseason tournament is set for Apr. 30 to May 2 in Irvine, Calif.
UH-Hilo posted a 26-17 record in 2024 with a third-place finish in the PacWest Tournament.
