{"id":1701,"date":"2024-11-09T08:44:07","date_gmt":"2024-11-09T18:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/warriorinsider.net\/?p=1701"},"modified":"2024-11-10T08:15:16","modified_gmt":"2024-11-10T18:15:16","slug":"warriors-rout-life-pacific-in-opener-96-61","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/warriorinsider.net\/index.php\/2024\/11\/09\/warriors-rout-life-pacific-in-opener-96-61\/","title":{"rendered":"Warriors rout Life Pacific; face San Jose next"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/warriorinsider.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Akira-season-opener-683x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1702\" style=\"aspect-ratio:0.6669921875;width:818px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/warriorinsider.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Akira-season-opener-683x1024.jpeg 683w, https:\/\/warriorinsider.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Akira-season-opener-200x300.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/warriorinsider.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Akira-season-opener-768x1152.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/warriorinsider.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Akira-season-opener-1024x1536.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/warriorinsider.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Akira-season-opener-1365x2048.jpeg 1365w, https:\/\/warriorinsider.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Akira-season-opener-scaled.jpeg 1707w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Akira Jacobs scored a game-high 20 points Friday night to help Hawai&#8217;i blow past Life Pacific in the season opener. (Chris Kadooka photo).<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Akira Jacobs scored 20 points grabbed seven rebounds and Gytis Nemeiska added 14 points and nine boards Friday night to help Hawai&#8217;i rout visiting Life Pacific, 96-61, in its 2024-25 season opener.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An announced crowd of 4,221 in SimpliFi Arena at the Stan Sheriff Center watched Kody Williams add 14 points, three assists and two rebounds in the first-round victory of the OUTRIGGER Rainbow Classic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Life Pacific, a tiny (500+ students) NAIA college located in San Dimas, Calif. (about 25 miles north of Disneyland) fell to 0-2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>LPU did lead, 10-9 after the game&#8217;s first three minutes, but Jacobs drained a 3-pointer with 16:31 remaning in the first half to ignite an 18-2 run capped by Jerome Palm&#8217;s layup four minutes later for a 27-12 advantage. The Rainbow Warriors later ended the half with a 12-2 surge to lead 56-29 at the break.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hawai&#8217;i next faces San Jose State (0-2) at 5 p.m. Sunday as the Rainbow Classic moves into its second day. The Spartans lost their opener to Pacifc on Friday, 80-67. Guard Josh Ujude led San Jose State with 15 points and five rebounds, backcourt mate Will McClendon added 14 ppoints and center Robert Vaihola contributed 12 points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Spartans <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Akira Jacobs scored 20 points grabbed seven rebounds and Gytis Nemeiska added 14 points and nine boards Friday night to help Hawai&#8217;i rout visiting Life Pacific, 96-61, in its 2024-25 season opener. An announced crowd of 4,221 in SimpliFi Arena at the Stan Sheriff Center watched Kody Williams add 14 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/warriorinsider.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1701"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/warriorinsider.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/warriorinsider.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/warriorinsider.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/warriorinsider.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1701"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/warriorinsider.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1718,"href":"https:\/\/warriorinsider.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1701\/revisions\/1718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/warriorinsider.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/warriorinsider.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/warriorinsider.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}